Separating guitar pickups for stereo

[darrin_h2000]

In the mid to later 80's, there was an Eddie Van Halen endorsed Kramer model with six pan pots on the face of the guitar. One for each string. No idea what model number or make, but it obviously didn't go over too well.

I allready brought up the Kramer Ripley...Ovation had one as well

 

[stevieb]

I believe you are convolving two different "stereo" features. Rickenbacker's Rick-O-Sound wasn't/isn't individual strings (you can't split strings on mag pickups that go across the strings), it's the neck pickup on one channel and the bridge pickup on the other. Some Ovation acoustic guitars had a separate piezo pickup on each string and sent the odd strings to one side of a stereo split and the even to the other.

Ya know, I think you are right. It WAS an acoustic I heard about, not a Ric bass. But I am sure someone told me that there was a stereo Ric bass.

A P-bass pup could easily be wired stereo- and there once was a 6-string guitar- 60's or so- that had similar setup on all THREE pups. Tiesco or something... THAT could be wired as a stereo guitar.

 

[ggunn]

Ya know, I think you are right. It WAS an acoustic I heard about, not a Ric bass. But I am sure someone told me that there was a stereo Ric bass.

A P-bass pup could easily be wired stereo- and there once was a 6-string guitar- 60's or so- that had similar setup on all THREE pups. Tiesco or something... THAT could be wired as a stereo guitar.

Like I said, the stereo Ric bass had the Rick-O-Sound feature - neck pickup on one channel and bridge on the other. If you wired a P bass pickup the way you described, it would lose its hum canceling characteristic.