[Steve DeRosa]

Originally Posted by radiofm74

I suggest reading this little gem: https://www.campusfive.com/swingguit...ng-guitar.html

...My own Loar LH-700 is strung with Martin retro 12s because it is equipped with a DeArmond FHC and bronze strings do not balance well with that pickup...

FYI he used to be an AGF member, and posted with some regularity here on the Archtop subforum; if you haven't heard his YouTube clips he's also one heluva player, and one of the very few born after the Eisenhower Administration who really "gets it" when it comes to acoustic archtops...

FWIW I'd try a set of monel 13's at your next string change - more acoustic volume and more signal to the pickup...