Introducing "The Quack Buster", PUTW's $60 on-board tone patch. We are quite proud to introduce one of our most successful products to date. The Quack Buster is a very simple to install soundboard transducer that is designed to be used with guitars that have existing saddle type pickups installed. As the name implies, the Quack Buster eliminates most if not all of the irritating piezo 'quack' from saddle type pickups, while at the same time adding warmth, depth, and harmonic detail to the signal.

The Quack Buster is installed by attaching its output wire directly to the existing saddle pickup output wire either at the front end of an on-board pre-amp, or directly to the output jack for passive systems. The combined pickup signals interact with each other in many positive ways, and result is a signal that is warm, detailed, and (in most cases) much more feedback resistant then the saddle pickup would be by itself.

Rather than adding a second channel to one's pickup system and enduring the added complexity and cost of doing this, the Quack Buster is designed to integrate seamlessly with the existing pickup system with no permanent modifications or alterations. Quack Busters have been successfully integrated with virtually every saddle pickup on the market, and this includes Fishman, LR Baggs, Highlander, Artec, D-tar, Headway, RMC, Takamine, Ovation, and Ibanez. The only products that they do not work with are the B-band and Schertler Bluestick pickups because of impedance and connector issues.

How does the Quack Buster work?

1. The Quack Buster produces between 20 and 30% of the over-all signal (depending on the output strength of the saddle pickup), and captures a sense of 'air' as well as the wood & personality of the guitar. Saddle pickups do no do this because they are focused primarily on picking up the strings.
2. The Quack Buster eliminates the irritating 'piezo quack' of saddle pickups by temporarily absorbing the over-voltage spikes that are the cause of this type of distortion. This unique benefit is caused by the capacitance of the Quack Buster temporarily absorbing, then smoothly releasing the over-voltage spikes produced by the saddle pickup.
3. The Quack Buster improves feedback rejection by drifting slightly out of phase with the saddle pickup signal when the guitar begins to go into a feedback mode. There is no loss of detail or other strange artifacts caused by this, and volume levels can be typically raised by a factor of ten before filtering or monitor levels need to be adjusted.

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