Description
L.R. Baggs designed the Element to flex with your bridge, not fight it. That flexible undersaddle transducer conforms to the saddle for tighter, more consistent contact across the string spread, which means the pickup picks up more of what your guitar is actually doing instead of just the loudest string. The payoff is a livelier, more open voice with a high end that stays articulate rather than brittle. It’s built to work smoothly across common saddle widths, including 3/32″ and 1/8″, so string-to-string balance stays even instead of favoring the bass or treble side.
Behind the saddle sits a discrete class-A preamp housed right in the endpin jack, pre-voiced with a contour EQ so there’s no tone-shaping learning curve — plug in and play. Volume control lives at the soundhole on a mini wheel that mounts without soldering or drilling into your top, keeping the install non-invasive. A no-drill mesh battery bag rounds out the mounting hardware for the single 9V battery the system runs on, rated for roughly 1000 hours of playing time.
Specs at a glance:
- Pickup active sensor length: 3.4″
- Pickup thickness: .038″
- Pickup width: .092″
- Battery type: Single 9V
- Battery life: approx. 1000 hrs.
If you want your steel-string to sound like itself through the PA — just louder — the EAS Element system is a straightforward, low-fuss way to get there.
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