Happy Dinosaur Tabletop Humbucker
People have been experimenting with guitar pickups outside guitars for decades.
Happy Dinosaur's Tabletop Humbucker takes that idea and turns it into a premiere instrument for exploring sound.
See it in action
I feel like a crazy mad scientist. I love it!
The build quality is superb!
It’s so simple, that’s why it’s so brilliant.
A pickup for exploring sound
The Tabletop Humbucker is a pickup made for adventurous musicians, sound designers and pedal people.
Handmade in Sweden from solid walnut, the pickup is suspended in silicone to reduce mechanical coupling, and the hand-held ground wire helps to reduce hum.
There are no screens or menus — just the feedback loop between hand and brain.
A microphone hears things the way your ear does.
A pickup hears things differently.
Instead of capturing acoustic sound, Tabletop Humbucker responds to movement in the magnetic field and turns it into an electrical signal.
That gives you access to sounds a normal microphone would hear very differently — or barely hear at all.
Simplicity
The Tabletop Humbucker is completely passive. No batteries, no power supply.
Just plug it into your audio interface or other equipment and start exploring. Oh, and it loves pedals and effects!
Accessories included
Place the metal washer on the wood soundboard or grey felt scratch protection - voilà you've got a pseudo contact microphone!
Ground wire
Hold the ground wire in your hand to reduce hum and noise.
Meet the maker
Here's me, Tobias. I'm the maker of the Tabletop Humbucker. Happy Dinosaur is my small one-person company in Sweden.
Red Means Recording.
Red Means Recording took the Happy Dinosaur Tabletop Humbucker to extraordinary creative places in this video.
It’s incredibly inspiring — it gets me deep into the creative zone every time.