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To be or not to be...
Preamps
A lot of guitar players ask,
“Do I need a Preamp to make the Prismatone™ Pickup work?”
The answer is a resounding “Yes” or “No” depending on where and how you’re going to be playing. It all basically comes down to Studio or Stage?
That is the question you must answer for the Prismatone™ guitar gods to decide which is best for your particular set-up.
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Vintage Preamps
Vintage-era Preamps are avaible with a sidejack, an endpin jack, or built into the battery box. The original Prismatone Pickup was sold with a sidejack preamp that required 22.5 volts of power delivered via phantom power from an amp or an external battery box. Our Vintage-era preamp is as close as possible to the original. Nowadays the 22.5 volt batteries are hard to come by so we've created a new battery box that uses three 9 volt batteries to power the vintage preamps.
External Battery Boxes are sold seperatley from the Vintage preamp sicde jack and Endpin jack. Battery Boxes are not needed to power our modern Preamp that requires only one 9-volt battery.