Kivitel
New member
Hey, some of you might now about this, but I just found it:
http://www.dougyoungguitar.com/pickuptest.htm
It has really good sound samples of a huge number of acoustic pickups. Magnetic, piezo, mic, mixed ones. All in different sorts of guitars with identical musical passages played on 'em. Really great, unbiased comparison. The best sounding product was the McIntyre feather pickup, really better than most anything else (although I liked the K&K pickups, and the Ovation ones, even if they don't sound very woody). It's nice to see such high quality content on the internet, especially when there are smaller manufacturers of pickups who make better products than the 'big boys'. It must have taken days to record, and without it we'd have to take Fishman/Baggs/SD's word that their product is the best.
I never thought piezos could ever sound good, but apparently they can. Very cool.
Also, I'm thinking of combining a p90 with a piezo in an acoustic. Not sure when I'll get around to making such a monster but I will keep you folks posted.
http://www.dougyoungguitar.com/pickuptest.htm
It has really good sound samples of a huge number of acoustic pickups. Magnetic, piezo, mic, mixed ones. All in different sorts of guitars with identical musical passages played on 'em. Really great, unbiased comparison. The best sounding product was the McIntyre feather pickup, really better than most anything else (although I liked the K&K pickups, and the Ovation ones, even if they don't sound very woody). It's nice to see such high quality content on the internet, especially when there are smaller manufacturers of pickups who make better products than the 'big boys'. It must have taken days to record, and without it we'd have to take Fishman/Baggs/SD's word that their product is the best.
I never thought piezos could ever sound good, but apparently they can. Very cool.
Also, I'm thinking of combining a p90 with a piezo in an acoustic. Not sure when I'll get around to making such a monster but I will keep you folks posted.
