And dwelling on those things helps you… how?

Do you guys like having power? Lol

I personally hate it when people get weird about the word ‘hate’ and try to use the word ‘despise’ instead.

Literally happens every time you get food from a place that serves you from a bar and STILL expects a tip.

A little notebook I carry around with me

I work in RF and have to mess around with SMA cables all the time. As a result I carry a 5/16 wrench on my lanyard.

Lol it even implies that living on the Western edge of a time zone increases your likelihood of breast cancer. Get the fuck out of here

And here’s a mountain goats song that I think captures the feeling really well!

https://youtu.be/eetIgGXH6DA?feature=shared

I would call it an ordeal

Interesting ideas! I encourage you to make a prototype and see how it goes!

A couple open ended questions:

-What does the frequency response of a traditional pickup look like? Is it flat or does it ripple/drop off significantly? Is that corrected somewhere else in the audio chain before it reaches your ears?

-Human hearing only stretches to about 20KHz. If your pickups capture everything up to that frequency then you’re really not missing anything. I don’t know much about pickups but in my line of work 20KHz is a very small bandwidth, so I would guess it’s not difficult to build one that has a nice flat response over that whole band.

-Human hearing perceives different frequencies at different amplitudes. If your goal is to produce ‘perfect’ sound (i.e. undistorted reproduction of the vibration of the strings) perhaps it would make more sense to correct for that?

-Your idea of changing the orientation of the magnetic field that interacts with the field of the strings of the guitar is interesting. I’m guessing the majority of the signal picked up by traditional pickups is from the component of the string’s magnetic field that’s aligned with the axis of the pickup. However I would imagine regular strumming produces more vibration perpendicular to that axis than parallel to it. I could see your idea more effectively capturing that energy and producing a larger signal. That would probably give you better signal to noise ratio and effectively give you better sound quality. Whether it’s a perceptible change or not is a different story.