Multiple Hex PU's

Started by hired gun, July 14, 2015, 09:32:11 AM

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hired gun

i have four am fender vg guitars and i just bought a fishman body from the stratosphere for 650 its new i just wanted for the internal electronics im building a solid tiger maple body with a quilted top to install the fishman and a gk internal i need to know can i run those two pickups right next to each other or can i split the signal coming out of one to feed both preamps or am i going to put the ghost tech saddles on it im also installing the gk 13 pin on the fender vg's any advice

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Review the Fishman Tripleplay Guitar thread:
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=8394.0

Many do install multiple Hex PU's



or use a guitar with Hex Piezo+ Fishman Hex PU


Also review the Luthier area
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=183.0

- there is a thread where a VG Strat owner installed a 13 pin preamp from a GK Kit
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=1648.0


and for schematics read
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=73.0

and
GK-13 Interface Top things to know
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=65.0




Elantric

But you might consider keeping the guitars as they are - and mounting the FTP Controller in a separate box with 13 pin input - rather like the RackVax

details here:

FTP - DIY adapter to use GK 13 Pin Guitars with Tripleplay
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=8413.0

hired gun

 the fishland 4play will have all the parts in in a few days so it will be interesting to see if i can unplug the vg 8 pin plug and plug it into the gk-kit-gt preamp and see it it works hell for that matter the gk-3 wort has the same plug im assuming theirs configured the same just flip the wort over to the backside of guitar 

BackDAWman

I had to install my GK and FTP pickups butted up to each other. It tends to thin out the sound of the modelled pickups on the GK when both are installed like that.

Elantric

Quoteinstall my GK and FTP pickups butted up to each other. It tends to thin out the sound of the modelled pickups on the GK when both are installed like that.

Correct, this is due to the adjacent PU's Magnetic Flux field disrupting the HEX PU in use.