Childish things to do with your pickups..

What do you mean?
And what is metal to you?

 

Chris Wood's been doing that for awhile now.

 

You can also make a strange sound if you wack p/ups really hard when you have a reverb amp.

 

You have to hit it with something FERROUS to make it produce sound, PoT. So that wouldn't be because you're hitting the pickups, it's because you're making the bass vibrate.

 

When I was installin' the DiMarzio Split-P into my
cheapie Yammer, the instructions mentioned that
each section of the P-type pup was a humbucker
unto itself and that one option was to send the
"E-A" and "D-G" sections to different outputs.

Hmm...wire it thataway and tune the bass D-G-D-G?...
play some wacky, stereophonic Disco octave lines?


Nahhh

 

well, if I'm hunkerd down with a good amount of my body touching the bass, i.e. sitting down, chin resting on the upper horn, and not touchin the strings, my pups will pick up my voice, and I make "Help, I'm stuck in the amp" noises.

 

notduane-

if i remember correctly, victor wooten does somethign simaler to this on one of his recordings on the "a show of hands" album. i forget the track title, but i read somewhere that he sent the low strings to one output, clean, and the high strings to another with a chorus effect. it was amazing. like two players at once! only they were both victor wooten!

 

Lets not forget Eddie Van Halen's attempt to record a Mikita power drill on Poundcake

 

Attempt?

The other day when I started my computer, with my bass on my lap, it made a weird noise. Is that childish? You be the judge.

 

OK he made a GREAT recording of a mikita. I can't get my guitar to sound like his and I can't get my cordless drill to sound like his either. Man I am jealous.

 

That sounds temptin'.

Can you imagine the possibilities with a Bart Quadracoil
and a 5-pin DIN connector?...1 coil per string / each string to a
separate ouput / 1 amp per string. It just might bring back
Quadraphonic sound .

 

AND A BIG Rig. 4 stacks around the room. You would need your own sound man just to mix your signals and send them to the house. But what an AWESOME sound you could have.

 

I thought EVH stole that idea from Paul Gilbert (Racer X, Mr. Big).
What Paul did though, was mount three picks 120° apart off an
extension stuck into the drill chuck. Then he spun the whole mess
over the string(s) to give a "bowing" sound like the old Gizmotron.

I remember hearin' Billy Sheehan tell a story of how Paul was really
gettin' into it durin' a show. Paul got his long hair all wrapped-up in
the extension thingie -- end of guitar solo. They had to duck
behind some amps with a pair of scissors .

I think EVH was using the "noise" generated by the drill motor
bein' picked up by the pickups (no extensions, picks, etc.)

 

yea he does it on the title track "a show of hands" it sounds awesome through headphones.. but he uses piezo's for that sound.. and each string saddle has its own piezo pickup in it, and to me it sounds like E-D going to one side and A-G going to the other... but yea.. the doesn't use split coil pickups.. its piezo's.

 

Hey notduane, the story that Billy Sheehan tells is about a gig Mr Big did in the Edinburgh Playhouse about 9 years ago!!!! One of my mates went to see it - oh how they laughed!!!

 

They didn't cut Gilberts hair off, though...they took the chuck out and unwound it. The took scissors out, but Gilbert wouldn't let them get near him.

 

what about the thing that you can do with light wave pickups and have each string wired to a different output. that would be cool to have 4 different effect for each of the 4 strings and play chords.