00:00How do you make a string vibrate predictably, dynamically, in a musical way?
00:06Don't ruin it with a pickup.
00:08A lot of pickups have such a strong magnetic pull that's so focused on a string.
00:13As the string vibrates around, it doesn't move in a circle anymore.
00:20It gets pulled closer, almost like it orbits,
00:23as if this thing's got a gravitational pull against the string.
00:26We don't think of aluminum as being particularly magnetic.
00:30Like if you take a... I'll show you.
00:33I'll show you.
00:34Look straight down it and drop this magnet down there.
00:38Oh, wow.
00:41It looks like it's being slowed down by gravity.
00:45You can actually use this effect and go...
00:48You can voice, if you will, the shape of the field so that it's diffused,
00:55so that you end up hearing more of the harmonic content
00:58that would be naturally in the string and not dampen it out.
01:01So basically, the combination of aluminum and neodymium creates that.
01:05Yeah.
01:05Yeah.
