A vibraphone pickup has a bobbin having two coils, one for outputting an analog signal and one for outputting a digital signal. A plurality of filters and buffers are used to isolate the signals. A rare earth (or neodymium) magnet is used in the center of the bobbin. In one method of use, a vibraphone pickup is used to pick up each note of the vibraphone. The output of each vibraphone pickup is combined and fed into an amplifier.