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I do not care whether my hum-cancelling 'single coil' pickups sound exactly the same as the pickups they replaced or not - all I care is that they can make the same *type* of sounds, sound great, and do not hum - all of which they do. I no longer own any instruments with non-hum-cancelling pickups - but my guitars and basses are all what are thought of as 'single coil' instruments.
The same applies to my amps, pedals, and everything really. I'm not interested in reproducing vintage sounds to the degree that some people seem so obsessed by at all - as long as I can get the sounds I like then it's all good. I've owned plenty of vintage gear and while some of it did sound great in some contexts, it all had fairly major compromises in practical terms.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Actually that's probably possible already, but not by splitting a standard Gibson-type humbucker. I think you would agree that trying to make an *exact* reproduction of the sound of (say) a '54 Strat and a '59 Les Paul in the same guitar is a fool's errand though.
One of the things I wonder about now is what will happen when the boutique builders run out of different vintage designs - whether that's guitars, amps or pedals - to copy... a large chunk of the market seems to be taken up with that now, even of obscure stuff whose only claim to desirability seems to be that it's old and someone famous once used one.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
No amount of technological change is going to make that easier
All threads make me want to buy a Telecaster .
got me thinking..
as technology gets ever smaller, faster, more capable I'm wondering if the next generation of pups will be modellers..
Roland already did this yonks ago in the VG-99..
tone and tracking wise it was ok.. but not exactly stunning tone wise
it did however provide some interesting tone options that were clearly useful..
the down side was that it needed the special pup which meant:
- attach a huge ugly barnacle to the front of the guitar [which btw only works on right hand guitars]
- have the more discreet version built into your guitar [I didn't fancy having my custom V's hacked about for this]
- the cable is fkn mental thick and horrid
however - playing the 'what if' game
what if a pup that was the size of a HB with all the clever tech inside [with amazingly good pup modelling] could spit out the audio signal as if it were a real pup and so it passes through all the guitar's normal circuitry [vol / tone / selector / 1/4" jack]
and what if you could change pup via a floor controller too via bluetooth or similar [which would logically pave the way for pup-type changes to be triggered via MIDI from your processor <change preset and pup-type at the same time>]..
this could be really cool and very powerful...
especially for a touring muso like me that don't have the budget to take 4 electrics and an acoustic]..
or maybe some other wireless tech then..
Bluetooth latency is roughly 3x a cabled latency, approx 224ms. Newer implementations are faster but not fast enough for our needs:
https://stephencoyle.net/latency
https://stephencoyle.net/airpods-pro
TLDR; good enough for 'listening' to music. But not good enough to put into a guitar rig IMHO.