Acoustic Guitar - HFN Steel String Guitar Pickup

Schatten Design is an innovative Canadian company that specialises in original handmade acoustic pickups.  The company has a tailored pickup solution for acoustic and classical guitar, banjo, resonator, mandolin, violin, piano, bouzouki, folk instruments and everything in between. Schatten pickups are used by performers, luthiers, and manufacturers all around the world.
 

HFN Series Pickups for Steel String Acoustic Guitars

The HFN is designed to give you a full, rich sound and will reproduce exactly what your guitar sounds like.  Along with being simple to install, these pickups exhibit excellent feedback rejection and good string to string balance. All HFN's are designed to be used with a preamp. For best results the HFN passive pickup may be paired up with one of our outboard preamps.

The HFN series of pickups utilizes an elegant combination of materials: 3D printed ABS for its main structure and arching along with a light weight brass shell for its noise shielded piezo unit. Total weight of the pickup is a very light 0.2 ounces (7 grams). It will not affect the acoustic sound of the instrument when not in use. The HFN will fit virtually any X braced steel string acoustic guitar whether it has a pin bridge or not. The only hole that needs to be drilled is for the endpin jack.

The HFN series for steel string acoustic guitars is available in three basic model ranges: 
The HFN Player (passive) which does not come with a preamp. The HFN Player is also available in two different base lengths. The regular HFN which fits virtually all guitars and the HFN 'Short' which fits Double and Triple '0' guitars and those guitars with very limited space between the 'X' bracing.
The HFN Active which comes with a single channel endpin jack preamp, Also available with volume and tone control thumbwheels
and the HFN Artist which comes with a two channel endpin jack preamp that can be run on phantom power.Also available with one or two thumbwheel controls



Sandarac Ltd. is the registered distributor for Schatten Design Acoustic Pickups in the UK and Ireland. Trade enquiries welcome. Please contact us for details.
 

Price: £121.00

Model:Please select ...HFN Player (Passive) (£121.00)HFN Player (Passive) SHORT (£121.00)HFN Artist (dual channel) (£213.00)HFN Artist (dual channel) +1 (£230.00)HFN Artist (dual channel) +2 (£240.00)

The HFN series of pickups utilizes an elegant combination of materials: 3D printed ABS for its main structure and arching along with a light weight brass shell for its noise shielded piezo unit. Total weight of the pickup is a very light 0.2 ounces (7 grams). It will not affect the acoustic sound of the instrument when not in use.

The HFN will fit virtually any X braced steel string acoustic guitar whether it has a pin bridge or not. The only hole that needs to be drilled is for the endpin jack.

The pickup is designed to allow it to flex and move along with the soundboard of the instrument. There is a certain amount of flex built into the arching of the pickup base and as well there is both some flex allowed and some isolation from the soundboard provided by the 3M VHB mounting tape.

Utilising a single piezo sensing element that comes into contact with the soundboard of the guitar through the 'feet' of the pickup base allows for several things. First, the HFN is able to sample from more than one spot and to sample those spots across a span of time. Second, since we are able to do all this with just the one element, the chances of creating mechanical phasing issues caused by having to use more than one sensing element is eliminated.

HFN Installation Instructions

The HFN Active pairs the HFN sensor with a single channel Player endpin jack preamp. The Active VT includes thumbwheel volume and tone controls.

HFN Active Installation Instructions

The HFN Artist pickups pair the HFN sensor with  dual channel Artist II endpin jack preamp. The HFN Artist Plus 1 has a single thumbwheel volume control for one channel. TThe HFN Artist Plus 2 has two thumbwheel volume controls, providing one volume control for each channel.

HFN Artist Installation Intructions