DIY double output pickup system

[ouchiehour]

Hi. I've been playing with different iterations of a stereo pickup. It is really wonderful for playing rhythm and chords through fuzz.

Every other string gets sent to the left or right output. So you can process it through two effect chains. This isn't going to win over any traditionalists, but possibly effect obsessives will like it.

It can function like a clean blend, but way crisper.

This is what is sounds and plays like:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FX6G3oChAE[/youtube]

Anyone interested in documentation? I can throw together diy details in a PDF. Still haven't tested with a 6 string instrument but there shouldn't be a problem with it.

[Chankgeez]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FX6G3oChAE

Interesting sounding stuff.

Quote my post to see how I embedded your video.

[ouchiehour]

I see the trick now! Thank you

[Chankgeez]

[crochambeau]

I'd love to peruse your documentation.

I want to roll a hex pickup at some point and getting other ideas on how to go about it isn't a bad thing.

[Ben79]

Wow, I love it. What a great idea. Nice video. Made me think about the Os Mutantes guy who I seem to remember had an individual pickup for each string.
I would like to have a go at this.

[ouchiehour]

Yay!!

I've got casual instructions and humbucker templates up on my site now: https://sympathykeyroom.com/duo.html

I'll post updates once I've tested six string versions. by then I'll have comments on whether the tighter spacing is fine. Hopefully narrower spacing plus single magnet per coil will be a sweet spot.

[eatyourguitar]

Wow, I love it. What a great idea. Nice video. Made me think about the Os Mutantes guy who I seem to remember had an individual pickup for each string.
I would like to have a go at this.

yes. he has a hexaphonic pickup and a hexaphonic fuzz. you can get the fuzz pcb right now online but you would need to build 6 of them. here is the passive pickup.

http://www.ubertar.com/hexaphonic/products.html

[ouchiehour]

Personally, hexaphonic looks like a handful.

The nice thing about splitting just every other string, is you still get some interaction between intervals. You can play a four note chord and have as much mud as you'd get with playing two double stops in separate takes. You get some nice crunch and a fully voiced chord. In some hex fuzz demos I've heard, the sound is a little synth-like because it's so clean.

In fairness though, hex fuzz sounds gorgeous.

[$harkToootth]

I saw this thread like a month ago and have wanted to comment how cool it is. I need to implement something like this. It would be cool if you had two outputs and a rotary knob or something of different combinations of strings with some LED indicator of which strings are going to which output. I'm not the guy to figure that out.

EDIT 1: Or clunky binary switches per string (sending that string to either output 1 or 2). No LED indicator needed in that case (but it would look cool).