I'm looking for help with my guitar-project. The guitar is a 7-string acoustic. I need to get help to make some kind of a small mixer for the 7 magnet pickups. I need to split the signal and I hope that my simple sketch will make you understand on how I want it to work. All 4 channels will be connected to my sound-card for further processing, adding octave bass on the bass-strings, compressor reverb eq etc, so I don´t need to be able to adjust the signal easily on the guitar while i'm playing, I guess I need some kind of volume-pot right after each pickup to be able to make all pickups sound equal. The four separate nocie-gates need to have attack, release and threshold, but I don´t need to have access for that on the guitar.

Is this the right forum for this question if not can you give tips where to ask

Best regards.
Jörgen

 

Welcome to AAC!

I guess I need some kind of volume-pot right after each pickup to be able to make all pickups sound equal.

I'm no musician, but would expect you to need to balance the pickup outputs only occasionally? If so, six small 500K trim-pots might do the job, rather than full-size volume control pots.

 

Hello

Great, thank you for the tip and welcome! you are right about the trim-pots, small is nice. I'm thinking that I can have some kind of "insert function" for the gate's and then by four guitar-pedal-kits without the enclosure and connect these to the insert. The reason i want to have gate on those 4 is because I can use the gate to change the velocity that is needed to get a tone and I will connect this channels (channel 1) to a sub-octave pedal. When I play soft and get only the guitar-string/sound and when I play harder the gate let the bass-pedal through. But I don't know how to design a mixer for this purpose.

I need to split the signal on these 4 pickups..