TASTY LES PAULIKENS!!!

[opprobrium_9]

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Epiphone-Les-Paul-UltraII-Electric-Guitar?sku=515624







cobalt acoustic pickup hooked up to the chambers?!?!?! :o

ZOMG Me wants!  :twisted:

[Jazz Rock]

Looks really sweet. I was already finding the first version interesting but was a bit put of by the colour... It looks ok on pictures but the one I have seen in shop was too orangey. Didn't look healthy or natural!

The black quilted maple looks a lot better. What is the active pickup system about. Is it a kind of piezo at the end of the finger board?

[Machek]

What is the active pickup system about. Is it a kind of piezo at the end of the finger board?

err, i don't wanna boast here, just trying to be a little informative...
This system can't be like a piezo, since the piezo system is based on contact between the string (or something that is solidar to the string, like a saddle) and a piezoelectric crystal, which has for property to produce a tiny electric signal when pressed on and off... so basically you got to have a contact between string and piezo in order to produce a signal and this isn't the case here... so i wonder how this Nanomag system and traditionnal magnetic pickups differ?

[noodleplugerine]

The term NanoMAG suggests its magnetic.

[Scotty477]

From the site itself ....

The Les Paul Ultra-II is a truly different hybrid guitar combining a real Les Paul Guitar with a fingerboard-mounted NanoMag Samarium/Cobalt pickup and electronics to produce shimmering acoustic tones with ultra-wide dynamic range. It is crafted with the same acoustic chambers as those in the regular Les Paul Ultra. Comprehensive NanoMag controls are discretely incorporated into the back cover. True Stereo outputs capable of both mono and stereo with a regular cable.

The NanoMag is a magnetic pickup with an air coil and a composition of different samarium cobalt magnets incorporating active electronics in a minimum of space. The pickup is protected by an epoxy layer, and the silver-platinum shielding, together with the active electronics, provides a low impedance, hum free output signal. The NanoMag pickup provides an acoustic sound, but can also produce sweet blues and jazz tones. It is very resistant to the feedback and offers incredible dynamics in all positions.

[dave_mc]

marketing dudes need to stop using "nano" to describe anything even remotely scientific.

[indysmith]

marketing dudes need to stop using "nano" to describe anything even remotely scientific.

:lol: +1

[Scotty477]

Agreed.

It's a load of nanobollocks  :D

[sambo]

What is the active pickup system about. Is it a kind of piezo at the end of the finger board?

err, i don't wanna boast here, just trying to be a little informative...
This system can't be like a piezo, since the piezo system is based on contact between the string (or something that is solidar to the string, like a saddle) and a piezoelectric crystal, which has for property to produce a tiny electric signal when pressed on and off... so basically you got to have a contact between string and piezo in order to produce a signal and this isn't the case here... so i wonder how this Nanomag system and traditionnal magnetic pickups differ?

I didn't think Piezo systems were in direct contact with strings or saddles..... :?

[WezV]

I didn't think Piezo systems were in direct contact with strings or saddles..... :?

they are, they go directly under the saddle of the guitar in most cases so they are under constant pressure and changes in that pressure cause changes in the electric current

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectric_sensor