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[Jus Lukin]

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[KiOgon]

Hey Andy, how ya doin?

Here's another idea 💡 how about a pick up that slides smoothly from 'almost' bridge to neck, controlled by a rotary like a volume, that you can move while playing!

A step up from a Westone rail 😎

[Dazed]

@Jus Lukin

Enfield Cannon? https://www.sims.guitars/enfield-guitars/cannon
 

 

 

 

@KiOgon Warwick did something along those lines with Guy Pratt 

In action here 

 

 

 

Wood & Tronics do something similar with a single Jazz pickup under a wooden cover that slides to 4 preset positions. 

 

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[Dazed]

Then there’s the Atlansia Pegasus and some of their other “out there“ designs. 

 

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[LeftyJ]

Italia tried this once, with a singlecoil lipstick pickup per string, mounted parallel:

[BigRedX]

33 minutes ago, LeftyJ said:

Italia tried this once, with a singlecoil lipstick pickup per string, mounted parallel:

I was just looking for that, and it's no longer on the Italia web site, so obviously not that popular.

[Jus Lukin]

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[TheGreek]

Woooo...look at us designing hardware.

Out thinking the big companies...Come on BC!!!

[Jus Lukin]

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[Dazed]

2 hours ago, Jus Lukin said:

I couldn't find anything about them in a quick search, but if I remember rightly these are kind of like a pair of super-quads in a single casing, so although very versatile, essentially still like two pickups in sound.

They cover a lot of string! I'd definitely like to hear them, but again it's a combination of lots of little coils and 'views' of the string, all probably interacting electronically. I'm sure there's a good reaon there is no such thing as one giant coil, but I can't help but wonder! Perhaps one day I need to pick up a cheap bass and speak to a custom pickup builder- or maybe speak to the builder first! 😄

I know what you mean. Haven’t found or ever come across such a pickup, that senses across a large area.
Maybe because you’d end up with an approximation of the sound, or the magnet would be so long it could cause string pull etc. There’s probably a very good reason for it? 

[MoonBassAlpha]

How about 3 pickups on a sliding plate? You could cover pretty much all possible standard positions without having a plate that actually moves too far. I  think that's a pretty neat idea!

[Jus Lukin]

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[Andyjr1515]

3 hours ago, Jus Lukin said:

Well... I will be collecting this from Andyjr1515 as soon as I'm allowed! 😄

If standard humbuckers are soap-bars, I'm picturing a 200-Marlboro-carton!

With all three switched on, I reckon you will pretty much answer your original question with this

[Maude]

If a mini humbucker gives a more focused sound due to 'seeing' a shorter length of string compared to a standard humbucker, then a pickup which could 'see' 100% of the speaking length of string should just be a sludgey, booming mush shouldn't it? But who knows? 

As Andy says, with all three of the Simms pickups on in MM mode you'll have a lot of the normal pickup area covered all a the same time. 

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Missing words, missing words.

[PlungerModerno]

I'm curious as to how it would sound. Just to cover from the bridge to where the 24th fret would be on a long scale (34") bass would mean having a really wide pickup - 8" or 20⅓ cm.

I think the SIMS design, especially if it's a pair (or triplets! 😎 ) or has been mounted on a sliding arrangement, grabber style or rail style, covers more options than most of us could shake a great variety of sticks and stick like objects at.

I see the unusual and neat Atlansia Pegasus design, but on closer inspection it appears to just be a triple P, with a single string on each split instead of the usual pair ("just" I know lol).

I think you'd need tiny mini pickups in an array like an LED array:

Maybe internally constructed like a Wal pickup?

To allow you to only use some of the coils. 

On 16/03/2021 at 15:32, LeftyJ said:

Italia tried this once, with a singlecoil lipstick pickup per string, mounted parallel:

If it was like the above you'd have to just use the whole coil or nothing lol.

 

I vote for a sliding pickup instead, save the wire and use smaller magnets or fewer magnets. It might be a neat experiment but it sounds like a massive waste of materials to me!

[Owen]

On 20/03/2021 at 21:12, Maude said:

then a pickup which could 'see' 100% of the speaking length of string should just be a sludgey, booming mush shouldn't it?

Tell me where to sign up!