Virtual Acoustic Soundhole Pickup Review

Product Detail : Di’Marzio Virtual Soundhole Pickup

First off it came delivered on time and packaged in a thicker plastic container that I found to be reusable , just snap back together . I like the instructions that I saved how to use this Pickup. When I set it into the Soundhole , as I am left handed or play left handed Acoustic/ Electric,plugged into three separate amps plus my JBL EON ONE , and the sound that I had from the… read more late 1980's into early 90's .. Came to my ears , man I joyed that this Pickup is excellent designed with a robust upgrade to my playing .Also its adjustable for left handed and for myself the slider is inside the pickup and I have some volume control at the upper Soundhole as an added benefit.No line buzz ,just what I thought about , but went ahead and bought this amazing Di'Marzio Pickup.A Thank you note of appreciation for the invitation to review this recent purchase.

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Can be altered

I have a 93-year-old guitar with a smaller sound hole than today's standard. My "inside guy", Ed Nystrom, spent some time wrestling with the issue and found a note that this could be modified and cut down if needed. It arrived, and I was able to carefully cut (fine-blade hacksaw) the underside back just enough to fit. Now, the next question- with shaky histories on some older pickups… read more would it work? While I've only just received it, I did plug it up to test and was very pleased with the performance. It picks up the strings very well with no background noises and I thought was very uniform in its spectrum... reproduced highs and lows with no difference from hearing the guitar acoustically. The instructions are precise that it won't work with nylon strings because of the function of the pickups. It does lie fairly close to the strings, might be more comfortable if it sat more inside the sound hole but it doesn't interfere. I haven't really tested with banjo picks and harder finger picking but it should be fine. Couldn't ask for more, especially considering the price. It's a win as far as I'm concerned.

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Great External Guitar Pickup

I have been using this acoustic pickup for the last five years and it has been great. Yep I know their may be a better more expensive pickup out there but this has been reliable, sturdy and worth the money.

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Really Good Choice for Laminate Topped Guitars

I picked up this DiMarzio soundhole pickup to reinforce a 1980s Yamaha 12-string with a laminated top. I needed to preserve the guitar's shimmer without adding an "ice-pick-through-the-eardrum" treble many single-coil pickups in this price range and most under-the-saddle piezos produce with 12-strings (and with guitars that have laminated tops.) These laminated tops tend to have… read more no or ill-defined bass tonalities, so I wanted a pickup to beef up the low end while retaining the nice treble the guitar already had. This pickup fit the bill entirely! It has a nicely rounded bottom end that was not at all boomy in this 12-string. The top end is balanced. The on-board volume control is a very nice feature. The pickup has a little less overall output than one might expect from a typical electric guitar humbucker, but since it is built on a shallow frame, this makes perfect sense. The output, however, is just fine as it is! It will nicely go into the mixing board (a DI box or routing through an amp simulator/emulator is a good idea) and it drives the front end of a guitar amp (or acoustic guitar amp or keyboard amp) the same as something like a typical Strat pickup. It installs easily and is easily removed. We will probably, eventually, install it "semi-permanently" by adding an endpin jack and making an internal connection rather than having the cord hanging out of the sound hole. I highly recommend!

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Well worth the money

Purchased this for an acoustic guitar that I use for playing bottleneck Blues. The pickup is clear & clean, brings out the full frequency response of the guitar & has no feedback. The volume control is a definite plus. In the past, I have spent more money & gotten much less.

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