How well does the LR Baggs Hifi with only two sensors, pick up the D and G strings?

[acousticchiq]

so the K&K has 3 sensors, one between each 2 strings. E-A, D-G and B-E.

But the Hifi is meant to install with only 2 sensors between the low E and A and between the high E and B.

Wouldnt that mean the D and G strings aren't getting picked up as much as the other 4 strings?

I just bought this pick up to install in my custom shop guitar and I'm curious how that works.

Are the mids weaker than the lows and highs with this pickup?

[Brent Hahn]

Mine's dead even across all 6 strings.

[Mandobart]

I don't know about the Baggs specifically, but I've installed a bunch of 2 head piezo SBT's in many instruments (K&K and JJB). A couple years back I started using 3 head SBT's in my guitars (JJB). I personally can't tell any difference.

[Petty1818]

Not sure if there's anything to this, but the K&K typically needs a reduction in the mids to sound good. I always associated the three transducers with added mid range. The two transducer approciate seems to be clearer from the get go but there's no issue with the D & G strings sounding weaker.

[Doug Young]

Note that Trance and Dazzo both use 2 sensors very much like the HiFi and have been using this approach for ages, with no balance issues. It's all in the design.

[martingitdave]

It works great and even across strings. Same as Trance Amulet, which it appears based on.

[PineMarten]

I've also been curious as to the effect of two versus three sensors. I have a JJB with three 15mm discs on my Eastman OM, and one with two 20mm discs on my cittern which covers a similar range to guitar. The cittern requires noticeably less EQ tweaking in the mids, which makes me wonder how a two sensor pickup would fare on guitar. It seems like if the string balance can be managed, fewer sensors might mean less of the complex phasey midrange artifacts.

[SpruceTop]

My two LR Baggs HiFi installations and two Trance Amulet M-VT installations have even-sounding, string-to-string output signal balance. No complaints.