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Electric guitar pickups are placed under the strings where there is a lot of string movement - so a basic, passive (no battery) magnetic pickup works fine there - there is plenty of energy and we have come to like the sound. On Acoustic guitars those same locations are taken by sound holes or the soundboard,...
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Electric guitar pickups are placed under the strings where there is a lot of string movement - so a basic, passive (no battery) magnetic pickup works fine there - there is plenty of energy and we have come to like the sound. On Acoustic guitars those same locations are taken by sound holes or the soundboard, so the pickup has to go somewhere else. Usually it ends up under a fret or under the bridge, and a different technology is needed to pick up the sound. Typically this is piezo electric pickup which directly transduces vibration into electrical signals. read less
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There is two kind of pick up humbucker which is two single coil pickup playing together. Another is single coil. Different guitar have different pickup setup few may have two humbucker one in the neck one near the bridge. Few guitar have 3 single coil. Few have two humbucker neck n bridge one single...
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There is two kind of pick up humbucker which is two single coil pickup playing together. Another is single coil. Different guitar have different pickup setup few may have two humbucker one in the neck one near the bridge. Few guitar have 3 single coil. Few have two humbucker neck n bridge one single coil in the centre. read less
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Depends there are different kinds of pickups. Read specifications of Seymour Duncan pickups, prs pickups, alnico etc
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