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Post by aquin43 on Jun 2, 2020 5:54:46 GMT -5
What if there were a weaker magnetic attraction between the string and the pickup? People talk about sustain suffering as a result of magnetic pull, but it might just be that the transient amplitude is lower with less magnetic pull (if any effect really exists at all). it might be possible that a stronger magnetic pull promotes a more vertical and elliptical movement pattern when the string isat maximum displacement, and gradually tends towards a more averaged, circular movement, where as a weaker magnetic pull causes less interference, resulting in the more circular pattern from the beginning. If that's the case, my idea of mounting the pickups side by side under the same string wound be invalid, since the effects of magnetic pull on the strings wouldn't be isolated to each pickup's output. The only known effect of a magnetic field on a string is a large non-linear field causing mode splitting which I think you observed in an experiment in another thread.
The compression we were speculating about would be in the transfer function of the pickup, not in the string motion. It would have to be large to be audible and should be easy to spot using the method you suggested.
Arthur
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Post by antigua on Jun 2, 2020 11:09:14 GMT -5
What if there were a weaker magnetic attraction between the string and the pickup? People talk about sustain suffering as a result of magnetic pull, but it might just be that the transient amplitude is lower with less magnetic pull (if any effect really exists at all). it might be possible that a stronger magnetic pull promotes a more vertical and elliptical movement pattern when the string isat maximum displacement, and gradually tends towards a more averaged, circular movement, where as a weaker magnetic pull causes less interference, resulting in the more circular pattern from the beginning. If that's the case, my idea of mounting the pickups side by side under the same string wound be invalid, since the effects of magnetic pull on the strings wouldn't be isolated to each pickup's output. The only known effect of a magnetic field on a string is a large non-linear field causing mode splitting which I think you observed in an experiment in another thread.
The compression we were speculating about would be in the transfer function of the pickup, not in the string motion. It would have to be large to be audible and should be easy to spot using the method you suggested.
Arthur
I understand that but I'll looks for compression anywhere I can find it, including the guitar string's physical nature, in order to put some sort of semblance of fact, or not, behind such claims as "Lace Sensors sound compresses". If it were true that a strong magnetic field caused the string to move in such a way that caused a perceived increased dynamic range, or anti-compression, then it would mean Lace Sensors are no more special in this regard to other pickups with a weak magnetic field, such as single coil sized rail humbuckers. People tend to hear with their eyes too, which might make people more prone scrutinize pickups with solid covers differently that ones with exposed cores / pole pieces.
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