Dial Tone
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davidbeinct
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I would sound like me no matter which pickup I dialed in.
It's a neat idea (to me), but wouldn't you want different pickups to dial in? Otherwise, what's the point?
Guildedagain
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If you could make it spin while you play, now that would be something.
One of the original Danelectro guitars had pickups that could be slid out and replaced with a different one, I think they were lipstick pickups.
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Maybe it does spin? If so it seems it would have to be "wired" with some sort of contacts between the chosen pickup and leads to the control knobs/switches. Just guessing.
GGJaguar
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Dan Armstrong lucite guitar, too.
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It is hard to tell but the pickups are all different "flavors" of Seymour Duncan pickups according to the labels. Given that they are all SD my preferred speculation is that SD or someone who sold a lot of SD pickups put the instrument together to help buyers choose which SD configuration they wanted.
I'm thinking if the point was to use one instrument to perform then they would not all be SDs and might include some single coil PUs.
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I had a whole thread on similar guitars including that one. I’m too lazy to look for it, though. There’s one where the entire back or top (I forget) was held on by magnets for easy swapping of parts.
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steve488
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Slip rings are available for spinning contacts but they tend to be noisy and best suited to larger signals. There are also some RF type links but a bit pricy but maybe tolerable for a one off like this. It also might be that there are sliding contacts under the ring and when the PU is aligned with the strings, the contacts underneath make contact. That seems the simplest from the electronics point I would think.
Oh, really! Well, cool! Then maybe it does accomplish it's purpose though. Yeah, I saw they were all Duncan pickups and they looked the same, but if they're different.... Well cool. I saw the labels, but didn't study them.
Nuuska
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Studer-ReVox tape recorders and mixing consoles used to have slip rings that were gold-plated part of the circuit board - and the moving parts of the switch were gold-plated, too. After fixing those machines for nearly 50 years I never ever had a bad switch.
And they were also used in mic-inputs - which are equally low signal level as a guitar pup.
So it is doable.
adorshki
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Plus, to be fair, I got a 27" screen so it's pretty easy to see. Not that I'm bragging or anything.
adorshki
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Dial tone is 350 and 450hz combined (no that doesn't make 800hz, it makes [(1x450hz)+(1x350hz)] =dT