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	Telecaster Guitar Forum > Other Discussion Forums > Acoustic Heaven > most electric sounding mag pickup for acoustic PDA most electric sounding mag pickup for acoustic Jef March 7th, 2009, 02:37 PM Hello, I have this old Aria 12 string acoustic (sounds and plays great as long as you don't go too far beyond the 5th fret) that I want to use at gigs for some parts. I want to play it through my SF Pro Reverb and I'm loooking for a tone that's more electric than acoustic sounding. Any suggestions for a (rather cheap?) magnetic soundhole pickup that would get me there? Thanks! Jef weelie March 7th, 2009, 05:13 PM I am definitely no expert, but I am just dropping into say: I too would love to have an electric sound on my acoustic! I wonder why all the acoustic pickups say they make the acoustic sound as acoustic as humanly possible... when they usually don't, plus I'd like to go the other way. Lightnin Hopkins or JJ Cale way, you know. I used to have a DiMarzio "Reference" DP139 which was kinda in the "electric sounding" direction. A sweet jazz-blues clean sound. Sold it when I got a parlor (it didn't fit in the soundhole), and sort of miss it. If I was able to find one second hand again, I'd get one, I think I paid 70EUR for mine back then (like 5 years ago). Don't know if they still make'em. TNO March 7th, 2009, 10:43 PM The old DeArmond soundhole pickups will do what you want and go very cheap on ebay. Papa Joe March 7th, 2009, 11:57 PM Yep on the DeArmond... weelie March 9th, 2009, 09:39 AM Sure, but aren't there a lot of models, and the best ones real expensive? Little Brother Jones liked the Sunrise OK: http://www.littlebrotherblues.com/Gear/SunrisePickup/index.htm Here's his input to DeArmond: http://www.littlebrotherblues.com/Gear/DeArmonds/index.html Jef March 9th, 2009, 10:05 AM Over here in Europe, those old DeArmond soundhole pickups are not exactly cheap...! I found a new Schaller soundhole pickup (http://www.thomann.de/be/schaller_10-43_pickup.htm)that looks interesting... Jim W March 9th, 2009, 08:32 PM Jim Schwall from the Siegel Schwall band used an old Gibson B25 with a DeArmond pickup. He always sounded great Papa Joe March 10th, 2009, 10:15 AM Dang, I sold mine for $25 and thought I was gettin a deal... Durango Twango March 10th, 2009, 12:54 PM +1 on the DeArmonds, and the good ol' Lawrence soundhole pickups, though and electric amp, sound pretty darned electric. Heard a guy in Montreal blues club many years ago playing a J45 with an old and microphonic PAF mounted in the soundhole (home made mount). He ran it into a blackface twin with JBLs. While it wouldn't be accused of sounding dead on acoustic, it was musical as #&!! and was a LOT easier to listen to than most plugged in acoustic tones I hear. I say go for it! RomanS March 16th, 2009, 08:33 PM Over here in Europe, those old DeArmond soundhole pickups are not exactly cheap...! I found a new Schaller soundhole pickup (http://www.thomann.de/be/schaller_10-43_pickup.htm)that looks interesting... I've got one of those, a very old one, though... It's a very bright single coil, relatively low output, will give you a classic, sligthly gritty/nasty blues tone, very in-your-face (so don't count on using it for refined dinner jazz). BTW, think about hooking it up to a tone pot, as I said, it is quite bright!