To help make your job a little easier, we’ve compiled an overview of acoustic-electrics introduced this year. Given a market teeming with attractive options, it can be overwhelming, to say the least, to find the acoustic-electric guitar that’s right for your style and which sounds great acoustically while providing excellent reinforcement when needed. Instrument makers work closely with pickup companies to find the optimal electronics for their offerings, and gig-ready acoustic-electric guitars, while once specialty items, can be had at all price points. There are now seemingly endless choices of guitar/pickup combinations to suit the needs of players in a variety of styles. In the last few decades, pickups have come a long way for the performing acoustic guitarist.
And the first acoustic-electric guitars-like the P-90-equipped Gibson J-160E that John Lennon made famous in his television appearances with the Beatles-didn’t really sound convincingly acoustic either, nor did instruments like Martin’s short-lived D-18E and D-28E of the late 1950s.
There are crappy UST/pre-amp systems out there as well as I have one installed in my Oscar Schmidt OG8.it came stock with the guitar and sounds like crap but it is servicable for now until I put something good in it.From the November/December 2019 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY JANE MILLER AND ADAM PERLMUTTERĪcoustic guitarists who have been around long enough can tell stories about the days of trying to be heard in a band: standing still in front of a mic while battling feedback or using the earliest of aftermarket pickup options and sounding like all wires and no wood. I am now looking at the K&K Western "soundboard transducer"type of pickup as apparently they give a really nice reproduction of the acoustic sound of the guitar without the "plastic" kind of sound UST pickups can sometimes have. The set-up I personally use is a soundhole pickup into an outboard pre-amp box and then into an amp/PA. There are companies that make very good high end "active" soundhole pickups that sound very nice and there is no need for an external pre-amp. Some of the cheaper soundhole pickups can tend to just make an acoustic guitar sound like an electric.not much reproduction of the "acoustic" sound.
FISHMAN SONITONE UNDER SADDLE PICKUP INSTALL
So if you plan on playing with a band at loud volumes a soundhole pickup might be the one for you.Īlso, a soundhole pickup doesn't require any modification to the guitar and can be used with multiple guitars as they are generally easy to install and ually in seconds.Īs far as sound is concerned if you use a good UST and a decent pre-amp system you will have a pretty good acoustic guitar sound. Another thing to consider about soundhole pickups are that they are not as prone to feedback like UST's. I personally prefer the under-saddle transducers because I believe that they more faithfully reproduce the acoustic sound of the guitar but there are other forumites who will disagree. A peizo transducer will work for all types of string including nylon. When subjected to a vibration (by the string) the crystal generates a small electric current (called a peizo effect) which is then amplified.
FISHMAN SONITONE UNDER SADDLE PICKUP SERIES
This is the type of PU used on an electric guitar which is why electric guitars are strung with steel or nickel strings - they cause a bigger flux in the magnetic field than bronze wound strings (as normally used on acoustic guitars) - in this case the PU only detects the steel core strings.Īn under-the-saddle PU (also called a transducer) has a thin metal strip which contains a series of crystals that fits under the saddle. When a steel (or nickel) string vibrates, it causes a flux in the magnetic field which generates a small electric current which is amplified by an external amplifier. This type of PU contains a bar magnet and a series of copper wire wound poles. They use different principles to amplify the sound.Ī soundhole PU (almost always) is a magnetic PU.
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