The Joy of Hexaphonic Pickups

Hex pickups allow for each string of your guitar to be isolated for full control and manipulation in the way you choose. here we have Alex Ball taking a look at their history and development over the years. With this feature you can spread strings across the stereo field; apply hexaphonic effects, create open source guitar synths, have microtonal tunings and much more. 

AND if you tune into the JOMOX episode of our 'midierror meets...' series, you'll hear Jurgen talking about a polyphonic harmonic distortion circuit which he added to a guitar back in 1988...pre Jomox... and it still works! 

Here are the time stamps.... 

0:00 Hex Education

1:44 Demo 1: Hefty Chopper

2:52 Breakdown of Demo 1

3:33 How Sub Six Works

4:30 Demo 2: Delay-sychain

5:20 Breakdown of Demo 2

5:53 But I don't have six amps?

7:07 Demo 3: Dirty Hex

8:10 Breakdown of Demo 3

8:53 Triple Ring Mod?

9:05 Demo 4: Ring my Bell

9:47 Thoughts and applications for the Sub Six

11:40 Outro: Hex Filtering

More from Alex Ball: Alex Ball

• Artists Favourite Calibre Tracks 21-Oct-26
• Mulch Box 21-Oct-26
• Look Mum No Computer Interview 20-Oct-26
• KORG MS2000R Hardware-Level Emulator 20-Oct-26
• STR-500 Gestural Granular Synthesizer 16-Oct-26