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Post subject: What does this mean?
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 12:17 am
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I was looking at cheap Chinese guitars and they keep saying they have 'initiative adapterization pickups'. Does anyone know WTF that means?


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Post subject: Re: What does this mean?
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 12:46 am
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You've left your headlights on, you're draining the batteries......something along those lines I suspect :shock: ....or....If you really know what you're doing you could make these pickups sound/perform like any other. They're trying to take over the world I tell ya, trying to take over the world. What I'd like to know is who gave them reds the right.


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Post subject: Re: What does this mean?
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 1:15 am
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I think it's probably just a very poor or loose translation from Chinese.

Initiative adapterization could mean the pickups adapt themselves according to the various changing fields around them and initiate an appropriate signal. It could mean nothing more than "pickups".

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Post subject: Re: What does this mean?
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 1:43 am
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Maybe google translator's interpretation of 'active pickups'...
Just for fun, "active pickup" googletranslated to 'simple Chinese' is 主动拾音器
(& Sorry if that came out as an ancient Chinese curse word.)
:lol:


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Post subject: Re: What does this mean?
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 3:12 am
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Both Chinese and Japanese do not translate particularly well , for instance, the phrase
"Out of sight- out of mind"
Translates as
"Invisible Idiot"

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Post subject: Re: What does this mean?
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 8:26 am
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My first thoughts were also that it was poorly translated active pickups, but don't all guitars with active pickups use a 9v battery? None of the guitars I looked at had battery compartment, but what the hell do I know. :lol:


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Post subject: Re: What does this mean?
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 9:16 am
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My instructions say- "To turn on the recorder, turn on the recorder". I swear.
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 9:37 am
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Nope...these are the new futuristic pickups...but you have to plug them into the flux capacitor!

:lol: :lol:

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Post subject: Re: What does this mean?
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 9:59 am
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T2Stratman wrote:
Nope...these are the new futuristic pickups...but you have to plug them into the flux capacitor!

:lol: :lol:

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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 10:04 am
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Ah. Engrish.

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