Dr. Baker, raised in a military family and currently retired, has lived has lived in 12 U.S. states from Hawaii to Massachusetts and Illinois to Florida, has degrees in E.E., Ocean Engr, Agronomy and Soil Science from M.I.T., Cambridge, [...]., Amherst, and Colorado St. U., Ft. Collins, with transcript courses from U. of Ark., Fayetteville and U. of New Orleans. He has been an Electronics Engineer and Scientist, has authored papers appearing or noted on [...], [...] and [...], and is the author, owner and site manager of [...], [...], [...] and [...]. He also has a long-time interest in the art of photography, having taken courses inthe M.I.T. Photo Lab of Minor White, past editor of Aperture. He currently relaxes by turning wood pens with homemade lathe tools, and has recently bought a rowing machine.

Provides readers with an in-depth preview of advanced concepts and products for electric stringed instrument, especially guitar, pickup circuit design

Explains concepts and products in a linear, tutorial manner, using tables, equations and figures to enhance presentation

Shows a logical and efficient way to use digital pickup switching, while maintaining an analog signal path between the strings and final guitar amplifier

Demonstrates the topologies of pickup circuits necessary to avoid overly complicated switching designs with redundant choices

Demonstrates how all humbucking pickup tones can be reproduced and analyzed with the spectral frequency distributions of a few, defined by humbucking basis vectors

Chapter 1. Introduction and Short Previews of Coming Chapters.- Chapter 2. Series-Parallel Circuit Topologies of Single Sensors.- Chapter 3. Series-Parallel Circuit Topologies of Humbucking Pickups.- Chapter 4. Series-Parallel Circuit Topologies of Matched Single-Coil Pickups.- Chapter 5. The Limits of Mechanical Switches.- Chapter 6. An Efficient uC-controlled Cross-Point Pickup Switching System.- Chapter 7. The Tonal Advantages of Pickups with Reversible Magnets.- Chapter 8. Common Connection Point Humbucking Circuits with Odd and Even Numbers of Matched Single-Coil Pickups.- Chapter 9. A Common-Point Connection Experiment With Two Mini-Humbuckers.- Chapter 10. Switching Systems for Common-Point Connection Pickup Circuits.- Chapter 11. Humbucking Basis Vectors - Tones Without Switching.