HyVibe Installation Kit for Acoustic Guitar (Requires Professional Installation) (HyV/H1)

If you have the means too install yourself, you need this. Amazing system for your acoustic

I had this professionally installed in a Fender thin body guitar (my travel guitar) and it enhances the experience 10 fold. I highly recommend it.

Not easy to install!The special effects needed more dynamic impression. Maybe that could have been added via the app.Of Course it’s probably too early to complain since I just got done installing it. Learning curve really necessary! Am very hopeful it will work out…

I added a Hyvibe unit to a parlor-sized carbon fiber Rainsong, and it's turned sort of a misfit guitar into one of the most fun things I own. Being able to record a series of chords (as many bars as you want, it would seem, I've done 32 bars once which is way more than I needed) and then just loop it and solo over them for as long as you want, without any other gear or setup or speakers, is awesome.90% of of what I do is record like 8 or 16 bars of chords, and then solo over them for a while using the Echo filter or something. There are other filters you can use, and you can make your own filters on the app and upload them to the guitar, but I find a lot of them are more gimmicky. That's fine, the basic ones are great.Another use case for me is to use the line out to pump the cords into an OP-1 (4 track recorder/synth thing), and make more complicated loops with other instruments. Nothing special but then, I plug the OP-1 *into the guitar* as a speaker, and still solo over it like normal but with additional instrumentation and controls, without needing any other speakers or much besides a single cable to the synth. Really neat.I give it 4/5 stars because I find the interface a bit cumbersome on the guitar. There's quite a lot of clicking around to set the volume on the metronome and the effects and the loops. I don't love how easily the click of the metronome gets accidentally recorded into your loops if you leave it too loud. On the other hand, the unit has taken a pretty good update since I first installed it (I did it myself with a dremel) so I'm pretty confident it can get even better in the future.If you do get one, make sure to spend lots of time experimenting with where the actuators are going to go on the sound board. You can get the whole thing 'working' without really installing it, and leave the actuators just resting on top of the soundboard. It makes a huge difference in tone as you move them around even slightly, so find the right spot before you stick them in place on the underside. My smaller parlor guitar replays the sound a bit like a cheap radio sometimes, but when I tested the unit on my larger wooden guitar, it sounded even better.

When the battery goes bad you can’t get a replacement, the company won’t respond 🤬Yamaha has a guitar that has a similar system Im sorry It wasn’t available when I bought the Lag guitar with the Hyvibe system☹️

They say professional install but install is fairly easy with the right tools. I installed myself and it turned out good except bridge is possibly a little high. JUst watch youtube videos. I installed in an old Yamaha which already had a few dings and a crack so wasn't too worried.To me, most of the sounds are kind of hoaky and only fun for a minute. The Reverb and Chorus are good and about all I use and you can get these on a Yamaha Trasacoustic guitar. The looper is cool but I really don't use it. If I had to do again I think I would have just bought the Yamaha Transacoutsic with it already built it. Less sounds and features but overall easier and cheaper. My opinion, just too pricey for what it is.