The Acousti-Phonic preamp sounds remarkably like a studio-quality acoustic guitar. It's downright spooky to hear an acoustic guitar, yet see the sound being produced on a solid body electric guitar. Your eyes won't believe your ears!.
The Acousti-Phonic is renowned for its exceptionally good sound quality. Musicians are often surprised to learn that the mag signal passed through a unity-gain preamp, as they swear it sounds like it's going "straight out". If you need to bypass the
It's the difference between playing in a garage and playing in a cathedral. The Acousti-Phonic adds a depth to your magnetic sound without altering your tone. People phone Graph Tech and say, "I installed the Acousti-Phonic, and after I got off stage
The PC board measures 1-5/8" x 1-1/8". With the connectors on, it's about 3/8" high. Piggybacked with the Hexpander, they are 1/2" high.
You can add a tone control to the piezo circuit, as shown in the user's guide. You can't add a master tone pot just before the output jack. The Acousti-Phonic doesn't tolerate having anything between the board and the output jack because it interfere
There seems to be confusion about stacked pots. A lot of people think they work like the ones on car stereos, where you push in and adjust one pot (bass) and pull out and adjust another pot (treble). These aren't available for guitars. Stacked pots a
Blend pots for guitars are like crossfadersis, where both pots are full-up when the dial is centered, and each one fades as you turn to each side, leaving the other at full volume. A wider variety of sounds are available when you can control both the
This works for two volumes, but not for a volume and a tone. You would have to turn the volume all the way up to roll off your treble. Try a stacked pot instead, which has two independent pots with concentric knobs.
There are a lot of functions wrapped up in the Stereo Switched Jack, so you have to have a good understanding of the Acousti-Phonic to make changes in this area. The main function of the jack is to turn off the battery when no cable is installed. N
The Acousti-Phonic needs a minimum of 7v to operate properly and works fine on anything from 9 to 18 volts. This is a useful feature when you are installing it on an instrument that already has an 18v active pickup system and you want to avoid having
Yes, but you will have no acoustic or mag output unless the Hexpander is plugged into a MIDI converter. This is only a practical option if you are always using the guitar with a MIDI converter, such as in studio or some stage setups. An on-board batt
Yes, the Piezo pot with Mid/Dark Switch is an acoustic pot to blend piezo sound with your magnetic sound, and the push/pull switch toggles two equalization options, a “mid-boost” and a “bassy dark" setting. It provides two-tone options on the acousti
We only stock our switches in chrome finish, but the switch is a regular on/off/on SPDT mini toggle, available at most guitar parts retailers. You can special-order the QuickSwitch harness-only by phone (for half the price), but you may find it easie
Yes. If you turn the acoustic volume down to zero or set the QuickSwitch to Mag, your guitar will play like a regular electric guitar. The only difference is that you need the battery to be good even to run on mag only, as this signal does pass throu
If your battery dies, you get no sound, not even your magnetic pickups. When using an alkaline battery, 500 hours of battery life can be expected (350 hours more than any other acoustic system). This means you will have to change your battery twice a
Yes, but you have to decide how you wil use it, and what's most important to you, because there are at least three ways of wiring dual jacks, and each has advantages and disadvantages. Check out the wiring diagrams page for more information.
There is a quirk when installing the Acousti-Phonic in a guitar with this style of string loading and a Tune-O-Matic style bridge because the strings load through metal ferrules embedded in the wood of the body. The ghost saddles are non-conductive,
The ghost Acousti-Phonic offers 7 string compatibility right out of the box for acoustic sound. If you would like to use more than seven, you would need to purchase an additional summing board (PE-5017-00) and dual connector cable (PE-5021-00). Thi
If you have an instrument with a metal bridge plate, it would be good practice to ground that plate rather than leave it floating because the bridge is a big chunk of metal near the pickups and their wires, which are high-impedance and thus prone to
All of our wiring diagrams depict mag connections at the wiper of a volume pot as this is most common place where connection is usually made, however, this is not always the case. In some case this can be at a switch instead. Just think of it this wa