Rob Reedijk wrote:
Geoff Wood -nospam wrote:

They do. Works for live at a pinch like all piezo pickups, but a
mic is much better. Unless you area purist woody-onlyguitar-snob,
in which case nothing is appropriate.

I am not! I also detest Takamines.

I've never heard a piezo pikup on any acoustic that sounded anythig other
than "clanky-screetchy". But my Ovation Legend (deep bowl) sounds beautiful
acoustically, and I've heard quite a few good-sounding Takamines too !

geoff


One of the best sounding acustics that I ever heard was an Ovation carbor top
without pickups installed. Loud, clean and even response.

The installation of pickups on guitars really kills sound.

The Ovation pickups are really heavy and really mute the sound, but amplified
are passable.

I'm not going to get into the wood/plastic debate. There are a lot of great
sounding all wood guitars that I would much rather own than an Ovation, but at
least an Ovation is replaceable with virtually the same instrument if damaged,
destroyed or stolen. The same can't be said for that "guitar of a lifetime"
Martin. (or whatever your instrument of choice is)
Richard H. Kuschel
"I canna change the law of physics."-----Scotty