Gareth Edwards wrote: >>> I wish I had a real oscilloscope to find out what my guitar is really >>> putting out
An old Tek oscilloscope ($100) and a FET input probe ($50) would show you a lot. join [email protected] to find out more. > > Unless you are building a pickup, don't get too hung up on modelling > it - it's a complex and changing impedance across frequency (stray and > interwinding capacitance, leakage inductance, DC resistance etc) and > the unit-to-unit variation in impedance and output voltage is large. > You've already spotted that cable capacitance plays a part - the tone > and volume controls loading the pickup are probably just as important. That's where all those Hendrix effects of bending the guitar neck get "picked up". The whole guitar is a sensor. JG -- Ecosensory Austin TX _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
