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“One of the most genuinely unique guitar tones I’ve ever heard”: Submarine Pickups Subsix review
Apr 23, 2025
A hexaphonic guitar pickup allows you to process each of your guitar strings individually, but is it a superpowered creative tool or a niche gimmick?
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What is it?
There are quite a few non-permanent pickup designs out there, although the vast majority tend to be for acoustic guitars. The Submarine Subsix pickup is something altogether different though, being easily attachable to an electric guitar, and giving you the ability to send each of your guitar strings through a different signal chain.
It’s a hexaphonic pickup, like the famous Roland GK pickup system but instead of sending the signal to a dedicated unit, it allows you to choose what to do with your signal processing. Using 12 Neodyminium N42 magnets, the Subsix isolates the sound of each string on your guitar and effect them separately, opening some wild possibilities in terms of how you record or perform.
It can be attached to acoustic or electric guitar, and its flexible design with removable backplate allows for a wide variety of configurations, so in theory it should fit on pretty much any type of guitar. It comes with two 1/8-inch to 3 1/4-inch adapters for splitting the signal, and you get a myriad of attachment items including temporary suction pads, sticky foam rubber pads, and a pair of powerful magnets.
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