Ubertar Hexaphonic Guitar Pickups

Polyphonic Pickups:

See the drop-down menu below for prices for hex and quad pickups.

All pickups are available as single coils (e.g. six single coils make one hex single coil pickup) or humbuckers (one hex = 12 coils). Plus pickups are made with my HC coils. Great tone, virtually noiseless (make sure to connect your ground pin to bridge/strings like you would with any electromagnetic pickup).

**PLEASE NOTE** I have discontinued standard, as plus have been far more popular and it makes life easier to just make one kind. If you prefer that sound, standard are still available as little torpedoes and 40 caliber pickups on the one and two string pickup page.

For 7 string, email me.

For a modular design, or to set the coils to custom spacing, check out my HC-series pickups on the one-and-two-string-pickup page. 6-conductor cable is available for wiring them as a hex pickup.

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color (and style for bass):

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Breakout Boxes:

A breakout box is how you get each of the multiple signals (6 for hexaphonic, 4 for quadraphonic, etc.) to your guitar amplifier(s) or other inputs. I have two main types of breakout box, hexaphonic and hexaphonic/stereo, which can be made for hexaphonic, heptaphonic, or quadraphonic.

The input of either type of breakout box is a 7 pin female din connector. 13 pin din connector versions are also available, by request. In the hexaphonic box, there are six 1/4" outputs (hexaphonic version), one for each string. A 7 pin cable connects from your guitar to the box. A 7 pin output connector for your guitar is included with purchase of a breakout box.

The hexaphonic/stereo breakout box has the same features as the hexaphonic box and additional stereo outputs (two 1/4" jacks). It also has switches for each string signal, to choose left, right or hex mode for each string. In hex mode, a string's signal will go to its individual hex output only, and not to left or right. All strings in left mode will come out of the left output as well as all hex outputs of strings in left mode. All strings in right mode will come out of the right output as well as all hex outputs of strings in right mode.

This gives you many options–you can divide the strings in any combination of left and right (but no individual string can go to both left and right simultaneously) and process them in groups. For example, you can send low E and A to the left channel out to an octave pedal and bass amp, and the remaining strings to the right channel, to a guitar amp. Maybe you want to add fuzz only to the high E string, so you send that out in hex mode. There are all kinds of things you can do.

Both boxes come in an aluminum enclosure. A plastic version of the hexaphonic breakout box is also available with all six outputs on one side. The aluminum enclosures have outputs three to a side.

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Cable:

7 pin cable, 10 feet, white: $15 (six conductors, plus ground, one unused pin)

Acoustic Adapter:

The acoustic adapter is for pickups in a strat-style case to mount in the sound hole of an acoustic guitar. This can be a hex single, a hex-humbucker-in-a-single-case, or a one or two string pickup. The acoustic adapter is not compatible with Jumbo size guitars. The pickup is height adjustable in the adapter, with screws and springs like in an electric guitar. With these, it's generally best to adjust the pickup as close to the strings as you can get away with.