Hex pick-up

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A hex pick-up or hexaphonic pickup is a "six-way pickup " for electric guitars and related instruments with a separate output for each string.

This enables separate processing and reinforcement of each individual string. In contrast to the hex pick-up, a normal electric guitar pickup delivers the signals of all strings together on a single output.

The common area of ​​application for hex pick-ups today is the use as pickups for so-called guitar synthesizers or guitar-to- MIDI systems.

In the 1980s, Kramer Guitars had an electric guitar in its range that used a hex pick-up to arrange the amplified guitar signal per string in a stereo panorama.