2010 CATALOG - Jedistar

Strings.
We love them all.
Amplified strings show up everywhere. From Broadway to live
television events, jazz clubs, symphonic halls, film scoring studios and
town hall hoedowns, the challenge is always the same. How do you
preserve the beautiful warm wood tones of these acoustic instruments
once you turn up the volume on stage?
“I basically torture my violins and pickups
when I’m on stage. The V-300 Concert
Series Pickup takes the abuse better than
any pickup I’ve ever used. It sounds warm
and precise night after night, and that’s why
it has become an integral part of my tone.”
– Nick Hoffman, fiddle player
and guitarist for Kenny Chesney
Of course your instrument’s natural timbre is made up of a
distinctive balance of resonant wood and vibrating strings
pushing the air. So what is the one pickup that could faithfully
preserve that unique sound among a wide range of stringed
instruments, the one pickup that could handle those violin
highs and cello lows? Answer? There isn’t one. That’s why we
have researched and created specific pickups for each different
kind of acoustic stringed instrument.
Larry Fishman, a dedicated double bassist himself, started it all with the
easily installed BP-100, which was all about handling his
upright bass’ powerful, low frequency tones. (It’s still the choice among
professionals almost thirty years after its release, along with
its successor, the Full Circle). And our new top-of-the-line
Concert Series pickups are a result of our devotion to
the differences between violins and violas and cellos –
and about a billion* hours in the lab. Most exciting is
that this new series is designed to take advantage of our
Aura Acoustic Imaging technology.
*May be a slight exaggeration