General Information | Pickup the World

Soundboard Transducers (SBT’s) – These offer the most accurate acoustic tone. These pickups are ideal for recording work and can produce recording quality sound. The response is smooth and detailed (much like a microphone), but is much more feedback resistant in live settings. For loud or large band situations, we recommend adding a UST. SBT's are mounted with a thin, double sided adhesive tape to the soundboard.

Compression Pickups – These high performance pickups are compressed under the bridge feet of instruments with floating bridges. They are paper thin and give a perfect balance of string and body sensing, without damping the natural vibration transfer. They also have a relatively hot output and are very feedback resistant. These pickups are custom made to fit the bridge base perfectly and are invisible except for the output wire. Both mono and stereo versions are available for most instruments.

Under the Saddle Transducers (UST’s) – These offer a natural woody tone that has a higher feedback resistance than an SBT, and a fast attack envelope that cuts through loud band stage volumes nicely. The sound can be a bit ‘one dimensional’ sounding for solo performances, but this is easily expanded by adding an SBT pickup in a ‘Duo’ configuration. All of our UST pickups install though a small hole on one end of the instrument’s saddle slot.