Hex pick-up
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.