oPik - Optical Guitar Pickup

[RockYoWorld]

I was mindlessly scrolling through facebook when I saw an ad for a kickstarter campaign for oPik, an optical pickup. Have you guys seen this yet? It uses optics to generate an electrical current at the frequency of the strings instead of magnets. Not sure how good they actually sound from the limited examples in the videos they have, but it does let you change the volume of individual strings with an app on your phone. It's pretty cool, but not sure if I'd ever want to buy one quite yet.

Here's the link to the Kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/li ... tar-pickup



And here's a video of a guy making a strat sound like a classical guitar using nylon strings:


Biggest con to it that I see is that it needs to be powered through their proprietary power supply that is the size of a guitar pedal. 150 mA at 9V supply must be too much for a standard 9V battery in a guitar like active pickups???

[JeffBeck]

I don't know, sounds like an expensive way to sound like you have dirty strings that need to be changed.

I bet there's other features of it that might be cool, though. This is probably the tip of the iceberg.