I bet you'd all love one of these ....

Johnny Storm

..well, I would anyway. Do you think they really exist or is it a Photoshop jobbie?

linky

Doctor J

I'd say it's real alright. I wouldn't like the coils of a pickup that exposed though. Yes sir, you're just asking for trouble right there.

Where is KH to drool over this thing?



Damn, the pacman smiley would've really worked well there

Karl Hungus

Doctor J wrote:

Where is KH to drool over this thing?

Oh hell no. :eek:

SirLemonhead

Made me think of some horrible mutation of a Parker Fly, Uli Roth's Sky guitars and...god knows what else.

Scoops

I think it's kinda cool

Rustar

I'd be worried about getting my pants caught in those exposed trem springs!

Gary ITR

Ah no that yoke is mouldy

david

Looks like a big knob from the front, if you disregard the big silver upper horn

MagnumForce

I'd hate to see what your knob looks like then!! ha!

It's almost alright except for all the exposed **** and the neck cut off like that. But im intruiged, it seems to have three outputs, one standard 1/4", one MIDI and another, it would interest me as to what that third output is, and i think i'll go investigate!

Doctor J

Piezo bridge output, I'd guess. You guys don't have them in your guitars yet?

GBX

thats a horrible looking guitar...

MagnumForce

Yeah but the Piezos are for acoustic guitars, wouldnt get a very good sound from an acoustic pickup on an electric guitar, although i suspect you're joking, so hard to tell in text! curse us, the technology generation! Couldnt find anything about these guitars re specifications or hardware unfortunatly. Where did you get the original pictures from, im all curious bout this now!

The basses made by the same people look a little better than the guitar:

gallery here

Karl Hungus

MagnumForce wrote:

Yeah but the Piezos are for acoustic guitars, wouldnt get a very good sound from an acoustic pickup on an electric guitar, although i suspect you're joking, so hard to tell in text! curse us, the technology generation!

No no, you get Piezos for electric guitars. It basically gives you an acoustic from your electric. John Petrucci of Dream Theater uses them live.

Creamy Goodness

GBX wrote:

thats a horrible looking guitar...

i agree with you there, it's not my thing, but there's no denying there's some amount of work gone into it.

therefore my answer of i'd love one if it was free...

Doctor J

MagnumForce wrote:

Yeah but the Piezos are for acoustic guitars, wouldnt get a very good sound from an acoustic pickup on an electric guitar, although i suspect you're joking, so hard to tell in text!

Not at all. Behold my Ibanez

MagnumForce

Karl Hungus wrote:

No no, you get Piezos for electric guitars. It basically gives you an acoustic from your electric. John Petrucci of Dream Theater uses them live.

ah, i see, its all a bit complicated, here was me thinking the Piezos were just for fitting to acoustic guitars, my error. sure if you have the midi output, and a high quality synth box you could create a highly realistic acoustic sound anyway (or with a acoustic modeling FX unit for that matter, but thats not built in) so having a Piezo pickup would be pointless, and if you did why would you have use a separate output for it, why not just have it switchable. The site the pictures above came from is under construction offering no details about the guitars whatsoever. This is gonna bother me until i find out!

Doctor J

They look like graphtech piezo saddles to me. You wouldn't see piezos anyway, since they live under the string saddles.

Have a look at L R Baggs X-bridge and T-bridge

Karl Hungus

MagnumForce wrote:

ah, i see, its all a bit complicated, here was me thinking the Piezos were just for fitting to acoustic guitars, my error. sure if you have the midi output, and a high quality synth box you could create a highly realistic acoustic sound anyway (or with a acoustic modeling FX unit for that matter, but thats not built in) so having a Piezo pickup would be pointless, and if you did why would you have use a separate output for it, why not just have it switchable. also, there is no sign of a Piezo pickup in the picture, but that of course doesnt mean its not there. The site the pictures above came from is under construction offering no details about the guitars whatsoever. This is gonna bother me until i find out!

Generally the piezo output goes to the mixing desk, and it is switchable. Midi is a bit more complicated, you'd often need a special pickup, and an extra piece of kit. Piezos do the job without anything else, so yeah, there are alternatives, but it's the handiest way to do the whole acoustic thing, and sounds pretty good. Besides, there's a lot more guitars that come standard with piezos than there is guitars that come standard with midi.

MagnumForce

Doctor J wrote:

They look like graphtech piezo saddles to me. You wouldn't see piezos anyway, since they live under the string saddles.

Have a look at L R Baggs X-bridge and T-bridge

yeah, edited my post after a little more reasearch. this making your electric sound like an acoustic business is new to me, useful as having two in one may be, i like my electrics electric and my acoustics acoustic

MagnumForce

Yeah, after more looking I can agree that it has the graphtech saddles. so the piezos act as both acoustic thingy(technical term) and midi pickup, yeah? if so, sweet, useful piece of kit. Now, i am satisfied, i can rest in piece knowing whats what on that mangled excuse for a guitar.

Thank's for the info, always happy to learn new things. especially since ill soon be in the market for a midi pick up and synth box and am short on space on my Kramer, which i bought specially to convert, for a roland midi pick up. If these piezo saddles do act as midi pick up, that'd be fantastic. although im starting to think they dont.

Karl Hungus

MagnumForce wrote:

Yeah, after more looking I can agree that it has the graphtech saddles. so the piezos act as both acoustic thingy(technical term) and midi pickup, yeah? if so, sweet, useful piece of kit. Now, i am satisfied, i can rest in piece knowing whats what on that mangled excuse for a guitar.

Thank's for the info, always happy to learn new things. especially since ill soon be in the market for a midi pick up and synth box and am short on space on my Kramer, which i bought specially to convert, for a roland midi pick up. If these piezo saddles do act as midi pick up, that'd be fantastic. although im starting to think they dont.

Eh, piezo saddles don't act as a midi pickup right off the boat, mind you. You'd need to get another pre-amp built in for that, and another output.

MagnumForce

It appears the GHOST pickup system offers compatibility with the Roland GR33 etc. guitar synth boxes. nice, could be just what im looking for. What price are these little buggers?

Edit: Sounds like too much trouble. **** it, my Kramers bridge is unusual and the GHOSTs wouldnt go on it anyway as far as i can tell, its a "licenced under Floyd" bridge, and its got a few major differences to an original Floyd. So **** it, ill find space for a Roland GK-2, ill jam it in there somewhere!

Ancient1

That yoke does nothing for me either...

KH - your sig is the funniest sh1t I've read in a while. Does it make you play faster too?

Damn i miss that pacman smiley...