What are the guitar sensors?
A guitar sensor, also known as a converter, is an electromagnetic device that provides electric guitars their distinctive sound. When working on the principle of magnetic induction, it creates a magnetic field "picking up" by vibrating steel or nickel guitar strings as they interrupt the magnetic fields and convert them into an electrical signal. This signal is then handed over to a guitar amplifier and converted into a sound sound. Guitar sensors are also used in acoustic guitars to produce louder volumes than possible in a naturally produced amplification of the sound box.
The pick -up structure is simple. It consists of a thin rectangular magnet wrapped in a coil made of several thousand turns of a very fine copper electric wire. For each string, there may be one magnet wrapped on a coil achieved through all six guitar chains or separate. These magnets are attached to the guitar body under the strings, with a magnetized surface in the upward direction.
The guitar may have a single pickup or more sensors located in different positions at the neck, bridge or guard. The position is essential because the sound of the string changes along the length of the string; For example, the bridge position creates a bright bright sound, while the neck position creates a softer sound. Each sensor can have a significant sound that can be changed by adjusting the pick -up height in relation to the string. Various configurations or combinations of pickup create a layered sound. Sound changes also depend on the changes in the magnet type, the magnet's strength, the size of the wire and the number of curves of the coil.
There are many varieties of pickups on the market. The magnetic sensors most of the electric guitars come in two main styles: the only coil that has a single magnet for each string and a double or humbucker coil, which has two twisted magnets in the opposite polarity. Stratocaster guitars from 1954-1979 had one-time guitar sensors. HumThe Uckers was developed in 1955 by Sethem Lover, an engineer in Gibson to cancel the undesirable sounds of "hum" from any close electrical wires, lighting or appliances to pick up one coils in addition to vibrations. Many recent guitars include both individual coils and humbuckers.
Optical sensors work by reducing the interruption of the light beam through the string. Ron Hoag, the inventor of this pickup, first displayed an optical pick-up guitar at the NAMM business products in Chicago in 1969. Electroacoustic sensors that use crystals to detect pressure changes, can be found in Parker Fly guitars and Godin guitars.
The difference in guitars is of type and quality. Musicians generally use the most suitable for their specific musical sound or combine different to gain Testa what they want.