Recap Last week, I presented the 4th part of the Virtual Pickups series. The article continues the series with the introduction of the preprocessor and how it negates the actual pickup’s natural comb-filter effect, with a result that is exceptionally rich in harmonics —very much like an acoustic guitar, with a sufficiently flat frequency response …
A few years ago, I wrote a three part article series about virtual pickups: emulating guitar pickups in software. Now it is 2020 and after a long journey, I am continuing with parts 4, 5 and 6 of the Virtual Pickups series, in anticipation of the release of the Ascend VPU plugin — the first …
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 …
“Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Ah my favourite Einstein quote. Apart from the Infinity project, here’s what we’ve been working on for the past couple of months: Coming very soon, an easy to use Neo setup. This solderless system includes everything you will need to get an extended response pickup system up and running …
This is the third and final instalment of the Virtual Pickups series. I changed the title from Virtual Pickup Placement to better express the actual subject which will now go beyond pickup placement. This time, we will talk about simulating pickup width —its aperture. We will also talk about compensating for the actual pickup’s comb filter effect using an inverse comb …
Last week, I stated that given a multichannel pickup with a wide and flat frequency response such as the Neo, it is possible to reproduce the frequency response of various pickup positions (bridge, neck, middle —anywhere from the nut to the bridge) without actually moving the pickup. But we can do better! We can actually emulate …
It’s Sunday. What better way to spend the day than to do some DSP hacking. Today, it will be about Virtual Pickup Placement. A well-known DSP guru remarked, “When you think about it, everything is a filter”. Given a multichannel pickup with a wide and flat frequency response such as the Neo, it is possible to reproduce the frequency response of …
