Pickup with one or more integrated controls

摘要

A musical instrument pickup, having a pickup body, a tone shaping circuit, and at least one integrated control in and/or on the pickup body. Embodiments of the present disclosure may utilize one or more techniques, alone or in combination, to adjust, e.g., the tone of a musical instrument by changing the frequency response of a pickup with the one or more integrated controls. One exemplary technique utilizes a plurality of knobs to selectively control the gain, resonant frequency, and/or circuit Q of the pickup.

主权项

1. A musical instrument pickup, comprising:
a base having a footprint size approximating either one single coil pickup footprint size or one humbucker pickup footprint size; a magnetic assembly on the base; a pickup body substantially covering the magnetic assembly and forming a pickup housing with the base; a tone shaping electrical circuit arranged within the pickup housing; and at least one integrated control in and/or on the pickup body, wherein the musical instrument pickup is arrangable within a pickup cavity sized to accommodate either only one single coil pickup or only one humbucker pickup.