Fishman's 3d printed pickups

[Ddbltrbl]

I was only joking with Cagey, because it is clear that he understands the realities of shielding and noise reduction. When done right, I rarely find much problem with hum even on telecasters. But, having said that I agree with Street Avenger that the technology is out there to get "Vintage Tone" without the hum. My personal choice as I have said in other posts is a set of Zexcoils. To my ears, I get a huge range of sounds from the twang of a tele, to the power of a humbucker, but without the mud.  And, no hum except the Dynamo Rock!  :laughing7:

And, to get back on topic, 3D printing can definitely deposit all the materials necessary to create all the electrical aspects of a standard pickup, but I would really question the durability / usability of the final product for mass production as Swarfrat mentioned, and I have my doubts that it will sound like a scatter-wound pickup. But, give them a few years and a couple advances on ion beam deposition and who knows what might be possible.  :dontknow: It's just cool to me that someone is thinking about how to do it now.  :icon_thumright:

 

[drewfx]

And, to get back on topic, 3D printing can definitely deposit all the materials necessary to create all the electrical aspects of a standard pickup, but I would really question the durability / usability of the final product for mass production as Swarfrat mentioned, and I have my doubts that it will sound like a scatter-wound pickup. But, give them a few years and a couple advances on ion beam deposition and who knows what might be possible.  :dontknow: It's just cool to me that someone is thinking about how to do it now.  :icon_thumright:

It suggests to me that since what they're talking about are low impedance, low output PU's with active electronics to boost and shape the tone, they currently can't get nearly enough "winds" using this technology to do anything but a low impedance PU with a fairly flat frequency response.

 

[swarfrat]

There's a thread with the creator involved over at the music-electronics-forum. But basically they're medium impedance pickups made with multilayer stacked PCB's and some tone shaping. I don't mean to disparage them, I think they're quite neat, and would love to hear them. That was mostly just my cynisicm about trying to crack a market that doesn't want innovation.

 

[drewfx]

There's a thread with the creator involved over at the music-electronics-forum. But basically they're medium impedance pickups made with multilayer stacked PCB's and some tone shaping. I don't mean to disparage them, I think they're quite neat, and would love to hear them. That was mostly just my cynisicm about trying to crack a market that doesn't want innovation.

Yeah, I'm in kind of the same boat. I think it's interesting, with the potential to get more interesting. But I think they need to find the right application(s) for them to be commercially successful and I question whether trying to recreate traditional PU's is that application.