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    Pickup on rails? :)

    Additional bit... A flanger, with the sweep action held still, is a comb filter. (That's pretty much the definition of a flanger.) -- Don
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    Pickup on rails? :)

    WarriorJoe7: I agree with this too. Your comb filtering is beyond me (I wouldn't know how to implement this) but I was just thinking a low pass filter used with something with even level harmonics would give something cool. A comb filter is a filter whose response curve looks...
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    Pickup on rails? :)

    Arx: I could also introduce an electronic comb filter, which should allow me to simulate pickup(s) in any position(s). Actually no, and that's a major point of the first of my articles. The frequency response you get from a pickup at a given location scales with each string, so...
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    Pickup on rails? :)

    WarriorJoe7: Well I guess I could have phrased this a whole lot better but I was thinking that the picture with the .1 wide pickup was best because it has the best potential to capture all the harmonics evenly. It's not clear that "capturing all the harmonics evenly" is a...
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    Pickup on rails? :)

    Yo. I'm Don, the guy who wrote the Pickup Response Java Applet. I don't normally do bulletin board things, but warriorjoe007 asked me to coment. There's a lot in this discussion that shows a serious misunderstanding of the issues. The applet is the third in a series of articles about...