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IMJ
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IT WORKS!!
It made sense to me that it wouldn't but it does and pretty well at that!
I had a great big smile on my face as i listen to a recording of my strat out of my DA straight into a bassline j bass pickup resting on top of the strings of my jazz bass and out of that into a marshall head + cab! ha ha great fun!
Of course i was using a line level signal but i figured (and tired, long day) easiest/loudest will work if anything is gonna. It lost a bit of low end but if i had been bothered taking off the strings that may have been solved. I dunno if it would be a thing i'd do to get a different pickup sound but it was NOT a bad sound pretty clear and of course interesting, defo not a crazy buzzy sound fx!!
Fair play to you noiseasy! your attitude towards the idea enthused me to try it out instead of just assuming it wouldn't work!
I read this quote before i tried out the pickup thing and kinda thought its half right! aren't the people that push boundaries also the ones who don't have a clue and ask questions and look at things from a completely new angle!
here's the deal scientifically speaking there is no way other than to play an instrument to recreate the detail required to reamp through a pickup in order to do OTB pickup modeling so to speak. Personally I think doing multiple takes is easier to do and less time consuming than this type of experimenting.
You would have to literally create a device that transferred string vibrations, tensions, technique, every single last drop of nuance through an instrument that isn't actually being played.
To truly get 90-100% of that mojo that a different guitar/set of pickups provide you have to cut another take. I don't know of a way that is feasibly possible that would replicated playing a take on a guitar without someone playing a guitar. Unless there's some kind of fancy new guitar playing robot. You guys are overlooking what creates the original signal that a pickup is transferring. When you reamp in the conventional method none of those subtle nuances are lost it's just like I plugged into fill in the blank amp because it is always the DI signal that would normally be fed to an amp.
What you are trying to reamp is only a portion of the actual source material by the OP's desired method. This cannot be disputed, it simply can't it's scientific. Other things colored the tone like the original guitar used, how it was setup, the string type, the player, the pick used, the original pickups.
If I track a song using a twangy vintage tele bridge pickup and then reamp it through a humbucker or P90 that's not close to what the original harmonic structure was. That's not even factoring between the differences of that Tele body vs a PRS/Gibson (whatever) body. Nor would it account for the fact that I may use different gauges/types of strings on each of those instrument types. I don't know about you guys but I play each of my guitars a little bit differently.
I never once said that useable tones couldn't be achieved with the out of the box thinking we have, all of us acknowledge that there are cool/useable noises.
I have tried similar things myself in my years of tinkering my favorite guitar is an old Harmony with a gold foil DeArmond for doing these "pickup experiements".