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Sunrise Pickup The Sunrise Pickup has earned the respect of professional players on stage and in the studio for over 25 years. In that time it has proven itself as a reliable, tough, professional unit. This pickup and matching preamp represents the ultimate in the uncompromising search for a truly acoustic guitar sound capable of high sound pressure levels. The Sunrise Pickup mounts securely in the soundhole, and can be wired with endpin and mini connectors, allowing easy removal if desired. A long wire Sunrise Pickup with 24 inch cable is available for temporary installations that run the wire out of the soundhole. Sunrise Pickups will fit into 4 1/4" to 3 1/2" diameter soundholes. Sunrise Pickups work equally well for 6 and 12 string guitars, right or left-handed. All Sunrise Pickups have the unique design feature that allows the pickup to couple and sense the body resonance and top of the guitar its mounted in, and still maintain a 116dB feedback threshold. The string volumes can be set with 6 adjustable polepieces. The pickups have an injection molded black ABS composite housing sealed in epoxy, and are completely shielded from RF and hum. Sunrise Pickups have a transferable lifetime guarantee against defective materials or imperfect workmanship.

Sunrise Buffer Box - Preamp The Sunrise Preamp Buffer Box is a line matching device designed specifically to access the coupling feature built into Sunrise Pickups.The output of a Sunrise Pickup should be sent first to this preamp. Sunrise Preamp Buffer Boxes provide the pickup signal with 12dB of gain, high resolution, and impedance matching capabilities. The active 18 volt Bi-Polar powered circuit eliminates pickup loading and line loss due to long cable runs, and also delivers up to 4 years of battery life with 2) 9 volt Eveready Alkaline batteries. The S-B1 has two 1/4" parallel output jacks (Sunrise and Aux) which allows the same signal to be sent to two separate sources. The S-B2 is designed to preamp the Sunrise Pickup along with a piezo pickup with each signal being sent through it's own preamp circuit, and then to the outputs (Sunrise and Aux) with the piezo signal sent to Aux. The S-B1 and S-B2 produce the widest frequency response possible from a battery powered preamp, and allows the Sunrise Pickup to operate at it's full design capabilities.

National Reso-Phonic Lace Pickup The National/Lace pickup was designed by National Reso-Phonic Guitars and Lace Music Products. It is a double coil, humbucking, thin line pickup, designed to be affixed to the top of a guitar at the end of the fretboard under the strings. It is affixed with 3M double-stick tape making it removeable in the future. It is .200" thick allowing clearance of the strings. It has one lead wire that is provided with a 1/4" jack that can be attached to the strap button utilizing a small loop. Or, the pickup can be hardwired to any 1/4" jack that is installed into the side of the guitar in the traditional manner. This National/Lace pickup incorporates all of the best qualities of an extremely fat sounding humbucker while still being microphonic enough to amplify the nuances of the actual resonator vibrations emitting from the body itself. You can hear the tonal differences between a tricone and a single cone set up exactly the same.

AER Acoustic Pickup The AK15 plus is a two source Piezo crystal plus electret condenser microphone integrated in the endpin pickup. The two levels are pre-adjustable independently at the pre-amp and controlled with soundhole control (master plus added microphone).