AudioScope

Same Guitar Note, Different Pickup Position

Hear a model of the same 110 Hz guitar string at two pickup positions.

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What to listen for

In this ideal model, one fifth of the way from the bridge is a node for the fifth harmonic, so the point pickup there largely misses that harmonic. Real pickups sense a region of the string and have their own electrical response.

Technical reference

See a pickup that separates signals from each string