Quote Originally Posted by Bluesmartyboy View Post
Now here's a thought.....a pickup works by picking up vibrations of a spring that disturb the magnetic Flux around the poles.....so mounting the neck pup on either the pick guard or body should not matter....however as we all know pickups will also detect a bump or knock etc.....so based on that they should also detect resonance through the body......but.....sound waves travel longitudinally through materials of the same density at a constant velocity but wherever there is a velocity change the waveform should change to a transverse waveform and refract off leading to refracted back wall echoes of the signal and therefore Muddiness of the sound due to the multiple wave peaks as harmonics of the forcing frequency...

So anyone else got any thoughts on body or pick guard mounting the neck pup

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A pickup transduces the mechanical energy of a vibrating string into an electrical signal. The intensity of the signal depends on numerous factors:

1. The momentum of the vibrating string is the product of its frequency, amplitude and mass, and depends on the force a player applies to the string ( the attack ) and the amount of energy absorbed by the guitar which explains that the output of a pickup varies in different guitars.

2. The efficiency of a pickup is the result of many factors.

The number of turns per square.
The relation between the length and the cross section of its coil or coils.
The diameter of the coil wire.
The permeability of the core.
The hysteresis of the core.
The permeance coefficient of the magnetic circuit ( B/H).
The energy product of the magnetic circuit ( Bd Hd.)

Remember, a pickup is NOT a power generator, and the magnitudes of volts, amps and watts are extremely small; but, regardless how many turns you put on a pickup, you will NEVER get 100 watts out of a 50 watt amp.

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