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ACOUSTIC GUITAR PICKUPS

Choosing the right pickup for an acoustic guitar, mandolin or other stringed instrument is important. Based on your playing style and the music you love to play, I can help you choose a pickup system that is right for you...

Selecting The Right Pickup 

Finding the right pickup system for you can be a daunting process. Playing a few instruments with a pickup system in them can help, but you may want to take it a step further. Talk to other performers who play your genre of music and style of playing, and get their input on what they like. Listen to their instruments and see what sounds best to you...

Pickup System Upgrade

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This customer was looking for a more responsive system upgrade. Custom fitting an L R Baggs LB-6 preamp and bone mounted saddle/pickup offered more output volume and presence...

End Pin Preamp Mounting

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Once the preamp was mounted in Taylor 314 battery/output jack box, it slides in replacing the existing system. The new system better suited the playing style of this solo performer...

Internal Transducer

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This K&K Sound internal twin transducer system for mandolins is a minimally invasive installation. This passive transducer system requires no battery and only a mounting hole for the strap jack...

Piezo-Electric Cable

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The piezo-electric cable pickup system is one of the easier systems to install. It offers ease of aquiring good string to string balance. Though it may not be the "tone purists" first choice,  a dual source, mic/under saddle pickup system usually is...