[nightchef]

Originally Posted by BluesKing777

Here are a few more....

So I play the same tune by David Hamburger a number of times with different pickups....

First up, my Waterloo WL-14X with my Baggs M1A fine tuned and run through Fishman Pro EQ to take the curly bits off. The Waterloo also has a K&K, so that is next. Then I mix both the M1A and the K&K together as a lot of people do:

https://soundcloud.com/bk7-3/various-pickups7a


Next, the Waterloo with my new Dimarzio Black Angel through Sunrise buffer preamp and Fishman Pro EQ, then Dimarzio BA and K&K mixed together:

https://soundcloud.com/bk7-3/various-pickups7b


Then the Waterloo with my Sunrise pickup through Sunrise buffer preamp and Fishman Pro EQ, and then the Sunrise mixed with the K&K:

https://soundcloud.com/bk7-3/various-pickups7c


Then as a bonus track, I grabbed my Black Maton and plugged direct to my mixer/record using the Maton AP5-Pro pickup system and played the same tune:


https://soundcloud.com/bk7-3/pickup-test-a-777



BluesKing777.

This is really interesting, thanks. I found that of the unmixed soundhole pickups I like the M1A best, with the Sunrise a close second. But when they were mixed with the K&K I liked the DiMarzio best.

Oddly, given that I keep reading how the K&K has the most "natural" and "acoustic" sound among pickup options, to me the unmixed K&K sounded by far the most electric-ish of all the samples, with a very mid-forward, "honking" quality. It's a cool sound, actually, but it doesn't feel much like an acoustic guitar. The soundhole pickups all sound more like an acoustic to me.