New Guitar - what say you pickup people?

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Originally Posted by martingitdave

Very interesting. I’m eagerly awaiting your results. Hopefully it won’t be the same as the HFN glue experiment. Sounded ok through the PA with the highs rolled off. But it didn’t work direct. But I guess it only matters if you record direct - I don’t. I used a mic for recording or casting.

Dave, FYI, my latest sound files now include more Larrivee C-03 TE/Trance Amulet M-VT Phantom with Henkel Loctite 6-Minute Epoxy mounted Amulets, and Larrivee D-40R and Larrivee D-40M with their Dazzo #70 Sets mounted with Henkel Loctite 6-Minute Epoxy. I've recorded demos of each guitar with the same song segment and for three different songs. I've recorded a fingerpicked song and two songs using a flatpick with all songs played aggressively on each guitar. This makes it easy to hear any tonal peculiarities that may be present in the pickup systems and to compare the pickup tone generated by each guitar and pickup combination. Coming up soon will be sound files generated by an Ultra Tonic 3.2 Pickup System in either a 2016 Martin D-18 or a 2020 Martin HD-28, and from another Trance Amulet M-VT Phantom installation in one of the two aforementioned mentioned Martins.

The new sound-file thread is at: Larrivee C-03 TE/Trance Amulet M-VT Phantom & Larrivee D-40R/D-40M/Dazzo #70 Demos