A Little Thunder
Patented electric guitar replacement pickup that allows simultaneous guitar + bass signal
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From GuitarWorld.com 8/8/2014 - Guitarist Andy Alt has introduced a new electric guitar pickup — dubbed "A Little Thunder" — that allows guitarists to play guitar & bass simultaneously. A Little Thunder, which was designed to replace a humbucker, adds a bass signal to the two lowest strings on electric guitars, leaving the signal of all six guitar strings in tact. The addition of the bass feature requires no physical modifications to the guitar: no drilling, routing or adding strings. Nor will guitarists need to replace 9V batteries or MIDI. The Kickstarter video features artists trying A Little Thunder for the first time, incl Jonny Two Bags (Social Distortion), Kirk Douglas (the Roots), Adam Levy (Norah Jones), Brad Oberhofer (Oberhofer) and many more. A Little Thunder was conceived, patented & created by Alt, the online marketing director for Steve Vai, and, along with Vai, co-founder of GuitarTV.com. Alt also serves as lead guitarist for Drake Bell of Nickelodeon’s Drake & Josh.