Schatten Design's continuing quest to build the finest pickups, preamps, and related accessories in the world has produced some truly fine new products. Newly introduced at the 2010 Los Angeles NAMM show was a series of innovative pickups for Uprighnt Bass and for Steel String Acoustics. Also introduced was a new endpin jack preamp, The Player Preamp.
Listening to our customers, as we always have, has helped to provided us with a greater insight into the types of pickups and products that are needed.
We're going to ask those players using Schatten Pickups to send us their YouTube videos so that we can post them.
New Products
![]() NEW UST series for Steel String Acoustic Guitars utiliizes a piezo polymer film cable sensor...(more) |
NEW RB series for Upright Bass and for Rock-A-Billy Bass ...(more) |
![]() NEW Player series endpin jack preamps are single channel with the option of volume and tone thumbwheel controls...(more) |
![]() RG-03 models new jack assemblies have been added to the RG-03 series for Dobro style resonator instruments...(more) |
![]() NR-2 series for National style biscuit bridge reso's simply attaches to saddle or to the top of the biscuit...(more) |
![]() Original glass bottlenecks. A great accessory - available in two weights and 3 sizes...(more) |
![]() ![]() Strap-Jacks Are Now Available From Schatten Design Keep Your Guitar From Falling Off The Strap...(more) |
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Welcome To New Dealers
Frankenstein Guitar Works - Woodstock ON Oriskaney Stringed Instruments - Huntington PA
St. Blues Guitar Workshop - Memphis TN
Products Introduced At NAMM In Los Angeles - January 2010
New Under The Saddle Pickup System - The UST Series
New Endpin Jack Preamp Series - The Player Preamps
New Upright Bass Pickup Series - The RB Series for Bass and Rock-A-Billy Bass
YouTube Videos
Jack Fields - HFN-S2 Selmer
Blog
March 7/2010
Still hard at work on new stuff. Continuing with the
new archtop, new violin going out for beta testing next
week......here it is a Sunday and after I go and get a coffee at
Tim's, I think I'll get a bit further along with the archtop
project. Interesting instruments those, not much happening
acoustically and yet there are a lot of things to vibrate and make
assorted sounds on them.....
Feb 14/2010
I found this video that used to be up on our website
about three or four years ago. It was obviously made when I was
much younger and had a bit more hair......
the 'boss' speaks
Feb 10/2010
I'm going to ask for some input and suggestions here:
What are you guys looking for in a pickup? What's missing in
pickups in your opinion, what should be done differently, and what
should be there? You can drop me an email directly:
email Les
Oh yeah, for the good or the bad of it
(and it's a good thing the windows are closed up here in the
winter), I'm back to practicing the fiddle for at least a solid
hour a day. I played pretty well most stringed instruments along
the way, some acceptably, most not wonderfully. Taught banjo,
mandolin, and fiddle - for about 10 years and ended my playing
career playing not very good bass in a dance/swing/jazz band.
I'm going to start teaching my granddaughter to play
fiddle and I figured I had better try to re-learn where I was 20
years ago when I put it all down.
Les
Feb 3/2010
Coming up next: I get a chance to get back to work on
three new violin pickup designs that I've been playing with on and
off over the last half a year. There's never enough time to get
everything done when it's supposed to be, just too darn busy. To
those that have been patiently waiting for that new solid body
violin pickup....it is coming and it shouldn't be long. For the
other two violin pickups, well you'll just have to see them when
I'm finished - hopefully sometime later in the spring.
Since I don't get holidays and I haven't had a break
since before Christmas (what with new pickups and the NAMM show
and all), I'm going to take off Friday through Monday....
Les
Feb 2/2010
Well....we've just come off of a successful NAMM show
in LA and managed to get out just in between the monsoons. Liked
LA, glad to be home though. Ok, I just finished the design work,
beta testing, and release of the RB Upright Bass Pickups and the
UST series of under the saddle acoustic guitar pickups. Lot of
work there, glad that's done. Those are some really fine new
pickups.
While we were at it, we introduced a whole line of
Player series products with some really great low pricing - would
you believe a nice new North American built (actually built right
here in Canada) Endpin Jack Preamp - for less than Fifty Bucks?
Fifty Bucks! That's really good.
Les










