After 30 years of development, L.R. Baggs has exactly done what no other pickup manufacturer has been able to do: exploit the full potential of a microphone to capture the essential sound of a guitar - while at the same time providing high feedback resistance for use on large stages.Not obvious but nevertheless extremely important is the fact that the naturalness and dynamics of Anthem Tru-Mic technology allows the guitarist to play completely free, without having to compensate for the sound of the pickup. From now on, you play completely liberated, whether plugged in or unplugged! With the Anthem there is no modelling, no illusion, it is not like a microphone, it is not like your guitar. It IS a microphone and what you will hear and experience is YOUR guitar, loud and with the fidelity and dynamics of a real microphone.Tru-Mic Technology:At the heart of the patent-pending Anthem is a revolutionary new type of microphone. Using a proprietary low-noise microphone, the Anthem Tru-Mic eliminates all the annoying honking noise and high-pitched, muffled sound previously associated with internal microphone pickups, while still retaining the natural tone of your guitar that only a real microphone can transmit. Because the microphone is positioned only a few millimetres from the top of the guitar, it has a very high output level before feedback occurs. The microphone housing is very easy to mount under the bridge and the microphone capsule floats only 3mm below the surface to take advantage of the PZM boundary effect. Tru-Mic technology captures the sound of the entire guitar top's vibration, delivering perfect sound regardless of the precise placement of the microphone that would normally be required.Microphone and pickup a fundamentally new technology:The sound quality and feedback resistance of the Anthem Tru-Mic now makes it possible for the first time for a microphone to be the primary sound source in a microphone/pickup system. This distinguishes the Anthem system from all previous systems, where only a small part of the microphone sound was used to make the sound a little airier and to freshen up the very concise pickup sound. So it's a completely new relationship between mic and pickup because now all the details, the warmth and the character of the guitar is captured by the Tru-Mic. The Element pickup only supports the microphone at the lowest frequencies.Anthem SL:For players who prefer a more minimalist control option, there is the Anthem SL. The mixing ratio between Tru-Mic and Element is already set here as a preset for optimal performance, so you get the same tonal fidelity in endpin preamp format. The preamp, of course also in the usual discrete studio quality, includes a volume control placed in the sound hole.