Guitar Pickups Acoustic
guitar pickups acoustic
does my Acoustic Guitar need a pickup to play at an open mic or will their be a microphone?
I live in the Boston area and want to play open mics.
If you play classical and sit pretty still, it's possibly to use a good quality microphone to mic your guitar, but otherwise you're best off getting a pickup. You can get a Fishman NeoD Humbucking pickup (make sure you get humbucking or you'll get a lot of buzz from lights and ceiling fans and stuff - I know because I had one of the non-humbucking ones). The soundhole pickups just slip into the soundhole and have the cable already attached so you can put it in and take it out whenever you want. I got rid of my NeoD (non-humbucking) and got an LR Baggs Element pickup put in under the saddle with a thumb wheel volume control in the soundhole and an end-pin jack. That cost about $125 with the installation and everything. The best systems are the ones that give you multiple pickup options and allow you to blend them. Some have an internal microphone that blends with the piezo under-saddle pickup. Some have sound board sensors that attach to the inside of the soundboard, some have magnetic pickups that blend with the piezos. It's hard to get a great acoustic tone with just piezos. If your guitar isn't that great to begin with, it's also probably not worth paying a lot to put high-end electronics in it. Again, I'd just recommend you try a Fishman NeoD Humbucker sound-hole pickup or something like it (Dean Markley and Lace also make decent soundhole pickups).
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