drstawl
Banned
OK- I finally got hold of a GK-2A Guitar to MIDI pickup and a Guitar to MIDI converter/synth combo (GR-09) and have run up against a wall here that I'm sure everyone (the Roland Ready Strat People and the Brian Moore i-guitar people aside) has gone through given just the pickup and an existing guitar in which it has been determined that the pickup fits.
Placement is CRUCIAL to the success of the installation.
The height of the pickup is sort-of designed around Strats in that it just sits on the pickguard with or without a shim. Teles have the strings too low to work at all but many guitars have freekin' canyons in that spot.
I didn't get the GK-2A manual so I am wondering what their thoughts on distances from the bridge/neck length ratios should be and the vertical distance from the pickup to the strings. Just futzing around it appeared that 1/16" below the strings and 1/8" from the bridge was where I've seen it on other guitars, but the final dial-in is what makes this thing work.
Seems like there would be a market for a mounting system that could be applied to the guitar with just eyeball precision and then allow the user, through the use of thumbwheels, to adjust the position of the pickup in 3 dimensions much like the two-point bridge height adjustment on a Gibson SG.
Am I reinventing the wheel?
Chime in!
Placement is CRUCIAL to the success of the installation.
The height of the pickup is sort-of designed around Strats in that it just sits on the pickguard with or without a shim. Teles have the strings too low to work at all but many guitars have freekin' canyons in that spot.
I didn't get the GK-2A manual so I am wondering what their thoughts on distances from the bridge/neck length ratios should be and the vertical distance from the pickup to the strings. Just futzing around it appeared that 1/16" below the strings and 1/8" from the bridge was where I've seen it on other guitars, but the final dial-in is what makes this thing work.
Seems like there would be a market for a mounting system that could be applied to the guitar with just eyeball precision and then allow the user, through the use of thumbwheels, to adjust the position of the pickup in 3 dimensions much like the two-point bridge height adjustment on a Gibson SG.
Am I reinventing the wheel?
Chime in!
