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Pickup Test 1
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Part 1 of 2. Quickly recorded (clams and all) auditions of 27 pickups on 17 guitars.
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Frank Hudson composes and plays guitar-based music in several genres. Originally an acoustic music player he branced out into various rock genres, including playing with "The LYL Band" and other musicians. In the late 1990s he began producing, composing, playing and recording instrumental rock.
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Rock • Rock General
Charts
Peak #1,317
Peak in subgenre #171
Author
Frank Hudson
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2008
Uploaded
August 19, 2008
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MP3 9.3 MB • 128 kbps • 10:09
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Just how distinctive is the sound of a particular guitar? Think you can always tell a single coil from a humbucker? A Strat from a Tele? I figured why not a test this using only the sound they produce. This and the second file in this set has 30 second clips of one of 27 pickups on 17 guitars all recorded through the same classic Fender Princeton blackface combo amp recorded with a Shure SM57 close to the grill and a bit off axis. I'm sorry, but you're going to hear some pretty rough playing. In the short time I had all 17 guitars ready and tuned up, I ended up running through them pretty fast, jumping from one to the other quickly after a couple of minutes at best. If the fingers fumbled a bit, I had to move on to the next. This also isn't an interesting piece of music, except to the gear head who want to compare the sounds. The backing track is simple and is just to help me have a beat and some harmonic basis for the simple riffs I tried to crank out. Those admissions out of the way, I think you'll hear how much different the guitars and pickups sound, even played in the same hour by the same player through the same amp.
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