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Originally Posted by martingitdave
My observation with the Aura VT Enhance is that it is a good sounding pickup. I do think it has some dampening effect on the guitar. But, it isn't the enhance transducer. I've removed one and it weighs very little. It's most likely the cumulative result of the controls and the under saddle transducer. So far, I haven't found many good sounding pickups that are better at high volume than the Fishman Matrix with Aura.
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... and there's also a lot of wiring and control modules under the hood. I even rearranged the wiring on my Martin GPC-18E Aura VT Enhance to make less contact with the top. I don't think all that crap had much effect on the sustain as the guitar has great sustain and sounded great acoustically but I could never bond with the pickup/preamp system's tone. It needed external EQ to sound decent for me. Finally, I traded it in on my Huss & Dalton TD-R and haven't missed that Martin since then.