non reso pickups

[thebluesbear( al)]

Hi

i was cleaning out some old junk of mine in storage yesterday , and found a old clip in the sound hole type pick up

its about 20 years old i bought it years ago it was crap LOL

well it set me thinking about one thing dont ask mw why but drilling into nice old accoustic guitars it make me uneasy just me ...

so

has anyone used a more modern up tp date clip in type pickup ??and recomendations ?

all ideas would be great

al

[blueshome]

If you really must turn it into an electric guitar rather than use a mic, Fishman Rare Earth are the best of a bad lot at least to my ears (still sounds better than a piezo though). I have one and have used it twice in 5 years and still don't know why I bothered. If th.

[thebluesbear( al)]

No

so far i dont have to turn it into a electric guitar .......have managed with a mic for years im just curious if anyone has used something in the last years that has improved from 5,10.15 years ago

al

[andys]

I have a Fishman permanently mounted in the soundhole of my Simon & Patrick dreadnought. I too love the tone of it, and prefer the sound of a mag pickup on an acoustic to a piezo.

In my old gigging days, my acoustic had a strat pickup wired across the soundhole, it was the best way of amplifying an acoustic in a band where the drummer used a double bass drum kit!!!

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Al

I have the basic Headway p/u's in my Fyldes. They are active. They sound very good through any amp and do not affect the acoustic sound.
Blueshome

Not everyone, me for one, can play with a mic. I get a frozen shoulder and have to move around a bit between verses. If I am amplified I use a pickup...but good ones.

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I use the Bill Lawrence clip-in soundhole pickups, but I don't shoot for a pure acoustic sound, and use a Sessionette guitar am. I go for that edgier type of sound that Lightnin' Hopkins had...and he used a soundhole pickup, usually a DeArmond.

[washboardchris]

Hi, Fishman rare earth are good (I prefer the sound of the single coil but they can be noisy) LR Baggs M1 is very nice & also picks up the vibration of the top.These are the two I have tried that I have been most impressed with.My main gigging guitar has a K&K pure western pick up inside the body& a Fishman single coil across the the sound hole.I have heard very good reports of the sunrise pick up (if its good enough for Richard Thompson!)but they are expensive hard to get& quite bulky.

[Blues Pertti]

Hi

Here was a very interesting article with sound clips:
www.fingerpick.com/pickups.htm

Regards
Pertti