Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Kiichi on November 01, 2014, 07:57:19 PM
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Hej.
I hope this is alright to post here. I am not sure, since it is a pickup, but it is also kinda a guitar effect. I am on the at least hesitant side of that old discussion, but still.
Anyhow, a mate just send me this thing about a kickstarter project for a pickup that can make your bottom two strings sound like a bass guitar. Three way switch for normal tone, bass strings plus normal, or just bass.
It appears to be a single coil sized humbucker in a humbucker casing with an added pickup for just the two bottom strings which uses a built in DSP, in this case an octaver effect, but it is confined to the lowest two strings. That then runs on USB chargable battery, aimed to last 6 hours. Also two outputs so you can run it through a guitar amp or split the signal.
I am not quite sure what to think, and I can think of many things which can go wrong there, but it does sound cool in action. Maybe a possible future specialty guitar thing. Pretty costly stuff though at 200 Dollars as a preorder....which is a 20% discount it seems.
So I am wondering what you guys think of it. Here is the video, link to the kickstarter is in the description of the vid. http://youtu.be/OBV8XHAY1TI (http://youtu.be/OBV8XHAY1TI)
Cheers
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That's really interesting. In one of my band projects I use a boss super octave pedal to achieve a similar effect. However, it's awesome it works on the lower strings only, in a very tight and controlled way. One thing which I don't like is that there is no separate output for the bass signal that I can see, so the bass tone will be processed with all the other effects the main guitar sound has. This could of course be included with a stereo jack and splitter cable.
I do like the idea, a lot actually.
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In fact it does mention the stereo thing I just mentioned in the FAQ
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Yeah, I remembered your setup and was thinking about you when I saw this one.
The output lines were also my first concern. While they have that figured out, similarly to my Lucille which has the mono and the stereo out, that does take further modification to make it work, and not just "5 minutes" as they claim.
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Yeah, I remembered your setup and was thinking about you when I saw this one.
The output lines were also my first concern. While they have that figured out, similarly to my Lucille which has the mono and the stereo out, that does take further modification to make it work, and not just "5 minutes" as they claim.
Definitely! And even to change the guitar pickup is longer than 5 minutes on any guitar i've ever owned. it takes longer than that to tune back up afterward ;)
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Shortage of bassists to play with around your area?
Everyone in our band can play bass, LOL. Our bassist is the best of us on it, and I'm not sure he can play anything else, but myself, the other guitarist, and the drummer all play bass to some standard. I would just find a bassist
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Shortage of bassists to play with around your area?
Everyone in our band can play bass, LOL. Our bassist is the best of us on it, and I'm not sure he can play anything else, but myself, the other guitarist, and the drummer all play bass to some standard. I would just find a bassist
its particularly hard to find good and motivated musicians who play any instrument i reckon, and then you all have to get along