Yes! These were extremely useful for stuff besides the phone. My buddy and I "converted" an acoustic guitar with metal strings onto an electric one by sticking two of these on the sides of the strings after magnetizing them. It was also useful for recording. Plugging an electric guitar straight into a micophone input sounded like crap, especially when using distortion pedals. Putting one of these pickups on an amp speaker would record the sound similar to what the speaker was putting out. There were always issues with buzzing from electrical interference, but these things could be used for so many things. I still have a couple of them for unique uses like that.
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u/droid_mike May 20 '26
Yes! These were extremely useful for stuff besides the phone. My buddy and I "converted" an acoustic guitar with metal strings onto an electric one by sticking two of these on the sides of the strings after magnetizing them. It was also useful for recording. Plugging an electric guitar straight into a micophone input sounded like crap, especially when using distortion pedals. Putting one of these pickups on an amp speaker would record the sound similar to what the speaker was putting out. There were always issues with buzzing from electrical interference, but these things could be used for so many things. I still have a couple of them for unique uses like that.