Guitar Pickups Explained (Electronics for Musicians 101)

Understanding how your instrument works can help you make better choices about what you buy and how you use it. Here's a straightforward explanation.

[johnstanley]

The coil around the magnet poles are the actual pickup. The magnet poles are there to magnetise the strings so the coil can pickup the strings movement.

[biscuidiotism]

The chainsaw was unnecessary and I love it.

[fidodido]

That's what i was looking for months

[morbidanimal]

If you posted this on tik tok or YouTube shorts, it would go crazy. Super cool

[smollande]

Ok so how is that flow of electrons different for higher and lower pitched notes? And what about if high and low notes are played together as in a chord?

I'm guessing that the volume of a note translates to the amount of electrons flowing (larger/ smaller current).

[eddiehazard]

why do you show the string moving up and down?

shouldn't it be back and forth?

[Americanrancher]

I’m gonna start referring to this video when arguing with the tonewood nerds 😂

[primemover]

Can you give us more than 44 seconds? This is not adequate

[lou]

Still don't understand it... This was a crap explanation...