I would like to provide an overview of the most commonly
available types of pickups available today, without getting too bogged down in technical
details. In subsequent articles I will discuss pickups for individual musical instruments
in more detail.
In a nutshell, a “pickup” is a device that detects the vibrations (or resonance) produced by a musical instrument and converts those vibrations into electrical signals that can be sent to an amplifier, mixer board, PA system or recording device...