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Originally Posted by Doug Young
I don't know. All that matters is if it works for you, but what I've observed is that different adhesives sound different and that the effect isn't consistent across different pickup designs. For example, you'd think that putty on the HFN would be really lousy at transferring energy, but I recall trying to use tape for one, and was surprised how "hard" and thin it sounded. I've been surprised that they now offer tape for those - haven't tried a newer one. When the ibeam first came out, some people complained it sounded thin and nasally, and there was a store in Santa Cruz that was installing them with thicker foam tape that seemed to sound better - this is a bit like what I think Gary may have been saying - the direct contact may actually produce more trebles and a harsh sound rather than more bass. Superglue on the bridgeplate, if it doesn't work will pretty ensure you can't use a trance - it won't adhere properly with the tape or barge cement once the bridgeplate has superglue on it, which again is contradictory with PUTW pickups where he at least used to recommend smearing a little superglue on the bridgeplate to create a smooth bondable surface... too many variables, and that's without getting into the effects of bridgeplate material and thickness, bracing patterns, and so on.
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After about 6 months without doing so, I just plugged-in my Trance M-VT-equipped Martin HD-28 into my Line 6 L2t, and playing with only the Trance M-VT's Tone control, and with all the L2t's EQ set flat, my amplified tone playing with a flatpick is close to my-guitar-only-louder (which is what I'm after). I mounted the Amulets in this guitar with my even-pressure all-over C-clamp method which has always yielded decent results in several Trance installations. Trance's Gary Hull's method of selective pressure mounting of the Amulets is his recommended method of pinpointing the tone you want to hear, and likely will yield the best-amplified tone, but it's tedious to do*.
*This is likely why the Amulet transducers are called Lenses because they can be focused by pressing on certain areas of the transducer to pick up as full a vibrational spectrum and signal strength as possible in its mounted position.