Hi folks,
I'm thinking of treating myself to a decent acoustic. I'm a home player and it's unlikely I'll ever be gigging but it's just conceivable I may join some acoustic night sessions down the local once things return a bit more to normal, ditto re open mic stuff so I'm quite tempted by getting something with a pickup but welcome fretboard folks' thoughts on the the relative merits of factory fitted vs retrofit as can either spend my budget solely on the guitar and add pickup later if straightforward or get the future stuff included from the start...
In terms of budget I've been looking at instruments from the Furch yellow, orange and possibly red series. Would welcome other suggestions as to what to look at also!
Many thanks
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I'd get the guitar I wanted and then fit a K & K Pure mini pickup later. Or get a Bedell as they have K & Ks fitted when made.
Is it obvious I like K & K acoustic pickups.....
I'm a big fan of LR Baggs stuff. I had an M1A in my old Taylor 214 workhorse, and now have an Anthem in my Martin.
K&K seem to get pretty universal high praise and an LR Baggs Anthem side mount was the other I was looking at. Time to start getting out and trying instruments!
Cheers , the guitar search commences!
Modern retro-fit pickups and outboard preamps are in a different league from most of what you get fitted onboard until you get up to pretty high-end guitars, and then there's every chance the system will be obsolete before the guitar has nicely aged, even if it hasn't already failed by then...
I would only buy an electro-acoustic if I had an immediate and principal need for it as a stage guitar.
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