The LightWave Optical Pickup’s transparent response ensures harmonically rich, deep, and powerful tone, spanning a wide range from pure, natural string sound for the ultimate in lyrical playing, to super-aggressive for all-out shredding. Extremely low noise characteristics eliminate the annoying background hum and buzz typical of conventional pickups, and with no magnetic field damping the strings, sustain is long and natural.

Plug a Willcox LightWave powered Saber Bass into your favorite amplifier and effects to achieve your desired tone. LightWave Optical Pickups produce high definition studio quality sound; a rich and detailed soundscape with long and natural sustain. The Saber Bass stands out with it’s strong, bold and focused low end response, vocal mids and sparkling highs.

LightWave powered instruments give you a perfect blank canvas for all the popular software and hardware based modelers. You can build a complete virtual rig by modeling different guitars and basses, preamps, power amps, effects, speaker cabinets, and mics. The Saber Bass can model many bass sounds from classic bass and amp combinations to clean modern tones. Bass effects sound bigger and more dimensional.

The HexFX Editions bring the individual strings outputs, along with a summed mono output, to a 13-pin DIN connector. The resulting output enables full synth access, individual string processing and modeling, as well as the use of a fanout box. The possibilities are limitless, and the optical pickup technology provides ultra-fast and accurate tracking, glitch free and with no latency and no false triggering. The HexFX Editions open up a world of new and exciting possibilities for the bass player and guitarist: polyphonic string processing, pitch to MIDI conversion, playing software instruments, playing digital and analog synths using the guitar as a controller, and even transcribing the music you play into notation.