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Add the power and sonic clarity of Fishman’s renowned blending technology to your guitar, without any visible modification.

The Ellipse Matrix Blend combines the world’s best-selling undersaddle pickup, the Fishman Acoustic Matrix, with the popular Ellipse Blend, to give you incredible tone at your fingertips.

With its flexible gooseneck condenser microphone, volume, blend, and phase controls, the Ellipse Matrix Blend makes it possible to have the best of both worlds when you play. The sparkling, transparent sound and control that our Acoustic Matrix pickup is complemented by the unique and expressive character of a microphone.

Ellipse Matrix Blend Pickup & Preamp System Features:

  • Super low-noise onboard preamp system
  • Ergonomic soundhole-mounted design puts slider controls at your fingertips to maintain a natural playing position
  • Features the world’s best-selling undersaddle pickup, the Acoustic Matrix
  • Phase switch (feedback control)
  • Custom-designed cardioid condenser mini-microphone with gooseneck mount and accessible mic/pickup blending, plus mic trim control
  • Unique patent-pending neodymium magnetic mounting system for easy, solder-free installation
  • Solder-free connections
  • Switchable low-frequency tone-shaping built into preamp
  • Pickup available in wide, narrow or split formats
  • Professional installation recommended
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Specifications

PICKUP LENGTH:

Standard pickup length of 2.65” (67.3 mm) will fit most guitars with 2.5” (63.5 mm) string spacings

SOUNDHOLE:

Accommodates most round soundholes from 3 7/8” (98 mm) to 4 1/8” (105 mm) in diameter

BATTERY:

9-Volt

BATTERY LIFE:

220 hours