Systems and methods for onboard, real-time pickup blending for electric guitars and basses
OwnerMark Ellisinventor
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Abstract
Systems and methods for onboard, real-time pickup blending for electric guitars/basses may utilize every possible tonal combination that double coil pickups can offer. The industry standard pickup toggle switch may be removed from electric guitar/bass instruments. Instead of a user being limited to only using one pickup at a time to be selected, the user may mix in any combination of the pickups (top, bottom, or both) at any time. Accordingly, multiple pickups can be on at the same time and/or the user may blend in (or out) any percentage of any of the pickups that the user wishes to create a large combination of tones.
Claims14
A system for onboard, real-time pickup blending for electric guitars/basses comprising:
- at least two double coil (Humbucker) pickups selected from a neck pickup, a middle pickup, and a bridge pickup, each of the pickups including:
- a three-way toggle switch adjustable in real-time to select a tonal characteristic of the associated selected pickup, where the tonal characteristic is selected from the following:
- North single coil only, or South single coil only, and series or parallel wiring of the coils;
- and
- an off/on blender knob adjustable in real-time and capable of blending sound from the associated selected pickup from 0-100% to a final mix,
- wherein the system is housed on the same electric guitar or bass to provide onboard, real-time pickup blending, the system allowing for mixing in any combination of pickups residing on the same electric guitar or bass at the same time, and
- wherein no additional components are required to alter the tonal characteristics digitally.
A system for onboard, real-time pickup blending for electric guitars/basses comprising:
- a double coil neck pickup including a two-way toggle switch to select how coils are wired and an off/on blender knob adjustable in real-time and capable of blending sound from the pickup from 0-100% to a final mix;
- a double coil middle pickup including a two-way toggle switch to select how coils are wired and an off/on blender knob adjustable in real-time and capable of blending sound from the pickup from 0-100% to a final mix;
- and
- a double coil bridge pickup including a two-way toggle switch to select how coils are wired and an off/on blender knob adjustable in real-time and capable of blending sound from the pickup from 0-100% to a final mix,
- wherein the system is housed on the same electric guitar or bass to provide onboard, real-time pickup blending;
- and
- wherein each of the two-way toggle switches select tonal characteristics of its respective pickup selected from coil splitting through top/North, bottom/South, or both, and series/parallel through coils wired in series or in parallel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.