A Light4Sound product

The ōPik optical guitar pickup

Making music with light.

Hear it

Will it chug?

Görebläster Körpse-härvest Lunden (Beast of Nod) tries out the ōPik, gives his thoughts, and answers the eternal question… will it chug?

Why optical

Response
The ōPik responds at the speed of light. We’re not kidding. The ōPik bounces light off the strings, and there is pretty much no delay. You are truly making music with light.
Output Gain
The ōPik is an active pickup - the electronics are in the pickup housing and include the preamp, with gain settings that are programmable from the ōPik app.
Programmable
The settings on the ōPik can be adjusted and refined with the ōPik mobile app. Independently set the individual string volumes, output gain and set high- and low-pass filters.
No Magnetic Drag
There are no magnets, so there isn’t any magnetic drag, either. That means more sustain, and who doesn’t like that!? Nigel Tufnel would certainly approve.
String Types
The ōPik works with a variety of different string types - steel, brass, nylon and other plastics, rubber, non-ferrous metal, frankly - just about anything that you can string on your guitar.
Frequency Response
Broader, more even frequency response across the whole range. ōPik works differently than magnetic pickups, and can be dynamically tuned to suit your taste.

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From the workshop

April 25, 2024
Building!
The ōPik is now under construction in our San Francisco factory and we look forward to shipping this units over the course of the spring and summer. Orders placed now should ship…
December 18, 2022
Using Different String Types with the ōPik
One of the things that we are most excited about with the ōPik is the fact that it will work with just about any guitar string. Clearly, that opens up a lot of options for electric…
May 5, 2022 · Production
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