5. Magnetic Pickup

© M.Zollner 2002

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VOX-Pickup

VOX was in the sixties with tube amplifiers famous but also has E-Guitars

distributed. The below HDC-77 comes not from those days it is a

new development. Also the pickup is new - supposedly. "Planetz" in a

interview the VOX chief designer Eric Kirkland as the "inventor of the CoAxe Pickup",

and explains:

While there are many good-sounding humbucking and stacked "single-coil"

Pickup available, they are generally limited to one good noise-canceling microphone sound.

The unique

magnetic structure and tapped coils of the VOX CoAxe offer both the power of a traditional

humbucker and the high frequency detail of a true single coil - and the most effective noise

canceling available in a passive pickup

. This is not entirely wrong: the hum suppression

is impressive, the volume. The Sound? Should either as a fender single-

Coil, or a P90 or a humbucker blades. Should - unfortunately he knows it is not.

The characteristic of a humbuckers is the strings scanning at two

. The P90 and

the Fender single coil buttons on a

place the CoAxe instead at three

. How will the

both CoAxe P90 as well as humbucker emulate if its magnetic field not switched

be Used? Only his coils are switchable (tapped) - a weak effect: 2.5 dB

Level change and 20% shift to resonance. In humbucker mode is only a

items-RC circuit (100 k

Ω

, 1.5 nF) parallel to the pickup position. (Two monster sound-

Ter with together 28 tracks). And this is from a P90 a humbucker?

Nee, almost there is also missed. The CoAxe is good, but unlike the targeted pre-

Images. You can like or not. And one more thing: Completely new is it not, see

aaroe-Patent, 1981 logged in.

Fig. 5.15.11a:

VOX-Guitar with 2 CoAxe-Pickups [www.Korg.co.uk.

Fig. 5.15.11b:

CoAxe-Pickup [www.planetz.com].