| Welcome to the Ubertar Hexaphonic guitar pickup page. We are a small company (currently just one person-- Paul Rubenstein, that's me) specializing in passive, electromagnetic, polyphonic pickups for stringed musical instruments, particularly hexaphonic guitar pickups.
A hexaphonic guitar pickup (sometimes called a divided pickup) is a pickup with six outputs (one for each string on the guitar). Polyphonic pickups are pickups with multiple outputs of any number, including heptaphonic pickups for seven-stringed guitars, quadraphonic pickups for bass, and any other possibility. All of my pickups are passive and electromagnetic - these sound much better than piezo or active pickups, which are usually meant for MIDI applications, rather than direct audio output.
*Type 1 with turbo and type 2 pickups are compatible with Roland VG-99 and GR-20 processors (guitar synths). Type 1 with turbo is the better choice for this application - it has stronger output and the units track it better. Older type 2s will probably not work with the Roland - the newer ones have higher output. See the FAQ page for more info. |