Guitar Pickup

There are many ways to make guitar pickups. I will tell you about the simplest one, which requires minimal knowledge in radio engineering. First we need to find the things needed for this:

1) 3 tone-2 speakers (there may be a different letter index) with a resistance of at least 1000-1500 ohms. They can be found in “ancient” telephone handsets or bought from junk dealers (maybe they are also sold in radio stores, I don’t know for sure)

They are not suitable with low resistance (50-600 ohms) because... They give a weak signal and no amplifier can amplify it.

2) Connecting wires (several pieces for connecting speakers in series), Shielded wire of a length at your discretion. Everything is sold at an electrical store.

Any shielded wire will do, buy the cheapest one, or find a couple of meters of unnecessary television cable at home. You can take a two-core unshielded wire, but in this case it will “fake.” There is no need to buy connecting wires, you can always find some non-working tape recorder in the closet and take it from there

3) 2 plugs for and socket for plug

We need to dwell on this in more detail, it all depends on what you will connect the pickups to - to a DVD player, music center or to a computer through the microphone input.

You can take any first plug and socket. This is necessary so as not to get tangled in the wire and disconnect the cord from the guitar

The second plug depends on the amplifier:

For computer - headphone plug

For the video recorder - microphone plug

For music center - 2 tulips

 

In principle, you can buy a ready-made cord. Plugs and sockets are also sold. To save money, you can take the socket from the player, and the plug from old headphones (cut off the insulation with a knife and solder the wires)

4) And of course the acoustic guitar that we want to convert into electric.

Progress:

-Take the speakers and unscrew the top cover, remove the membrane. We no longer need covers and membranes, although excellent mediators can be cut out of membranes with simple scissors. The coil and thin wires extending from it will become visible. All subsequent operations should be carried out carefully so as not to damage the winding on the reel.

- We clamp the speaker in a vice and cut off the threaded edges with a hacksaw and round it a little with a file for beauty (so that they don’t cling to the strings)

-We perform the same operations with the remaining speakers... congratulations, 3 pickups are ready. This is what should happen:

Now they need to be connected in series (remember school physics courses =))

I won’t show complex diagrams, but will simply draw a schematic diagram of how to connect the pickups and all the other nonsense:

Have you figured it out a little? Now I'll explain. We connect 3 pickups in series with wires, this is very easy to do because The fasteners are bolts.Solder the plug to the shielded wire, and the socket to the two wires extending from the outer pickups. Next, we solder the plug corresponding to the amplifier. Now all that remains is to attach the pickups to the guitar. This can be done using glue, plasticine, or tape directly to the deck itself. Magnetic plates should be located along the strings. The pickups themselves are located in a ladder

For those who find it difficult to solder a plug:

The results of our efforts: now we can record the sound from a guitar on a computer using a sound recording program, connect it to the center and change the equalizer settings, and play loudly using a video recorder. The sound will be like an acoustic, but louder. To make a killer sound like an electric guitar, you need a lotion. In the following articles I will tell you how to make a simple lotion with your own hands.

Conclusion: purchased pickups for an acoustic guitar cost 500-1000 rubles. , and ours will cost no more than 100 rubles or even free if you already had all the components.