Sustainiac Rocks! Infinite Guitar Sustain

This unit installs seamlessly, replacing your neck pickup with the Sustainiac pickup/driver and the circuit board goes inside the guitar cavity near the volume control. I did have a 9V battery pocket routed into the back of the guitar. With the optional housing available it looks professional. I had my local shop do the install since it can be involved. Now I have REAL sustain which is infinite and it's all controlable at my finger tips. You should go to the Sustainiac website for all the details. This is my most valuable component in my rig. Now I can sustain like Trey Anastasio! You WILL turn heads.

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[PhysicalGraffiti10]

Will this effect tone as well? I would love to put this in possibly both pickups but I don't it to mess with the tone I already have.

[HappyOrangeTheBand]

@PhysicalGraffiti10 When you have just one Sustainiac pickup installed (neck) position, it sustains your bridge pickup and doesn't affect that tone which is great. Now when system is off and you are playing through both or neck, you get the tone of the supplied pickup (which sounds good to me). To answer you, you can't run 2 Sustainiac pickups in the same guitar to date. Even if you could, you would have the tone of the supplied pickups and not longer be able to have your original pickup tone

[dotsunmoon]

You have had this for a year. Are you still satisfied with this? Is he Sustainiac pickup in "regular" (non-sustain) mode a good pick up? How long does a 9 volt last? Dos the pickup draw on the 9volt when in non-sustain mode? Thanks

[HappyOrangeTheBand]

@dotsunmoon yes i am still satisfied with the Sustainiac. Please watch my video for a demo of the regular tone of the neck pickup/driver: "Sustainiac Rocks: Tone of the stock pickup (driver)"

The 9 volt will last 5-9 hours of play time from my experience and yes the battery is used anytime the neck pickup is used when it's not in sustain mode. That's because the neck pickup is an active pickup and requires power. When the neck pickup starts to sound "grungy", you need to change the battery.

[MitchRulzWorld]

how would it work in the bridge? I really really want to get the styx sound. They always use a sustainer, but it has so much crunch and bite I think they use it in the bridge. To they make pickups for the bridge? Could I get that sound with the pickup in the neck?

[HappyOrangeTheBand]

@MitchRulzWorld Go to Sustainiac website. However i think the driver can be in the bridge, but then you are reading the tone of your neck pickup during sustain, so that won't give you the crunch.  If you want crunch, stick with the standard setup.

[juanlash]

normally, my guitar (fender american special telecaster) doesn't have sustain when it is in clean sound, is it good? does sustain normally happens on distortion?, also, this thing looks pretty awesome, where did you buy it?

[Jackhayes123]

but doesn't using the sustainiac drain your battery like crazy? :S

[Rnexen]

youve got soul dude

[mussefele]

@bitchniggerization Yup

[bitchniggerization]

is that a wolfgang?

[dotsunmoon]

@HappyOrangeTheBand I am so close to sending in my PRS SE - Sustainiac has been top notch going over my concerns via email and I even have a JB Bridge HB picked out - but I am leery of the battery. If the battery does start going and say I am in the middle of a gig - does switching o the bridge pick up remedy the situation until a new battery is put in? Thank you.