Journal
News from the ōPik workshop: production, firmware, and the road from Kickstarter.
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…
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…
· Production
It continues to be a challenging time to get components for our circuit boards. We have been in the chip market for a while now, and during the last few months, there have been a…
· Production
Yahoo! The firmware is finally up and running! It was a more herculean effort than we had hoped for—we have been having a mysterious issue with the over-the-air firmwareupdates…
· Production
After all of the supply issues in the past year, it is great to be able to say that we have been producing and assembling ōPiks! It’s a limited run, as we are still running tests…
A nice piece by Heiko Hoepfinger in Premier Guitar!
The amazing new ōPik packaging.
Video· Videos
Today we’re featuring a video we took a while back with Brett Hool of We are the West. Great having him in studio and looking forward to more studio visits very soon!
We wanted to give you some detail of the ōPik app and give you a sense of how it works. As you can see, the ‘main’ feature is to give you individual string volume control, with a…
The sensors on the ōPik are designed for a string spacing of 10mm at the bridge pickup location—or 50mm measured from the middle of the low E string to the middle of the high E…
The ōPik is pretty simple on the outside, of course, but inside, there’s a lot going on, as you can see from this animation. At the bottom, there is a stack of printed circuit…
Part of the beauty of the ōPik is the ability to really customize the tone of pickup on a per string basis. That includes controlling gains, filters, and individual string…
Our app is going through a redesign that make it look (and work!) better. As you can see, you are able to control the individual string settings, filters and gain settings from the…
· Kickstarter
We blasted past our target and finished at 188% of goal on Kickstarter. Thank you to all of our supporters!
· Kickstarter
Here at Light4Sound, we have been discussing and testing battery packs for the ōPik—and getting a lot of requests and questions on the topic. After careful consideration, we are…
· Kickstarter
We crossed the line! The ōPik is fully backed! We are sort of speechless… it is wonderful to see that there are now over a 100 backers from all over the world, and that the ōPik…
· Kickstarter
We know some of your have been waiting a long time for this…. and so have we! So we have good news—we are bringing the ōPik to Kickstarter this month. The exact date is still a…
By Dr. W. S. Haddad We get a lot of great questions about our optical pickup, the oPik, many of which are about things like latency, tracking, response to string bending, and MIDI…
Video
We are headed to NAMM in Nashville in a few weeks, and look forward to meeting a few of you! Let us know if you are planning to be there and stop by our booth. Also, we are hard at…
VideoA big thank you to the Blue Bear School of Music for hosting us earlier this month. We had a great opportunity to let a number of musicians try some the oPik, in both the guitar…
So, we do get this question a lot: "What exactly is the oPik?" The short answer is that the oPik is an optical guitar pickup. And, in a lot of ways, the oPik is just like a…
