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It's a contact pickup made for nylon and nylon-core strings such as classical strings. I mention this because I also play a guitelele with a classical guitar bridge and this fits nicely in the space between the saddle and where the strings wrap around it (my description is inadequate so go look at the bridge of a classical nylon-string guitar) This is superior to those early contact pickups (like shadow and barcus-berry) that use spirit gum and pick up all the vibrations of the top. This only leads to major feedback and bad signal to noise levels that are just unusable. While not perfect, it does a better job of transmitting the string vibration and some of the top without resorting to feedback at high levels. It sounds a lot better if you use a direct-input (DI) preamp box (Fishman makes great ones) or a simple impedance matching box (Countryman DI) to get an XLR balanced output for a PA system. Using these options gives you more tonal control and puts your nylon string instrument on par with the electrics and the vocalists. Even though it's a piezo pickup, take note that it doesn't sit under the saddle (so you don't need a drill and files to route out your guitar) but behind the saddle. This principle is similar to what Taylor guitars is using in its ES-2 expression system, except that Taylor's pickup is patented and only available on Taylor instruments. The essential physics are the same: it picks up string vibration from behind the saddle, and is less likely to distort the sound by the increased pressure on the saddle that makes piezo-bridge mounted pickups a little less naturally sounding. I'm not a physics major, so I encourage you to read up on this principle.Read full review
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