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Eastwood Guitars Introduces Monolith with "The Biggest Pickup on the Planet"

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Eastwood's Tele-shaped Monolith debuts a three-voice pickup from the new rebelSonic pickup company.

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Eastwood's preview video of the Monolith
Toronto, ON (January 9, 2009) -- Eastwood Guitars will introduce the new Monolith guitar, the only guitar in the world to feature the revolutionary three voice Monolith pickup from rebelSonic. This guitar will be unveiled on January 15 at NAMM 09 in Anaheim, CA, at the Eastwood booth #1331, Hall E.

The Monolith is not just the biggest pickup on the planet; it’s a completely new concept in pickup sound and design. The Monolith is actually three totally different sounds, not available in any other pickup, all packed in to one seriously over-sized shell. The three Monolith sounds are: JackHAMMER - a Humbucker on steroids, cementMIXER - a deep, dirty sludge tone, and icePICK - a P90 on steroids that cuts through the thickest mix. The result is one guitar that takes the place of three guitars.

These first Eastwood Monolith guitars are destined to become collector editions. All 48 guitars feature the Made in USA rebelSonic Monolith, a limited edition hand-wired pickup. To make your guitar something special, Eastwood is also making available optional custom chrome and clear plexi pick guards, alternate switch tips and each guitar is professionally preset to Eastwood sonic perfection.

"The originality of the three voice Monolith comes from our guitar mastermind Joey Leone," stated Mike Robinson, President of Eastwood Guitars, "and I liked the idea so much that we joined forces with him and our creative marketing guy, Grant Ivens, to set up a new company called rebelSonic, to develop new guitar tone products for all guitars."

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Matt
on 02/21/2009 		I would like to have heard more of a demonstration of the cleaner "character" settings. Presenting something "tele" style with awful thin generic fuzz left me cold. When you're getting that kind of sound it just as well could be anything; the less than stellar playing didn't help either, which is an all too common occurance on these demos. Still, i'd like to check it out for myself, as Eastwood does some interesting things.
Davo
on 01/18/2009 		Im glad to see more pups like the Duncan P-rail. They are a nice new new direction in versatility. Now they need to make a 2 pup mosrite copy and im all in!
I agree a better demo of the pup is in order.
Dan Marois
on 01/12/2009 		I'll find out soon enough. I should receive mine this week! :) I'll post my impressions later.
uncle doody
on 01/10/2009 		Yeah I'm with Firebrand...show me an example of all three settings with one player and one amp setting,clean and then distorted,with no effects.That will tell the tale.But it's a fantastic idea.
Firebrand
on 01/10/2009 		That's sweet-a "one up" from the new Duncan pickup. Now if this pickup were able to fit in a standard humbucker hole I would be totally cheesed. Sounds great too. I would, however, have liked to see all the tones played on (presumably) the same guitar and seen one amp setting with the player toggle between each setting "unedited".
Steve
on 01/10/2009 		WOW



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