【 Weak current College 】 electric guitar pickups detailed glossary complete

1. active pickups
Sound quality with more gain, can reduce the output impedance. Noise is less, is easier to create a new sound, that is, using long cables without high-frequency loss. This would clearly be in a variety of effects on strong no noise signal.

LiveWire is active pickups. Xh-model is active pickups Basslines pickups (you can compare the "passive pickups"

2. calibration
In the winding pickups and switch between the pickup, to guarantee that the output will v balance. Rhythm fastest pickups in Qin bridge location, in the middle of the pickup is reverse winding/pole instead.

3. direct current resistance
Direct current resistance is the display output and tone of the General index. DC resistance value description output will owe large v, timbre and bright. For a single-coil pickups, vintage DC resistance of about 6. 5--7K。 High output will v single coil pickups or size with single coil pickup Humbucker pickups of double row of DC resistance of approximately 16K or higher. Vintage sound of the double-row Humbucker pickups to 7 DC resistance in General. 3K, fast-paced two-row DC resistance Humbucker pickups will be higher.

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4. epoxy tank sealing material
Coil after vacuum wax treatment, manufacturers sometimes use epoxy tank sealing material will save to prevent damage to the pickup pickups. In active bass pickups, LiveWire, wooden pickups you will find this kind of epoxy tank sealing material. On some pickups, column such as metal LiveWire, epoxy tank sealing material can reduce the micro-code expanded feedback.

5. four-conductor wiring
For all double-row Humbucker pickups (apart from a few small SeymourDuncanvintage model pickups), we will each loop start and end of the wire are in one same mask of cable service to terminate. This way you can implement a COOL wiring and switch configurations, columns such as paradoxical/phase series/split/parallel or other pickups-phase paradoxical/tandem/split/parallel. In short it is possible to double coil pickups through switch to single-coil pickups, allowing your guitar with richer timbre.

6. the Gaussian
Flux density measurements, used to describe the magnetic field strength.

7. ground wire
The reference point in the circuit

8. no noise of double row Humbucker pickups
SethLover in 1955, the design of pickups, which consists of two poles instead of single coil pickup device-side composition. By two single-coil pickups together while enjoying a typical single-coil pickups small much noise, higher output and more lucrative, full tone.

9. impedance
AC resistance. In passive pickups, resistance value changes with frequency

10. ohm
Resistance of standard units. The direct current resistance for pick-up is usually/Kohms K euro

11. the paradoxical
Two coils or two pickups paradoxical connection can eliminate part of the signal. Paradoxical wiring of pickups sound quality is not huge, often have a sharp sound. Similar JerryGarcia sound quality. Sometimes instrument lumbar and Qin bridge or violin neck pickup device combination is considered a "heterogeneous". In order to avoid stale, we call this kind of sound called "cluck" or "snark"

12. the parallel wiring
Two coil side-by-side routing, and in-line, the output will be approximately 40% lower v, but the treble is clear. Double-row pickup if parallel wiring Humbucker, voice sounds like single-coil pickups, but no buzzing sound.

13.ParallelAxis
Each string has four right angles poles (except PA-TBInParallelaxisStack each string has two magnetic poles). Pole configuration can be dispersed and weakening the magnetic field, treble softer and more pleasant!

14. passive pickups
Internal no active circuit of pickups. Most of the electric guitar and bass, acoustic guitar pickups and pickup pickups term passive pickups. Its advantage is that the overall tone and strength of vintage and intensity. And does not require batteries

15. phase
Time-related two wave pattern of relations

16. polarity
The cathode and the anode current relationships between the

17. the magnetic pole, non-magnetic
Iron (contains iron and magnetic transmission characteristics of) metal, can control and/or form a magnetic field. In General, there are two types: you can adjust and non adjustable pole. The physical characteristics of the magnetic pole will change the magnetic pickups. The larger the magnetic poles, the magnetic field. The output will be higher, where music v. Small and thin magnetic pole formation is small, the output required is low, v sound harsh. In order to achieve the best sound effects, a pickup in often use two or more magnetic pole

18. the magnetic poles, the magnetic
Means a magnet of shaft directly into strings, magnet itself is the pole of pickups. Columns as most vintage type single coil was the first in the treble strings with magnetic steel 2, Rod, on the bass strings with magnetic steel 5 bar, realistic bass and mellow tone effect

19. resonance peak
Pickup device resistance at the maximum frequency. Resonance peak high mean sound brighter,More clearly. Columns such as special pickups, Strat harmonic peak in 3.5KHZ (HOTRALLS) to 10.0KHZ (VINTAGESTAGGERED)

20. reverse opposite winding/pole
Refers to two or three pickups guitar will eventually reverse single coil pickups of winding direction, contrary to the magnetic pole. Column where, if you Start a guitar neck pickups in the violin is reverse winding/pole instead, then the pickups in violin neck or Qin bridge pickups use when they no longer have a buzzing sound

21. the parallel wiring
Parallel wiring of pickup device output will v high tone. This is the Humbucker pickup standard cabling

22.Split pickups
Shorten the double-row a coil Humbucker pickups, resulting in the sound of single coil pickups. Sometimes mistaken for the "Tapping pickups"

23.Stack
A SeymourDuncan has patented technology, even if the two coils stack together to eliminate humming sound and keep the single coil pickups of sound quality and size

24.Tapping pickups
A number of wire around, you can produce multiple output will v and sound quality of a coil. Use Tapping pickups and switching device, a pickup device can produce high output will be the output of a vintage v will v

25. sensors
Will energy to one form into another form. Pickup is the sensor because it put the strings vibration into electronic signals. Speakers will be converted into electronic signals, power pickups is also a form of sensor

26.Trembucker
The distance between the poles of the big band vibrato of double row Humbucker pickups. Some Trembucker use ParallelAxis pole, some Trembucker look ordinary Humbucker pickups similar double rows, only the large distance between the magnetic poles

27. volts
AMPS battery flow through 1 Ohm resistor unit of electromotive force of

28. wax
A way to dipped in wax for pick-up completely, so that the coil and mechanical parts completely hardened. This is done to prevent the expansion of the micro-code. Well-known manufacturers use the wax seal vacuum methods ensure an empty internal any pick-up of parts with sealing wax. If your pickup not issued sharp and long sound, then you really should thank you for the use of pickup device manufacturers.
The actual situation in live operation.