guitar pickups profiling ?

  • That seems a lot more complex. What the Kemper PA do is somehow model the chain between guitar output and mic preamp output. If you want to lengthen that chain to before the pickups, what's your input signal there? Maybe at some point in the future you could have some kind of RFID chip in a plectrum that tracks your hand movements and converts that in to a signal (also thereby modeling the wood and strings). That could probably be done even with today's technology, but will probably be a while before it will be good enough to please us corksniffers.

  • I wish the KPA had such a feature, it's doable , the latest revalver plugin has such feature :


    Peavey's ReValver 4 also features ACT (Audio Cloning Technology) modules that allow the user to mold and shape the guitar sound at both the input (before amp modeling) and output (after modeling). At the input, ACT turns ReValver into an instrument modeler by altering the incoming guitar signal to mimic the sound and characteristics of other instruments, such as acoustics, folk instruments, and even other electric guitar and pickup combinations. At the output, ACT allows the user to load presets that sculpt the signal to fit in a recording mix or mimic the sonic characteristics of famous guitar rigs.


    In the vid they are even talking about 'profiling your own guitar '

  • Several times I have taken DI recordings of various pickups I found online and then matched the EQ in a DAW.


    For example; Fluff has several DI tracks of Lundgren Pickups. So I took those, placed them in my DAW. and matched a graphic EQ to the sound graph. Then on the KPA I would place the Graphic EQ in Stomp A with the adjusted settings. Now, certainly this is not a perfect solution, but it did give me a starting point to modify my sound. Keep in mind this does not equate for the EQ adjustments needed to modify your personal pickup sounds. But with having a matched EQ of those pickups you can get closer.


    Its worth a try and I use it rarely, but when I am trying to match a certain pickup thats were I start.


    Hope this helps.

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  • Well... the Kemper company has gone beyond modeling with amps. Perhaps, they could eventually do the same thing with pickups <img src="https://www.kemper-amps.com/forum/wcf/images/smilies/smile.png" alt=":)" />


    This shouldnt be a problem if you have Pickups with a high resonance frequency. You can use PUs with lower resonance frequency as well, but they are limited. It is better to cut frequencies than to boost. All you need will be a resonant high cut. At the moment i use the Studio EQ with bell EQ and a high cut. There are some PU charts in the Internet. My personal experience is and I tested it, that the resonance frequency has the highest impact on sound, than the amount of resonance (db). With the same setting the difference between Single Coil and Humbucker is very little. I tested it with a SVF (state variable filter), it is a circuit to change the frequency and the mount. So i installed a Single Coil and Humbucker in my guitar to see how big the difference really is.

    Question: Anyone tried tonematching Eq software like iZotope Ozone to match certain pickups? Get the right settings to match it, and put it on EQ slots before the amp section?


    Wouldn't be perfect but worth a try?
    Edit : Hmmm, Pete proposed that kind…


    I tried 2 days ago and I got a very nice metal tone.


    Here is a database, with DI Tracks I will test more in near future :thumbup:


    http://www.sevenstring.org/for…up-di-track-thread-4.html

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