Tom.Whitwell
Guitar Pickup Simulator
Simple passive circuit in a 1590a box.
Circuit comes from this article by Jack Orman: www.muzique.com/lab/pickups.htm
It's half a 10k audio transformer (a Triad TY-141P), a standard guitar volume/tone circuit with orange drop .1uf cap, then a 10ohm carbon comp cap and a 470pf cap to simulate a long cable run.
Basically, it rolls off some top end, but also makes the impedance of whatever source you plug it into a bit more like a guitar pickup.
So, synths sound better through stompboxes, particularly finickity fuzz boxes. It's also a bit like a DI box...
The switch selects no/half/full transformer coils. A bit like single coil v humbucker pickups.
Guitar Pickup Simulator
Simple passive circuit in a 1590a box.
Circuit comes from this article by Jack Orman: www.muzique.com/lab/pickups.htm
It's half a 10k audio transformer (a Triad TY-141P), a standard guitar volume/tone circuit with orange drop .1uf cap, then a 10ohm carbon comp cap and a 470pf cap to simulate a long cable run.
Basically, it rolls off some top end, but also makes the impedance of whatever source you plug it into a bit more like a guitar pickup.
So, synths sound better through stompboxes, particularly finickity fuzz boxes. It's also a bit like a DI box...
The switch selects no/half/full transformer coils. A bit like single coil v humbucker pickups.