This video fucking rules, was talking about electric guitars and wanted to know more about how pickups work and this is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thank you!
Agreed. Ever since I have read the cited article I was surprised that no one (at least as far as I am aware of) has come forward about one major restriction of the field pictures shown there. They are only true for one single plain: The cross section rectangular to the longitudinal axis of the string. All other plaines would show a very different picture. The reason for that is ferromagnetic material has a far better permeance (magnetic conductivity) than air and pickups eploit excactly this feature to work as convincingly as they do. I have now translated my pickup explanation video into English ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cWaUm_Z8iNo.html in case anyone is interested
Very very useful stuff, I recall some of it from my Physics class and you made things really easy to understand! And someone's going to still ask how to get good tones.
Very well explained and well pitched, hard balance between being informative and keeping people interested. I do electromagnetic FEA modelling at my work and have toyed with the idea of seeing if I could model this phenomena, will post any results if I ever do. Not sure if could ever simulate and predict a guitars 'tone' though, way too many variables but it would be an interesting concept to try. Anyway big thumbs up on the physics content 👍
Awesome video man, even though you had to gloss over a few of the more in-depth topics, you elegantly explained a rather complex process without getting too fluffy or vague. For instance, you could've mentioned Lenz's Law, but that could possibly have been to the detriment of the viewer because it'd take away from the focus of the video. Big like
Great video man! I love these in-depth looks at things most musicians take for granted :) Quick question: Did you do any sort study for any of this in the past or is just information you've looked up in your own time? Love the music man
I have a masters degree in physics so I that's where my interest and background in this stuff is. I still have to refresh my knowledge when researching these videos though!
@@SithuAye That's so cool! I'm starting a degree in electrical engineering next year, so hopefully I'll be able to use some of that knowledge towards music!
Hey C2, you ever hear of a company called MJS Custom Pickups? If you *r e a l l y* wanna dial in your sound, get him to build you some pickups to your exact specifications.
That you so much for this, you could explain it perfectly for noobs like me xD. And sorry forr this, I don’t want to be disrespectful but it seems you have lost some weight, I hope is not because a sickness or something like that. Greetings man! I can’t wait for see you again in concert! :D
Dont want to be that guy, but I would argue that magnetism in its core is still not fullly understood. The microscopic model of (quantum) spins only go as far as giving the right mathematical description (seems to be right at least) but nothing is actually spinning. As far as I know no one really knows why a spin has a magnetic moment, its just that you say well these ARE the magnetic moments and they make up magnetism, boom, voila! But going any further than this no one really knows whats going on.
The same could be said for any quantum phenomena as the mathematical descriptions and theory came after trying to reconcile experimental results against classical physics. The same for fundamental constants as well; those just 'are' and we don't have an explanation as to why they take their values. You could argue that we don't fully understand anything. What I did say is that the physics was well understood, we have a theory that has predictive power and has real-world practical application. If you get too reductive you begin to not be able to see the forest from the trees.
