MATRIXSYNTH: Guitar Pickup Simulator


Thursday, August 05, 2010

Guitar Pickup Simulator

This one in via Tom Whitwell of Music Thing. BTW, you can now follow him on Twitter.

"My latest DIY thing - good for plugging synths into stompboxes and guitar amps.

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."

flickr by Tom.Whitwell

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