An open database of measured guitar and bass pickups: DC resistance, inductance, eddy-current loss and coil capacitance of the bare pickup, averaged over every capture the community shares.
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pickups/<brand>/<model>/<id>.json: one capture each (schemaschema/pickup.schema.json).guitars/: whole guitars measured at the output jack (pickups + pots + tone cap + cable).index.json: rebuilt automatically on every change. One entry per brand + model + position + type + wiring + cover, with the average, spread and count of each parameter, andprofile, the values a simulator uses.
RackNAM (NAM amp rack) and Coil of Duty (pickup X-ray jig) download index.json when they start, so every
shared capture becomes a pickup you can simulate.
Follow CAPTURE.md: calibrated jig, room temperature written down, three scans, no steel nearby. Repeatable captures are what make the averages trustworthy.
Coil of Duty (cod share) and RackNAM open a pre-filled Pickup capture issue. A bot validates the profile and opens a
pull request; once merged, the index updates and everyone has it at the next start. See CONTRIBUTING.md.
Data (pickups/, guitars/, index.json): CC BY 4.0.
Code (tools/, schema/, workflows): MIT, see LICENSE. Brand and model names belong to their owners and
are used only to identify the pickup measured.