Seymore Duncan SA-1 Acoustic Tube pickup

Works great. I'm using it in a pretty old acoustic guitar (Aria). This guitar still has a very good neck and now can be heard easily when playing with the band.

Quite the surprise

I'm not a fan of pickups on acoustic guitars. They tend to make a nice acoustic sound much too electric. But I tried this in a tough. live session, put it on a Martin, and was quite amazed at how naturally acoustic the sound. The level was low, and there was some buzz from the overhead flourescents, so, those had to be extinguished, and with a touch of added top end, I got a quite natural, and quite detailed sound of the auditiorium body Martin, without that sharp, electric component heard with piezos.

It was a tight fit in the sound hole. Took some doing to get it in there, but it went quite effortlessly into a dreadnought later in the session.

Not quite as tasty as a good mic track, but the SA-1 solved more problems than it created. I can't wait to get it into a live show.