Tag Archives: humbucking pairs

Coming Patents for 2018-2019

Posted on December 25, 2017 by admin

From simple principles of circuit theory, a patent currently in examination (a Non-Provisional Patent Application, or NPPA) develops and enumerates all possible combinations of pickup circuits, from 1 to infinity, which have potentially unique tones. It claims all such circuits … Continue reading →

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Theory has to be tested

Posted on June 22, 2017 by admin

I used to work in numerical modeling – a computer algorithm approximating an ideal equation approximating a physical process.  One of my best papers demonstrated that for decades other Ph.D.s had been using approximations that produced non-physical results even in … Continue reading →

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New PPA filed – June 20, 2017

Posted on June 21, 2017 by admin

On June 20, 2017, I filed a new Provisional Patent Application with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.  It covers modifications to two types of electro-magnetic guitar pickups, with horizontal and vertical coils, to provide information on the orientation of … Continue reading →

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Second Patent Filed

Posted on June 8, 2017 by admin

Second Patent Filed: Combinations of Pickups with Potentially Unique Tones – Patent filed June 7, 2017 developing the math and circuit topologies to show how many different tones are possible from 1 to 8 single-coil pickups (Table 1), 1 to … Continue reading →

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General Equations for Humbucking Pairs

Posted on August 10, 2016 by admin

(c) 2016 Don Baker Combinations of pickups don’t tell you how to connect them together.  They only tell you how many you have to work with.  This article, General Equations for Combinations of Humbucking Pairs, provides development and equations for: … Continue reading →

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Open Letter to Pickup Makers

Posted on August 6, 2016 by admin

Good Morning, My name is Don Baker.   I created the web site TulsaSoundGuitars.com and the sub-site HumbuckingPairs.com.  Also the web sites aquarien.com, android-originals.com and theandroidsaxe.com.  The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently issued Patent 9,401,134 to me, described at: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160027422A1/en … Continue reading →

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Humbucking Quad PPA – 10s, 100s, 1000s of tones

Posted on August 2, 2016 by admin

Excerpts from Provisional Patent Application Filed for Humbucking Quads So KK number of humbuckers can have: KK = 2, 3, 4, 5                                    humbucking pairs 2*KK = 4, 6, 8, 10                              humbucking pair tones KK = 1, 3, 6, … Continue reading →

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Fender(tm) – This means you

Posted on July 29, 2016 by admin

I got my U.S. Patent 9,401,134, filed July 23, 2014, issued July 26, 2014, out of the mailbox this morning.  Nice, fancy thing it is, all printed and bound, with an embossed gold seal of the United States Patent and … Continue reading →

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Changing the Personality of a Guitar – Part 2.1

Posted on July 11, 2016 by admin

It seems worth repeating the message another way, showing how to get the most out of humbucking pairs: For a pickup with 4 matched single-coil pickups, you can have 8 different personalities of 12 timbres each.  The personalities, timbres available … Continue reading →

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New Page: On Changing the Personality of a Guitar – Part 2

Posted on July 10, 2016 by admin

Click Here. Shows that for K number of matched single-coil pickups, the total number of possible in-phase pairs is K*(K-1)/2, and the total number of possible contra-phase pairs is K*(K-1)/2.  The ultimate number of unique humbucking pairs for K is … Continue reading →

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