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LR Baggs iBeam Active Acoustic Guitar Pickup and Preamp System

Plug in and play with the natural sound of your acoustic guitar. This pickup maintains perfect string balance and provides full dynamic range. 32 People rated this product:

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The iBeam Active System combines a patent pending bridge plate transducer with an all-discrete class "A" endpin preamp that enables you to simply "plug-in-and-play". The user installable iBeam reproduces the natural tone of an acoustic guitar while maintaining perfect string balance and providing full dynamic range.

"I finally played my first gig with the iBeam, and it was magnificent. It is by far the best any acoustic has ever sounded for me in any live situation."
-Eddie Bush, Cfox endorser

The patent-pending iBeam itself is the heart of the system and weighs only 1/3rd of an ounce. This revolutionary bridge plate transducer easily sticks to the bridge plate on the inside of the guitar and does not affect the acoustic tone of the guitar in any way. The iBeam is microphonic enough to hear the rich (but correct) texture of finger squeak and top tapping, but is resistant to feedback and gives you excellent amplified sound without a hint of piezo quack. Included with each iBeam is a placement jig that allows you to install the pickup in minutes and get the ideal placement for the transducer inside the guitar.

"The tone of the iBeam is unbelievable, or more appropriately, totally believable. Transparent, acoustic, balanced, very true to the guitar."
- Rick Rubin, Dutch's Music

The iBeam preamp is made up of class "A" discrete circuitry and built on the Stereo strapjack Plus. Pre-tuned to deliver that great LR Baggs performance from the iBeam in any situation, it is ultra-quiet and faithfully amplifies the sound and dynamics of the iBeam. There is even a second passive channel available if you would like to add a magnetic or undersaddle pickup to compliment the ibeam. zZounds is an authorized dealer of LR Baggs products.

Weight: 107 grams w/battery

Battery Type: Single 9V

Current Consumption: .3 mA

Battery Life: 1500+ hours (alkaline)

Low Cut Filter: Fixed, 12dB/oct. @35 Hz

Input Impedance: 10 Megohms

Signal to Noise: -94dB, unweighted

Output Level: -10dB

Output Impedance: 600 ohms

Bass EQ: +/-12dB @ 100 Hz

Treble EQ: +/-12db @ 12 kHz

Dimensions and Weight in Packaging: Shipping Weight: 0 lbs; Shipping Dimensions: 7 x 4 x 2 in

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Sound: This is deffinately the best acoustic pickup I've come across. Truely produces the sound of your acoustic guitar. Very little problems with feedback. It doesn't do a half bad job on recording either. Quality: Best money I've spent on my acoustic set-up. Value: great value

Style of Music: Roots Rock

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Sound: I have one of these pickups on each of my three acoustic guitars. I initially put one on my baby taylor and it made it sound so good plugged in that I had them installed on both of my Martins. It's the best pick-up you can find for the price and when you combine it with the lr baggs para DI you can really tweak the sound a good bit. Overall: I've been using I-Beam pick-ups for about 4 years now and will continue to use them.

Style of Music: rock, blues, jazz, roots- rock, gospel

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