Welcome to the path-breaking challenge of the external guitar pickup HandHeldHero: a handy device in your forehand, to shape the electric sound of your guitar as you prefer. The principle is simple: instead of different stationary pickups mounted on the body of the guitar, you need just one HandHeldHero to pick up a wide range of tunes as you like. This single pickup-in-motion provides you an amazing variety of combinations in tone and volume to create your own sound. Dutch design HandHeldHero is a revolutionary simple Dutch design that liberates the screwed pickups from behind the strings. It gives your forehand totally control on tone and volume while you are playing the guitar. The small unit placed in the palm of your hand and the pick as preferred between the fingers. Suitable for acoustic and electric guitars, with or without traditional electronics. Your guitar is no longer an electric instrument: you are a real electric guitarist! Maximal freedom The HandHeldHero is a totally unique guitar concept. This will turn the evolution of the electric guitar upside down. It's not like the traditional anchored pickups which have to be controlled by volume and tone controls or a selector switch. The HandHeldHero does its work from above the strings, directly controlled by your guitar playing hand, to produce the sound and volume as you lead up to. Pickup liberation means maximal freedom for all guitar players. The HandHeldHero is held in place to the ball of the thumb by Velcro hook-and-loop fasteners. This gives your fingers the opportunity to pick, pluck, twang or thrum the strings as you like. The position of the HHH pickup will affect the tone as well as the overall volume. When the HHH is very close to a bridge, brass tones are greatly reduced. Closer to the fret board will give a fuller, less treble sound. You even can angle the HHH to have treble sound closer to the bridge and more bass into the direction of the fret board. Upside down HandHeldHero is a challenge for the veteran guitarist. A new dimension into guitar playing. You can play guitar as usual, but HandHeldHero gives you the opportunity to influence tone and volume directly while you are playing. Fade in or fade out through moving the pickup closer to the strings or remove it from there. Run the HandHeldHero across the strings from neck trough bridge to change the tone and character. Playing the HandHeldHero over a stationary pickup will influence the resonance and can cause the crisp sound of super hot pickups. Moving away from the pickup to the neck gives you the mellow sound of a hollow body electric. The different sounds you discover by experimenting with the HandHeldHero will amaze you. And the HandHeldHero will be different for each musician: it makes making music very personal again. Plug and play Place the HandHeldHero in the palm of your hand to have complete control over attack, decay and dynamics. This makes the HandHeldHero one of the most useful tools ever designed for guitar, personal enough to reflect your playing style. The rhythm of the hand can cause a beautiful organic tremolo. The attack of the pick can create a percussion as known from Hammond organs. The applications for the HandHeldHero are diverse while you can use ordinary gear, effects and pedals as before. One size fits all It's no longer a matter of the limitation of the size and position of the expensive puck-ups on your guitar: it's your own free choice, experience and imagination that limit the sound that you produce. HandHeldHero is to be used with metal strings on the instrument of your choice: guitar, banjo, mandolin, lap steel, citer, etc. Change guitars in no time. Put the cable trough your sleeve and you can change guitars very fast, even in the middle of a song. Easy assistant for tuning many guitars without changing the cable. One size fits all. including a 3 meter cable with traditional Jack-plug. No batteries required. All the energy you need will be provided by playing the guitar.