Acoustron Guitars

Acoustron Guitars and Basses

Offering Unlimited Capabilities

Ultimately, your artistic expression is limited by the capability of your instrument. Acoustron guitars and basses push past the limits of other instruments, opening up new creative possibilities.

The heart of every Acoustron is its Variable Magnetic Shunt (VMS) sensor that focuses a wide-aperture magnetic field across the strings. VMS converts the motion of the strings, both laterally and vertically, into an extremely clean and detailed output signal, rich with harmonics extending past 18,000 Hz, a range far wider than any other electric guitar technology. The Acoustron VMS is unrivaled in its pick attack, finger detail, harmonic content, dynamic range, and true sustain.

Acoustron VMS guitars and basses can be supplied with conventional high-impedance outputs or with microphone-level balanced low impedance output through an XLR connector. The XLR low impedance output has the advantage og lower noise, greater dynamic range, and connection directly to your PA, studio console, audio interface, or dedicated microphone preamplifier. This opens up an entire new creative world to you because you can shape your tone with any audio processor or plugin ever made.ltimately, your artistic expression is limited by the capability of your instrument. Acoustron guitars and basses push past the limits of other instruments, opening up new creative possibilities.

The heart of every Acoustron is its Variable Magnetic Shunt (VMS) sensor that focuses a wide-aperture magnetic field across the strings. VMS converts the motion of the strings, both laterally and vertically, into an extremely clean and detailed output signal, rich with harmonics extending past 18,000 Hz, a range far wider than any other electric guitar technology. The Acoustron VMS is unrivaled in its pick attack, finger detail, harmonic content, dynamic range, and true sustain.

Acoustron VMS guitars and basses can be supplied with conventional high-impedance outputs or with microphone-level balanced low impedance output through an XLR connector. The XLR low impedance output has the advantage og lower noise, greater dynamic range, and connection directly to your PA, studio console, audio interface, or dedicated microphone preamplifier. This opens up an entire new creative world to you because you can shape your tone with any audio processor or plugin ever made.ltimately, your artistic expression is limited by the capability of your instrument. Acoustron guitars and basses push past the limits of other instruments, opening up new creative possibilities.

The heart of every Acoustron is its Variable Magnetic Shunt (VMS) sensor that focuses a wide-aperture magnetic field across the strings. VMS converts the motion of the strings, both laterally and vertically, into an extremely clean and detailed output signal, rich with harmonics extending past 18,000 Hz, a range far wider than any other electric guitar technology. The Acoustron VMS is unrivaled in its pick attack, finger detail, harmonic content, dynamic range, and true sustain.

Acoustron VMS guitars and basses can be supplied with conventional high-impedance outputs or with microphone-level balanced low impedance output through an XLR connector. The XLR low impedance output has the advantage og lower noise, greater dynamic range, and connection directly to your PA, studio console, audio interface, or dedicated microphone preamplifier. This opens up an entirely new creative world to you because you can shape your tone with any audio processor or plugin ever made.

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The K-Lab

• Ever wonder why guitar pickups sound different?

• Does the kind of wood used to make the guitar matter?

• Does it really matter what kind of magnet or type of wire is used in a guitar pickup?

We decided to find out, definitively, the answer to these and the many other questions of tone and sound that are so often debated.
In 1977, we established the premiere research laboratory dedicated to the analysis and perfection of stringed music instruments, and their associated amplifiers, loudspeakers, and effects processor. Known as The K-Lab, we have one-of-a-kind custom made electroacoustic analysis equipment and test fixtures that allows us to examine in the most minute detail every aspect of tone.

We can see the innermost workings of a guitar pickup, revealing details about its tone that have been previously unknown or not fully understood.
Whether we’re studying a guitar pickup, tone wood, a new loudspeaker, or the tonal differences among different amplifier circuits, we begin by subjecting the device under test to three different measurement that feature MLS, wavelet analysis & LogChirp analysis using either pseudo-random noise or logarithmic chirps as stimuli, depending on the data set requirements, along with straightforward Sinusoidal Sweeps.

A combination of FFT, RTA and ‘Live’ Transfer Function measurements, combined with Leq and 1/125-octave frequency analysis, permit us to view physical phenomena associated with music instruments and their components (such as: frequency response, impedance, linearity, multiple forms of distortion, and component/material-level non-linear behaviors), from three different points of view simultaneously.

This holistic approach is validated by the consistency of these measurements. Ask any expert technician, achieving unambiguous consistency is the correct approach that a researcher should always adopt.• Ever wonder why guitar pickups sound different?

• Does the kind of wood used to make the guitar matter?

• Does it really matter what kind of magnet or type of wire is used in a guitar pickup?

We decided to find out, definitively, the answer to these and the many other questions of tone and sound that are so often debated.

We established a premiere research laboratory dedicated to the analysis and perfection of stringed music instruments, and their associated amplifiers, loudspeakers, and effects processor. Known as The K-Lab, we have one-of-a-kind custom made electroacoustic analysis equipment and test fixtures that allows us to examine in the most minute detail every aspect of tone.

We can see the innermost workings of a guitar pickup, revealing details about its tone that have been previously unknown or not fully understood. Whether we’re studying a guitar pickup, tone wood, a new loudspeaker, or the tonal differences among different amplifier circuits, we begin by subjecting the device under test to three different measurement that feature MLS, wavelet analysis and LogChirp analysis using either pseudo-random noise or logarithmic chirps as stimuli, depending on the data set requirements, along with straightforward Sinusoidal Sweeps.

A combination of FFT, RTA and ‘Live’ Transfer Function measurements, combined with Leq and 1/125-octave frequency analysis, permit us to view physical phenomena associated with music instruments and their components (such as: frequency response, impedance, linearity, multiple forms of distortion, and component/material-level non-linear behaviors), from three different points of view simultaneously.

This holistic approach is validated by the consistency of these measurements. Ask any expert technician, achieving unambiguous consistency is the correct approach that a researcher should always adopt.