Of course make sure you don't use an electric-guitar amp but an acoustic amp or go straight into the PA via a DI, best an acoustic-optimised one like a Radial Tonebone or LRBaggs ParaDI. This can be a very simple buffer:Īfter that, the frequency response should be much clearer. It's mostly the cable that's responsible for this, so you want a decoupling circuit right after the pickup. If you want to keep the PU as it is in the guitar, there's another parameter you can change to keep the filter in check: you can lower the capacitance. Unfortunately it also makes the signal voltage much weaker, but that can actually be compensated easily with a preamp. the coil uses thicker wire with fewer windings, which leads too a much smaller inductance. Properly designed modern acoustic PUs achieve this through a low-impedance spec, i.e. They can also give a decent acoustic sound, but it's crucial that you avoid the resonant lowpass-filter effect. A humbucker is essentially two coils right next to. The Humbucker arose from the need to get more volume and output from pickups while also negating the loud hum that was generated by single coils. Magnetic pickups actually remain the best in terms of feedback robustness etc. Humbuckers are one of the most popular and well known types of guitar pickups (along with the Strat-style single coil and P90). Single-coil pickups, most commonly associated with Fender guitars such as the Telecaster and Stratocaster, are known for having bright and twangy tone.
Since the creation of the Strat’s pickups, the design remained the same, but don’t let that fool you.
The single coil will give you trebble, and the humbucker will give you mids. To this day, the Fender Strat is still the most famous of all single coil guitars, with a tone many have come to know and love. The humbucker will give you a thicker sound, and the single coil will give you a twangier sound. Unfortunately that brings lots of problems in a live setting. humbucker pickup debate is about as old as the pickups themselves. The birth year of the Fender Stratocaster, and its single coil pickups. To get a more acoustic sound, the best option is of course to use a microphone. (Why did you buy such a guitar if you don't want its characteristic sound?) It's no big surprise then that it sounds more like an electric guitar: such a pickup, together with the cable capacitance, forms a 2nd order lowpass filter, and that gives the characteristic electric-guitar sound. Its pickup is not an acoustic-guitar pickup at all but, well, basically a standard high-impedance humbucker in small format. So this guitar is quite a unique model, the John Lennon signature.