Pastilla de Guitarra, Pastilla de Contacto Piezoeléctrico para Guitarra Ukelele Erhu Banjo Instrumento Musical

1) **You will need to buy an impedence adapter** if you don't want it to sound like a little toy with a violent HPF, no lows. An adapter costs more than the mic, but makes it very usable.2) Lean against/brace/clamp the mic for quiet sounds and you'll get very good levels because there's more *contact* :) I was recording idling bus engines and even in 32-bit float the signal was conservative. I leaned against the mic and the level jumped to a very healthy level with lots of deep bass. If you just attach it as-is it's pretty quiet, which still works for loud sources. If you press it against your source it's a huge boost esp low rumbly sounds.

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Lower than expected volume.

I'm a pro luthier/repair tech for about 35yrs and I sometimes try cheaper less expensive products if I think it'll be interesting or worth the risk. Can't harm anything with a bad pickup if it doesn't work. I really thought I'd get a better result than I did w/this one. I see others are saying it's working for them--good they got what they were looking for so cheap. Weighing in against a truly professional, or even average performance pickup, the flaws in this design are what have inspired me to be the party-pooper here, sorry.I see one reviewer using them for drum triggers. I'll bet they'd be great for that. As an acoustic instrument pickup however, they just barely fail in my opinion. I tested this on a mandolins. If you have a larger surface like a dreadnaught or classical they MIGHT possibly work a touch better than on a smaller tighter body like a mandolin. First off the molded jack is on the WRONG side. For the thing to mount on the strap button these should have the "flap" facing the other direction. The design causes the jack to go in an odd direction--no real big issue maybe but there's more.The next issue is that the actual jack isn't smooth like a typical Switchcraft, and you have to "force" the 1/4" male jack into it increasing the risk of it failing or having the pressure of holding it too tight while forcing the jack connection to maybe bend the thin cable enough to eventually get damaged.The last-but-not-least is really the deal-breaker but it didn't have to be. The adhesive works awesome. Even switching it to another instrument it really didn't leave any mess on the paintjob and it stuck again to another surface very well. The issue though is the design of contact. This sounds very flimsy, weak, and paper-like on a the mandolins. When we tried playing through a couple of different amps (four to be exact) the SAME ISSUE cropped up, and that's that these really require more pressure of contact. When playing and at the same time SLIGHTLY pressing it on the surface (or having someone else do it), the sound improved DRAMATICALLY! In fact for a cheap pickup it would've been great if the contact are was designed to press closer to the surface. Maybe if you experimented and make a type of clip that put about a finger-weight of pressure on the back of the pickup you'd get a much more desirable sound, and then just learn to live with the jack issues. It would even sound decent recording direct.I also tried running it (with and without the added pressing) through an acoustic pre-amp and it was... "ok". I had to really EQ this thing to get it to sound warm enough for my mandolins. So if you'd like a project for fun trying to get a cheap contact pickup to sound good, you have my advice on what these would need to sound respectable. The potential IS THERE, I'm not taking that away from it, it's just not worth it to end up with a mediocre sound--but it's cheap if that's what you need, and it does sort-of work. Many many years ago, like back in the late 70's or early 80's there were these cheap alternative acoustic pickups I think called "sound checkers". THOSE really worked the way I was hoping this thing would. I didn't expect an L.R. Baggs or anything unreasonable, but this should've been designed a bit differently.I still may use it for something or try it on a tenor uke, maybe making a little pressure-clip to get it to perform better. Definitely though hook it up w/a preamp or booster pedal if you've got one.

Excelent.

Works exactly as it should.