Modest price acoustic pickup suggestions, if you please

[menhir]

Just a tad over your price range, but for your purposes you might want to look into a Seymour Duncan Woody HC (Hum cancelling) soundhole pickup.

The electronics were going a bit futzy on one of my guitars and rather than repair or replace them I bought the Woody instead.
I plugged it into my amp, also a Fishman Artist, and it sounded like my guitar.

No muss, no fuss, no installing, no batteries, no fiddling with the pickup setting (it ain't got none)...Just stick it in the sound hole, plug it in, adjust the settings on your amp, and play.

Plus, as you mentioned, you can move it from one guitar to another.

Caveat: I've only used this in my home so far, but the lead singer in a band I performed with for many years had a simple passive pickup in her guitar. Never once had a problem with it.

[Irish Pennant]

Originally Posted by Wooly

I think you you email Jessie at JJB and let him know what happened, he would be able to help you out with that.

Jessie took care of it, if you read AGF, thanks for the great service. The pickup came in today, I'll install it tomorrow.

[ssjk]

I got the JJB in the mail yesterday and, with six inches of snow on the ground and at least six more to follow today, no reason I can't get it installed. Then I plug it into the loudbox and find out whether a preamp is needed. Hope not - I'll let you know.

[ssjk]

Installed JJB unit and volume control with very little drama. Works fine direct into Loudbox Artist at least at "in my office" volume.