At 45°, this is by far the steepest angle I’ve ever designed for a custom Nu Multi! (Aside: Oh and, yes, I still make drawings by hand now and then! Aided by CAD, of course 🙂 ) More importantly, this non-skewed design is what I will recommend from now on. It just works well, and …
Sometimes you just have to go back to the drawing board, errmm, chopping board, when things are not exactly just right. I’m not sure if I am the only one who ever attempted a dual mode, passive/active, pickup configuration. There it is side by side with the Modula prototype for A/B tonal comparison at the …
Here’s an exploded view of the XR-Spectra pickup from the bottom. The Preamp board connects to the coils via a small 2×6 pin 1mm gold-plated connector. The 2×6 pin has redundant connections to the coil for greater reliability. The preamp board is held in place by 4 screws. For passive operation, the preamp can be …
IDK, I get obsessed over the smallest detail. But the result is oh so satisfying! I’ll explain the details later…
A picture paints a thousand words… After more than a year in development, starting from my post about this new breed of pickups, here now are some pictures of Nina, our Modula reference guitar. There are three passive Tone Blocks, one per pickup, that allows you to capture that pickup color that you desire, from warm …
We’ve already worked on a few projects before, using Nu on the acoustic guitar. For such purposes, it makes sense to mount the Nu near the fretboard since you typically do not aggressively bend the strings, like you do with electrics, and so there is no lateral string displacement to worry about that can compromise …
We are now (officially) offering custom baseplate Laser-Cutting service. You get two custom baseplates for the minimal $15 service fee. The baseplates are precision cut based on your specifications and individually hand-buffed to perfection. Send us your specifications: https://www.cycfi.com/contact/ and we will send you back a CAD drawing (DPF and DXF) for confirmation (see example below). See XR Custom …
A little background: I’ve written a series of articles before about Virtual Pickups and how they are implemented in software (DSP). It’s a three part series: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. I wrote about Standing Waves, Nodes, Antinodes and Pickup Position, Comb Filters, some underlying Math and Simulation in DSP code. I also presented what I thought was a …
It’s nice to see our pickups in the academe. Chengxiang Ren and Jeffrey Huang, Cornell University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, used the Cycfi Neo (now Nu) polyphonic pickups in their Master’s project. I’ll try to learn more about this project and these cool people. Their ideas are perfectly aligned with mine. In this project, we designed a computational guitar …
Last time, I hinted at ways to mount the pickups. Surely, a guitar builder will find a zillion ways to mount these modules. I’ve had inquiries, not only from Guitars builders but from Violin and Cello builders too! I bet these builders have cool ideas how to mount these bad boys. Here are some examples. Images convey a …
