could any of these pickup the pick that i dropped in the soundhole thanks

1:16 Darman magnetic soundhole pickup 2:22 LR Bags m80 magnetic soundhole pickup 3:27 Transducer Pickup 4:49 LR Bags Anthem Mic 5:02 LR Bags Anthem Piezo

you guys make such great videos. Really refreshing to have good pro demo videos on youtube.

Using different guitars to demonstrate pickups seems to be missing the point. He originally said and I perhaps paraphrase, was how pickups change the sound of the guitar. If head stayed with the Fender it would have made an opinion on what pickup sound you were going for.

Thank you for the informative breakdown of acoustic/electric options. That was a bizarre adventure Mojo Jojo!

Based on what I've seen and heard on other KZfaq videos, plus more experienced guitarists, since a sound hole pickup is a magnetic pickup, just like on an electric guitar, electric guitar strings work better than acoustic strings. Also, most than a few high end, and some mid-level acoustics as well, have the endpin strap button installed in a pre-drilled hole that will accept a quarter inch jack. That means you can install the jack without drilling, just swapping a few parts.

Great presentation and a very likable presenter. No condescension at all. Reverb is an outstanding company.

Great explanation and demonstration of the different options. Thanks!

Nice video, I liked the LR Baggs magnetic pickup the best far and away, but I'm sure everybody has their own opinions.

As a rule if thumb I don’t like sound whole pickups but the LR BAGGS M80 is excellent so much better then the others it’s rich warm and natural sounding

Thanks a really useful overview and love this guy's playing. The blend on the Anthem sounds great... looks like it would work really well live if switching between ballads (think Annie's Song) primarily on the microphone setting and then bashing out some blues type stuff when perhaps a bit more of the piezo sound would help.

I picked up a Neo D from Fishman for my '76 Martin D35 since I didn't think drilling a hole in it would be smart. Sounds great!

This is great. Thanks. I want a pickup with less labor required on installation and a sound hole pickup is for me and i think i will deliver properly on the sound quality and feedback.

great vid, i wish the different pickups would have been used on the same guitar though especially since one of the guitars was of different body type

This may be of interest regarding the K & K mini. I carefully installed one in my Ibanez lawsuit guitar (basically a Martin dreadnought clone they got sued for) , following instructions carefully, using super glue. Plugged in and played it, determined that the treble side transducer was too hot. So I decided to move it away a bit. Oops! K & K instructs that the installed transducers can be reset even when superglued if you are careful. Apparently I was not careful enough, I destroyed that transducer trying to unglue it. Here's the interesting part, it didn't matter! With the two remaining dots, middle and low, the guitar sounds fine! I got rid of the overly bright one completely but highs still come thru. The guitar has a ton of bass, of course, but can be easily controlled with normal eq, and is always there for nice roundness at lower volumes. Sounds great and natural.

I love my Highlander pickup and frequently get glowing comments on the great sound of my guitar. For years I used the IP-1 model but recently I installed the IP-2 model which gives me dual pickup capabilities.

I'm using a fishman 301 presys+ blend. I replaced the mic with a magnetic rail humbucker pickup. It blends well with the piezo and absolutely feedbackless.

The best sounding "pickup systems" are when you blend different types. I think more sound sources in an acoustic pick up more of the tonal characteristics of an acoustic guitar.

I liked the sound of the LR Baggs sound hole pickup the best.

K&K Pure Mini is what I've put in every guitar.

Thanks very much, a great video and really informative.

I have tried many pickups... The LR Baggs Anthem is the best from my own personal experience. Being able to switch and blend the two really helps with feedback and tone.

Cheers for the useful video, would have been nice to have the one guitar fitted with each and to have the room mic turned off to allow direct comparison

i do hate piezzo with passion, i understand it has its place in mix with rock band setup, but man, it sound same on the 50 guitar, as on a 28 martin.

I have the LR baggs lyric tru-mic pickup in my D18 and it sounds amazing through my venue DI. And it is super feedback resistant. The transducer probably sounds second best aside from the internal Mic.

Thanks! I´m working with a Schatten Design transducer und a ART Tube Preamp. In this way I can just have a little overdrive sound on my akkustik guitar. But a lot of times I use a shure SM 58 mike. And sometimes I mix. I think yousing a normal singers mike is still a verry simple and good sounding way.

Informative, thanks for quickly getting to the POINT

"Hey! You've got to hide your love away!.."

I really like the fullness of the transducer pickup.

I LOVE that old Kingman, I have a couple!

L.R. Baggs M80 and Anthem are the ones that I like the most. But I am still finding it hard to pick an acoustic pick up, since there are a lot of good ones, and I want one that can get as close as possible to the sound of my acoustic

I've watched a bunch of these LR Baggs videos now and the 50/50 blend always just sounds like the piezo to me.

Fantastic overview. Thx!

Great video. Most folks just don’t hear that the true tone of an acoustic guitar is extremely bass-y and their brains focus on the highs when they try to consciously analyze the sound. Recording engineers often don’t get it. Listen to the intro of the huge hit low places by Garth Brooks as evidence of some of the worst tone ever recorded. I installed the L.R. Baggs Lyric into one of my guitars which is only the mic part of the Anthem with no piezo. It works like a regular mic on the outside because it rejects the reflections around it so it doesn’t pickup the sound of the inside of the guitar, just the bridge. Then I tried to match the cheap Fishman Isys onboard piezoelectric pickup in another guitar. I was able to achieve this pretty close with a wonderful tone by having the bass at half or a hair more and the mids and treble only barely on from fully off. That’s the key to authentic acoustic we tone. Mix the other instruments in around that sound instead of trying to fit an acoustic guitar into a mix that is for Rock’n’Roll. Tighten the bass and turn it down. Less upright bass sound and more like the left hand of a piano. A little goes along way. The acoustic will carry the song and vocals much better if it doesn’t sound like a tin can attached to a walkie-talkie. Good luck and enjoy your acoustic sounds!

This is a more valuable segment than I can put into words.

I've also never liked the nasally sound of even a good piezo pickup, and the transducer had some of that tone also. The LR Baggs sounded really good.

I installed a K&K Pure Mini in my Yahama and it works great.

This was really informative. Obliged.

thank for a very useful video!!

Re boring out the endpin, I believe that there are alternatives to this which will provide an endpin jack while not altering your guitar’s originality.

Somedays I just don't feel like using any pickup for acoustics playing them in a Silent environment just gives more satisfaction and the pure pure sound.

Exactly the video I was looking for! Give me love, give me peace on Earth. Thank you x

Maton AP5 as used by Tommy Emanuel. Real world perfection.

Very nice video, thank you!

I use my Martin OM28V accoustic with the standard (not top of the range) L.R. Baggs pickup installed. Plugging the jack into the HI-Z channel on my Mackie 1620i through my PA. It is a clearer sound than not using the Hi-Z switch in the channel, but still a rather thinner, less fuller sound of my accoustic on it's own, with any electrification. none of these demo's although quite good really do it for me compared to the full natural sound of an accoustic on it's own. Perhaps I will have to experiment with my 48 volt condensor mic externally placed near enough to my accoustic guitar body for amplification through my PA, its been said that is a better option. Thank you anyway for this demo, it's a very interesting to insight.

Great video, super useful info! Which option would be the cheapest way of avoiding Feedback?

Great video thanks.

Thanks. It´s interesting how it sounds with clasical nilonstrings guitar.

Hi Joe (and everyone else for that matter) I'm wondering if an internal mic gives the same sound texture as a DI? Is an internal mic worth it? Also If I already have an under-saddle pickup, would it make any difference to buy a piezo or soundhole pick-up? Cheers guys

I was lucky to get the last K&K Power-mix from Thomann Mic+Piezo+Pure mini THAT SOUNDS AWESOME I have L.R.Baggs M-1 also, but it sounds to plastic guitar with cold.. not for my taste.

Seymour Duncan Mag-Mic is brilliant!

What kind of pickup would you recommend for someone who plays fingerstyle stuff in multiple open tunings on a Guild P-240? I have a vintage Jax soundhole pickup but it’s basically a piezo pickup. It looks really cool but I’m not getting the tone I’d like but it could also be the mic. The Jax pickup is on a Recording King ROH-05. I need help with this.

I've used the LR Baggs passive through a JHS colour box and sounds great :-)

Best live acoustic sound I ever heard was an Electrovoice dynamic lavalier mic fastened to a pencil glued across the middle of the soundhole. Can't find those anymore though.

Check out the miniflex line of microphone style pickups.

M80 and Anthem for me!

Excellent demo dude. Peace, M.A.

Lr baggs Ibeam or Lr baggs Trumic? Which will win? I want to choose a pickup for percussive fingerstyle.

I am a beginner to the pick ups and thus have to deal with feedbacks so to get around it I bought the Bose L1 that did the job n sounds great no feedback

Nice G Harrison bit!

I have an old Harmony Sovereign H1260 acoustic jumbo. It has tone & volume knobs on the front like you would see in an electric guitar. What type of pickup is this likely to be and is it possible to replace with something modern while keeping the knobs functional?

I’ve had them all LR Baggs every model fishman etc. just put the K&k pure mini in and couldn’t be happier for 100 bucks

K&K sounded the best by far, followed by the Baggs soundhole pickup.

Good review but I’m still torn! Want to install something in my Martin D-28 V. I want something that sounds great but I am also torn about the invasive installment of the more complex systems.

Thank you so much 😊

thank you very much!

What kind of pickup better preserves the natural sound of the acoustic guitar?

I have a set of flat wound Chromes (electric guitar strings) on my Taylor Big Baby. Could I attach a humbucker? Would it sound any good?

Anybody: what can you recommend for a guitar I’m devoting strictly to *Nashville/high-strung tuning?* I’m totally refurbishing this guitar from the ground up & I want only the best fitting tone that would best support the Nashville tuning sound

Fishman Rare Earth Blend combines a mic with a humbucker pickup. Very versatile.

Is there a good pickup for a 3/4 size guitar?

K&K Pure Mini and the Tru Mic are ahead of all the others

Are transducer pickups good for plugging into clean electric guitar amps, and even adding some distortion? Cause I know that the ones that look like electric guitar pickups are good for that set up, but maybe it sounds terrible with a transducer pickup

Really nice

Hi Sir nice video comparison. May I ask , because i have a Martin DreadJr10e , that has a fishman sonitone undersaddle pickup, and when I connect directly to my Roland AC60, i cannot hear the same sound like when you play the Undersaddle pickup in the video at 5:03 timestamp

Which Pickup should i get for a Parlour (Art&Lutherie Roadhouse)? I wanted the SA6 magmic but it isnt fitting, so i thought about Schertler Dyn G but it is a bit too expensive especially cause i had to buy a new amp with/for it. Edit: Im mainly into Fingerpicking

Thanks , that was helpful. appreciate it. And I like the "Hide Your Love Away" section :-)

Hey! Thank you for the great video! The Fishman Matrix infinity doesn't have mic, does it?

Good vid... I eventually found my way to the Anthem, i haven't looked back!.

I have AER compact XL twin channel acoustic amplifier. Now I want to both play guitar and sing as well so could please advise which pick up for my acoustic guitar is the best match for my selection ? Many thanks

Imagine installing all the with a strat style pickup selector

That fender kingman look like I need it

whats the name of the first DEArmond tinny sound pick up model? can't find it anywhere. thanks

para hacer fingerstyle cual me recomiendas? jon gomn usa un hambuker pero nose aun si comprar ese

So would a piezo make my acoustic slide guitar sound like a resonator dobro?

Hello friend... Is there any of these pickups that, in addition to the Chorus, Delay, Reverber effects, also add Flanger or Phaser? What models of pickups are available with bluetooth? Are the pickups installed in the guitar hole as good as these? Of the various models available on the market, which would you prefer?

Just use 3 Sigma or Hotone acoustic simulator pedal. They actually sound like an acoustic. No pickup alone is going to do a good job.

Is it possible to just put a strat style single coil in-between the soundhole. Would that still work?

What strings to use for magnetic pickup on acoustic guitar?

Which one will give you a John McCrea sound?

2:40. George Harrison's 'Give me Love, Give me Peace' on Earth. Great playin!

I have a Seymour Duncan singl coil, is there a way to eliminate the hissle at 5khz it causes? May a passive DI help? I ve tried an active di or through an instrument input but the hissle is always there.

Hello, I play an acoustic instrument. is there any wireless that can work just only with under saddle pieso pickup (Passive) with out any preamp or EQ Mounted over instrument? I had the same wireless problem with transducer mics as well. They both work only when a preamp system is between mic and wireless. I tested a lot and all wireless systems work with the help of pre amp or with magnetic electric guitar mics installed over the instrument and could not be able to find anything working and adaptable wireless system just with under saddle mic or sticking transducer mic over the acoustic instrument. Thanks in advance.

Piezo pickups are ok, but all you are getting is the sound from the strings, If you use a transducer, you are getting the sound of the wood of the guitar..The soundhole pickups are great to, but once again , you are getting the sound of the magnetic pickup against the strings, that's why a lot of people have a dual system like a microphone or transducer and a sound hole pickup, then you can mix the sound of both ...

can you use a pick up on a 3/4 guitar? would it fit?

Hello > > > Can i plug the pickup (Harley Benton TrueTone SH-30 Pro Active) directly into the mixer Dynacord (analog\digital etc) and that the guitar sound comes out to the speakers connected to the mixer? > Or do l need some accessories? (Guitar amps, Preamps)

If it is a pickup comparison, why the 50/50 mic blend?

I tried a Fender y it doesn't sound at all, do I need an amplifier or just plug it in a main? Help please

Ive got a nylon style Yamaha. Amazon offers different 2, 3 & 4 piezo pickups to glue (blue tak) to the inside at bridge area. some even an upgradeable status. Anyone have good luck with such?

The first one looks so nice, but how does it actually plug into anything? I see a cord at the bottom of the guitar, so I'm guessing you did the drill thing you mentioned? Or is that guitar already set up for amplification? I'm just looking to amplify my regular acoustic.