Jeff's sound hole pick up

[acuff-rose]

Hey, Anyone know what kind of sound hole pick up Jeff uses in concert?

[groovingdan]

Hey, Anyone know what kind of sound hole pick up Jeff uses in concert?

 

I've been wanting to know this as well.

[Ralph]

Jeff uses an L.R. Baggs M1 passive along with a Fishman Matrix Natural 2, wired to a single stereo/TRS output jack.

Peace.

[tft3323]

I put the LR Baggs M1 Active on my Santa Cruz 000 about a year ago and have been extremely pleased. The guys at the local guitar store were trying to talk me into the B-Band (which I have hear good things about) but no regrets on the Baggs at all. Just a very pure sound -- not tinny. I have played through a PA and through an amp, both with good results.

[Ralph]

I put the LR Baggs M1 Active on my Santa Cruz 000 about a year ago and have been extremely pleased. The guys at the local guitar store were trying to talk me into the B-Band (which I have hear good things about) but no regrets on the Baggs at all. Just a very pure sound -- not tinny. I have played through a PA and through an amp, both with good results.

Do you play it through a tube amp?

I have an M1 Active on my 0-16NY...love it through a PA, but it sounds kinda honky through my tube amp...might be the amp though ('62 Silvertone 1482 w/ 12" Weber alnico).

[lost highway]

I find all acoustic guitars sound honky through tube amps and I don't mean that ethnically.

 

I love my M1 direct, there are others that are also good but M1 is top shelf.

[jtrollmann]

I first saw Jeff play the SCGC 000 and the Baggs M1 on the Sunken Treasure DVD and was really smitten.

 

So now I've played a Baggs M1 Active in my SCGC 000 for about a year and a half now. I've only played it through a p.a. It is a powerful pickup and has quit a bit of midrange. I've found that with the right EQ, i.e. bringing down the mids from the p.a. mixer (or one of those pedal eq's) dials in a really sweet tone. I love it.

 

The other pickup I've seen footage of, and it may be on ST DVD, that Jeff has a Sunrise sound hole pickup on one of the guitars. I also considered a Sunrise. It is a passive magnetic pickup made by Jim Kaufman. I've not played one, but only heard mp3 comparisons of the Baggs and Sunrise on the internet. In the end, I liked the sound that the Baggs M1 Active produced.

[tft3323]

It is a tube amp -- a '74 Fender Vibro Champ. The sound is not as good as through a PA, but not bad at all. Compared to any other pick up I have used, it is much better. I would love to try it through a quality tube amp made specifically for acoustic guitar though.

[acuff-rose]

Hey, thanks everyone. Very helpful stuff.....

[In a little rowboat]

Id add that when i went to the M1a, the tone projected well and the balance across the strings was very good, but because the pick up is magnetic, the guitar lost a certain amount of percussiveness that i really needed...i am going to add a fishman UST like what Jeff uses, but one addition i was really impressed with was the aphex acoustic exciter...it is a processor that adds some eq in critical spots while taking out honky and synthetic frequencies...i wont play the acoustic live without it now

 

http://www.aphex.com/pedals.htm