Pickups and electronics of AV Guitars...
My instruments include passive or active electronics.
Passive electronics simply means wiring pickups through the potentiometers and tone control to the output jack. The output jack is usually placed so that you can use a 90 degrees jack. With active electronics a small active preamp and possibly an equalizer with two or three bands are added between the potentiometres.
A usual combination is bass- treble or bass-mids- treble. A circuit for variable midrange can be used. Basses with a piezo pickup have my special electronics inside with a balance pot between the magnetic and piezo pickups. Another variation is to use classic active preamp and mix it only with the piezo circuit by a separate pot to the signal. Both active circuits, for magnetic and piezo pickup, have their own preamp section with adjustable input gain. Frequencies of the active electronics are set at 60-800-4000 Hz. These values can be changed on request. The electronics run on one 9V battery.
I use frequently Bartolini, Kent Armstrong, Delano, Basslines (Seymour Duncan), EMG, Nordstrand, Lundgren, SBS Electrosonic pickups. It is possible to wire these pickups as single/humbucker or to use a mini-switch or a push/pull pot for switching between parallel/series the modes.
Inlays, custom option of AV Guitars
