A well-engineered system for adding acoustic sounds to your favorite fixed-bridge Strat.
Imagine one guitar that is perfect for blues or rock and roll, has the ultimate clean sound, is great for jazz and has a great acoustic sound without feedback. Sounds like an expensive dream, but chances are that you already own this guitar. It's your beloved Strat. And all that it has been waiting for to unleash this hidden potential is the vibraton bridge pickup, the X-Bridge from L.R. Baggs.
When LR Baggs decided to apply their fifteen years of transducer design experience to amplifying the electric guitar, they were faced with the task of first choosing a guitar and then a bridge. The Strat was a pretty obvious choice. But when they interviewed guitar makers about bridges, they found that there was no existing bridge that had the qualities that they were looking for. So they designed their own. By starting with a clean slate, LR Baggs did not have to shoehorn their pickups into an off-the-shelf bridge. They could then design the bridge and pickups as an integrated system without compromise. The product of their research, the X-Bridge is beautiful, responsive and dynamic, and has a jaw-dropping sound that redefines what a Strat can do.
The Fixed X-Bridge is made as a replacement for the basic Strat-type fixed bridge, but will replace many other fixed bridges with some modifications. It is intended for use only with guitars that have through-body string holes. The passive stereo kit provides for independent outputs for the magnetic and X-Bridge pickups via the tip and ring contacts of a stereo jack. A volume pot for the passive X-Bridge takes the place of the middle tone control. The tone functions are summed onto the other tone pot.
