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Topic: Use headphones for guitar pickup? |
Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 10 Feb 2003 12:56 pm |
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When I was just a young whippersnapper, I used to use a pair of headphones for a pickup on an accoustic guitar. I would clamp the headphones around the body of the guitar and plug the chord into the input of my amp. I haven't done it for years but I always thought it worked pretty good! Has anyone else done anything like this?
Erv |
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Glenn Austin
From:
Montreal, Canada
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Posted 10 Feb 2003 1:01 pm
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| I've used a 12" speaker to record a bass drum. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 10 Feb 2003 2:24 pm
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Necessity is the mother of invention! 
Uff-Da! |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 10 Feb 2003 7:03 pm
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Back in the '50s, Popular Electronics magazine described how to build a "1-string steel guitar", using common lumber and hardware. The "pickup" was merely an electrodynamic headphone, with the earpiece and diaphragm removed, which was then mounted under the string.
Yes, it worked...but not very well. |
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