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5 string bass guitar
spuddevans:
--- Quote from: Bernd on November 25, 2009, 04:23:04 PM ---BTW, how does a guitar like this pick up sound since it isn't hollow?
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--- Quote from: Bernd on November 25, 2009, 04:36:32 PM ---How close am I?
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Very close. :thumbup:
With most electric guitars they pick up the sound via the "Pickups". The principle is that the strings are steel, when strummed or plucked, the string will vibrate, the "Pickups" are basically a large coil of wire with "poles" of iron under each string ( or sometimes a long single pole that runs the width under all the strings ) set into the centre of the coil. The vibrating steel string will therefore induce a oscillating magnetic field that gets picked up via the "pickup" and that outputs a ( quite weak, but stronger than a microphone's output ) electrical signal that represents the oscillations of the strings.
More recently another method has become popular, and that is to use a piezo strip sandwiched between the bridge ( the anchor of the strings on the body ) and the body itself. The piezo picks up the vibrations of the strings that way. This is used a lot with electro-acoustic guitars.
Hope this answers it ok
Tim
John Rudd:
--- Quote from: spuddevans on November 25, 2009, 04:39:32 PM ---
With most electric guitars they pick up the sound via the "Pickups". The principle is that the strings are steel, when strummed or plucked, the string will vibrate, the "Pickups" are basically a large coil of wire with "poles" of iron under each string set into the centre of the coil. The vibrating steel string will therefore induce a oscillating magnetic field that gets picked up via the "pickup" and that outputs an electrical signal that represents the oscillations of the strings.
Tim
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Works for me when playing along to the 'Shads'......... :)
sorveltaja:
Tim, you have built quite a nice bass :med:.
raynerd:
Thanks for the extra pictures! :thumbup:
I really need to stop coming on here - I get distracted and end up with :proj:
I want to build a guitar now..... :smart:
raynerd:
Tim. in your last photos, is there a slot in the back of the neck and is this for the trus rod? How is this fixed in the next and can you adjust the tension on it?
Chris
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