FISHMAN Powerbridge AST

The Fishman POWERBRIDGE AST Acoustic pickup for Electric Guitar. Reveal new colours and textures hidden
inside your electric guitar.

The Fishman Powerbridge AST is the world's finest acoustic pickup for your electric guitar. The AST version fits all
American Standard Telecaster style guitars with a closer lead pickup spacing design. The electric guitar contains a
wealth of different sounds. But the rich organic quality of an acoustic has never been one of them - until now. The
Fishman Powerbridge System can reveal new colours and textures hidden inside your electric guitar. The Fishman Powerbridge
Pickup is built into a high quality, made-in-the-USA replacement bridge. Piezo elements integrated into each bridge saddle
respond directly to the acoustic energy of your electric guitar - providing an "acoustic" sound quality. On its own, the
Powerbridge Pickup provides a subtle and intimate "acoustic" sound. But the real fun begins when you blend Piezo and magnetic
signals together. With the complete Fishman Powerbridge System (buy the Powerchip for a mixed mono out) you can blend the
Powerbridge Pickup with clean magnetic sounds for bright, percussive tones - or with your favourite distortion settings for
a range of hybrid clean and dirty tones. The Powerbridge System also affords you a wide range of signal routing options.
Send the Powerbridge signal with your magnetic signal to a single guitar amp or feed it to a PA and the magnetic signal to
your onstage amp for lush, roomfilling "electro-acoustic" effects. You can plug the Powerbridge directly into many amplifiers
with excellent results (minimum 1 M Ohm input impedance for best results). This is called a "passive" system, because there
is no "active" preamp (no battery) between the Powerbridge and the amp's input. To control the volume of the Powerbridge
Pickup, a special 5 M Ohm volume pot is included, there's plenty of room for it on a Telecaster style control plate. Every
Powerbridge Pickup includes a TRS (Tip/Ring/Sleeve) Stereo Output Jack specifically intended for use with the Fishman Powerbridge
System. This Stereo output replaces your existing Mono output jack. You can expand the Powerbridge with the complete line of
Powertronics dedicated preamps, Powerchip (recommended not required - gives Mixed Mono Out, Piezo Phase Switch and Piezo
Trim Control), Powermix and Powerblend.

The main features of the Fishman POWERBRIDGE AST include: