in this video i thought it would be a fun idea to show you three different types of
acoustic guitar pickup in three different budgets with increasing install difficulty
i've got the lr bags element preamp pickup the kna sg2 pickup that sits under the strings by the
bridge and the kna hp1 humbucker pickup that sits in the sound hole of the guitar and i'll be using
my ibanez ac340 for the comparison as it's already got the lr bags element installed i installed it
myself actually and i'll leave a video up there for you to have a look at i'll play the same thing
back to back so that you can hear the immediate differences and i'll be playing straight into
logic with no post effects then afterwards i'll just add a touch of reverb so let's get cracking
the lr bags is of course the most difficult to install in the most
expensive around 150 dollars as it does require drilling
not too bad if you're a bit handy though i mean i did it and it was my first time
plus it's got a tone and volume control that sits under the sound hole the sg2 is around 100 just
slips under the strings of the acoustic guitar by the bridge so all you need to do is loosen
the strings install it and then re-tune it's also got a volume control as well and the hp2 is the
easiest to install you just need a screwdriver and it sits in the sound hole of the guitar
so a little bit about each of the pickups and these aren't all of the pickups by any stretch
of the imagination lr bags do all sorts of active pre-amp pickups and kna do all sorts of pickups
for all types of instruments you know violins ukuleles nylon string guitars etc but the sg2
is made from mahogany and it's made from tone woods that are usually reserved for instruments
you also get a cable with it and on the cable you get a clothing clip so you can
attach that to your belt or your clothing and then you also get a jack at the end so you can
attach your instrument cable the one that you're used to usually using with regards
to the hp one i kept saying in hp 2 in the video sorry about that's the hp one this is actually a
humbucking pickup made of mahogany and made of fine tone woods again now kna also do the sp1
which is a single coil version of this particular pickup and with regards to the lr bags element
that's the vtc volume tone and compression so you get a volume and tone control
which just sits underneath the sound hole and that does require a 9 volt battery as
well which i tucked just under the front of the sound hole when i installed it and it's all in
that install video but i'll show you a couple of pictures here so vast ranges of acoustic
instrument pickups available but these were just the ones that i had available
now of course there are many different acoustic guitar pickups out there but i
just thought it'd be a fun idea to show you three that i had available so that
you could see the different types of acoustic pickups that are out there