9-String Stereo and Partial Pickups Mod (... and Tone Demo)

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[@peterjohnson4932]

Learning how to mute unneeded strings is part of learning to play any instrument, ask any bassist. The pickup split is a great idea. Try Half a P-Bass pickup for the bass side. I'm surprised actually, that you haven't started winding your own pickups by now. As always, great video and plenty of food for thought. Thanks Kev!

[@dobbs123456789]

This dude is a mad scientist! Always great content, you’ve always got crazy ideas I’d never think of. Great video!

[@UncleRJ]

That is actually a purty good idea. What if you have a pickup specifically just for the bass strings and a pickup specifically just for the high strings?

[@James_Dawes]

Loving the look of the 9 string!

[@ikestoddard2458]

You could filter out the treble on the bass strings, and the bass strings on the treble via two outputs. Use 20dB/decade filter slope. Two multiband EQs ought to work.

[@stevepethel6843]

You do interesting mods and I love your videos. God bless you for taking chances experiments forward...

[@pedrodargen1431]

Have you ever considered building a guitar from scratch? Putting changes directly as "factory standards" or something like that? You are almost there anyways lol Great video

[@pedrodargen1431]

Build a "Said Too Much" signature

[@SaidTooMuchProductions]

If I could afford some of the tools, maybe

[@pedrodargen1431]

@@SaidTooMuchProductions If motivates you, here in Brazil one guy Made the body of a thinline telecaster only with wood he finded on trash and use recycle materials to make some tools Look for it: "Luthieria de Pobre Estradocaster" really cool

[@BelugaTheHutt]

Muting strings is a pretty critical skill to just bite the bullet and learn. However, it's still a cool mod project for other reasons, and I think you're hitting on something pretty neat. If you were to use this philosophy for tone, rather than for muting reasons, my take is that you should try a very trebly bridge pickup that ONLY runs under the low strings, and a more normal-sounding pickup in a middle or neck position, which runs under just the high 6 strings. A ubiquitous struggle of extended range players is to find tone settings which cut out enough of the bass frequencies on the low strings to get a bit of that djenty tone, while still preserving enough bass and mids for the higher strings to be able to achieve more conventional overdriven rock tones. The use of 2 different pickups for those different string ranges might be able to serve this purpose very nicely, and work around the struggle to compromise between the two different tone needs.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Awesome

[@James_Dawes]

Maybe putting in a separate bass pickup in could help? You could wire the toggle switch up so you can select between bass mode, guitar mode and 9 string mode

[@thebadbassist8123]

You could do a pj bass pickup configuration where one pickup only picks up the bass and one only picks up the high strings, each with its own volume knob and possibly a tone knob. Great vid!

[@JoshNotJohn0]

You could always try a jimmy clip for the string ring? dunno how well it'd work on a 9 STRING though (i don't know if they make them that big)

[@stephenhodgeman6496]

Bridge foam could simplify this... Wouldn't be as cool though lol.

[@vonicrimson3619]

How about a triangle shaped pickup that gets larger from the C# to the E so that the high e has the most out put while the c# has the least?

[@Th_RealDirtyDan]

Wait wait wait wait wait what if you modded a guitar where each string had its own pickup? That way in theory you could have infinitely more control over what string is doing and not doing

[@AlexIsASeraphim]

Have you seen those basses with the harp levers on the headstock that drop the string a whole tone? Just spit balling here, could that type of lever be engineered instead to lower a partial mute pad ahead of the nut?

[@arturoestrada562]

Hey Kevin, what was the issue with the shielding issue when you first installed the bridge? Was it the bridge coating?

[@SaidTooMuchProductions]

The electronics were just completely exposed

[@arturoestrada562]

@@SaidTooMuchProductions Thanks fella, love your work!

[@didtoknan8128]

"Most output jacks are stereo". No they're not and you meant TRS, not stereo.

[@FelPeR3D]

Somehow this one was not so successful for the objective

[@sydneyduchaine4832]

I've never been this early my grindr hookups have been tho