Schatten Design
CH-1 Harp Pickup For Small Harps£126.00
Schatten Design
CH-3 Artist Harp Pickup with Integrated Preamp
First introduced in April 2006 and having undergone a series of continuous improvements over the years, the CH-3 Artist pickup system works flawlessly on both Celtic harps and Pedal harps. Complete with its' own integrated preamp, this pickup delivers full, rich sound quality and ease of installation in one neat package.
Simply put, what you get out of this pickup system is the exact sound of your harp. It allows your harp to sound just like you know it sounds - fully acoustic, tonaly open, and warm.
Since the pickup system comes with it's own integrated preamp, there is no need for an external outboard preamp. The only things that you will need are a 9 volt alkaline battery and a regular jack, 'guitar', cable to plug in. The CH-3 Artist can be plugged directly into any amplifier, P.A. or mixer.
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This pickup system comes with a specially designed preamp. Both the pickup and preamp install non-invasively. There are no holes to drill and no modification is required to the instrument in order to install this system.
The CH-3 Artist pickup system comes complete and ready to install. Installation of the pickup sensor is quite simple. The unit adheres to the soundboard with the special mounting putty or, for more permanent installations, the supplied 3M VHB tape adhesive. The mounting of the preamp is equally easy as the preamp assembly simply attaches with Velcro to an inside surface of the sound box.
The feet of the pickup base are fully articulated. This means that the pickup will fit the curvature inherent in virtually any harp soundboard quickly and easily and without modification to either the pickup or the harp.
The pickup base also also has sufficient clearance height to enable installation in harps with internal reinforcing rods (such as in a Ravenna), and sufficient clearance span to more easily fit harps with larger string strips, such as found in many pedal harps.
The pickup sensor is designed to be installed approximately one-third of the way up from the bass end of the soundboard.
The pickup spans the string strip which allows the piezo unit to sample sound over a large area of a harp's soundboard. The pickup's feet and arched structure is made from 3D printed ABS; this has allowed for air chambers and a vibration transmissive structure to be created. The result is a pickup that just sounds great.
CH-3 Artist Installation Instructions