Krivo Pickups

Since 2005, Jason Krivo Flores - the owner of Krivo pickups - has become one of the World's most respected maker of artisan-quality handmade pickups for acoustic instruments from his workshop in Portland, Oregon USA. Krivo specializes in making the best-sounding and most beautiful acoustic magnetic pickups on the market for gypsy jazz / django-style guitars; hard-to-fit archtop guitars; upright basses and resophonic instruments. Krivo pickups use neodymium magnets for high output, clarity and tight bass response and his proprietary Optimized Microphonics™ enables his pickups to sense sound and finger board vibrations in addition to the vibrations of the strings which provides a much more natural “acoustic” tonal pallette than typical magnetic pickups whilst retaining a very high degree of feedback resistance. Krivo pickups are never “potted” in wax or epoxy like mass-produced pickups. Phase Balanced™ Hum-Cancelling Design on dual coil pickups cancel the hum without muddying tone. All pickups have audiophile-grade Mogami™ cable; high quality Switchcraft connectors; vintage-spec 44 AWG Formvar™ magnet wire (rather than thicker - and significantly cheaper - single polynylon wire).  Just Jazz Guitar Magazine [May 2014] said “All in all, these pickups are a great product at a great price and are highly recommended” and Acoustic Guitar Magazine [April 2016] said “Marvelous pickups, not only wonderful for playing Gypsy jazz, but for any player looking for a good magnetic pickup for an acoustic guitar.”