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/OBV8XHAY1TICheers
