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- From: jpmakela@klaava.Helsinki.FI (J Pekka Makela)
- Subject: Re: single coil hum cancelling idea...opinions?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.224014.9045@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:40:14 GMT
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- >
- > Recently, I bought a Strat Elite and opened it up to take a look at the
- > guts of the thing. Lo and behold, there was a fourth pickup in it!
- > This one had no polepieces, and was just stuck there under the pickguard.
- > I gathered from the low noise of the guitar that it was reverse wound,
- > reverse polarity, and always connected to the output--in this way, it helps
- > reduce hum quite a bit.
- >
- > Yes, it's called a "Dummy Pickup" and it was an advertised feature of the
- > Strat Elite. The first instrument that I know of to incorporate a dummy
- > pickup is the Alembic bass.
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-
- I've seen some Paul Reed Smith basses with a dummy pickup on the
- *underside* of the body (that is, there where the thing touches
- your belly); that way the dummy don't affect the actual sound,
- it just cancels hum.
- >
- --
- jP M{kel{ ({'s are a's with umlauts) jpmakela@cc.Helsinki.fi
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