Pretty sure she was just hot dude

Lol it even implies that living on the Western edge of a time zone increases your likelihood of breast cancer. Get the fuck out of here

And here’s a mountain goats song that I think captures the feeling really well!

https://youtu.be/eetIgGXH6DA?feature=shared

I would call it an ordeal

Some antennas have active components (not just preamps) that require some kind of DC voltage to work properly. Pretty common in dedicated GPS antennas. They also have bias ts covering pretty much any band you can think of. Well into the GHz range.

Yep! You just get a prescription from the eye doctor and enter the values on the site. 20 bucks later and boom you have some very reliable and inexpensive glasses. I’ve been using these guys for years and had basically zero issues.

To be fair you can get a pair of glasses on Zenni for like 20 bucks.

Interesting ideas! I encourage you to make a prototype and see how it goes!

A couple open ended questions:

-What does the frequency response of a traditional pickup look like? Is it flat or does it ripple/drop off significantly? Is that corrected somewhere else in the audio chain before it reaches your ears?

-Human hearing only stretches to about 20KHz. If your pickups capture everything up to that frequency then you’re really not missing anything. I don’t know much about pickups but in my line of work 20KHz is a very small bandwidth, so I would guess it’s not difficult to build one that has a nice flat response over that whole band.

-Human hearing perceives different frequencies at different amplitudes. If your goal is to produce ‘perfect’ sound (i.e. undistorted reproduction of the vibration of the strings) perhaps it would make more sense to correct for that?

-Your idea of changing the orientation of the magnetic field that interacts with the field of the strings of the guitar is interesting. I’m guessing the majority of the signal picked up by traditional pickups is from the component of the string’s magnetic field that’s aligned with the axis of the pickup. However I would imagine regular strumming produces more vibration perpendicular to that axis than parallel to it. I could see your idea more effectively capturing that energy and producing a larger signal. That would probably give you better signal to noise ratio and effectively give you better sound quality. Whether it’s a perceptible change or not is a different story.

Yep we had those train movies too! Kinda feels like a fever dream now.

They were called “I Love Toy Trains”

https://youtu.be/D4T5RcGmmIg

Marginally happier for a few weeks and then absolutely nothing