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Highlander pickups
- Thread starter bighouse
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Hi Bill,
what sort of pickup are you thinking of installing? I recently installed a Fishman Ellipse Blender system which is sorta like the Highlander P2....but also includes the preamp for blending the mic and the transducer. installation of the transducer is not difficult if one exercises care while adjusting the depth of the bone saddle to accomodate the height of the added transducer pickup in the bridge's saddle slot.
ce
what sort of pickup are you thinking of installing? I recently installed a Fishman Ellipse Blender system which is sorta like the Highlander P2....but also includes the preamp for blending the mic and the transducer. installation of the transducer is not difficult if one exercises care while adjusting the depth of the bone saddle to accomodate the height of the added transducer pickup in the bridge's saddle slot.
ce
Hi CE, thanks for responding.
I was considering a HIghlander, but they require that you rout the bottom of the saddle slot, which is beyond my comfort zone. What I ended up installing was a DTAR WAvelength, another undersaddle pickup (distant cousin to the Highlander) which is somewhat similar but required no routing. I didn't even have to sand down the saddle bottom, as the transducer strip added no significant height to the saddle.
I'm still trying to decide what I think of it. It's certainly less woody sounding than the K&K I replaced, which I expected, and doesn't have the characteristic magnetic tone the M1 had. With a little more fiddling and eq-ing I can probably minimize the undersaddle sound. I'm confident it will be better in louder settings, ie., much less prone to feedback than the K&K.
Bill
I was considering a HIghlander, but they require that you rout the bottom of the saddle slot, which is beyond my comfort zone. What I ended up installing was a DTAR WAvelength, another undersaddle pickup (distant cousin to the Highlander) which is somewhat similar but required no routing. I didn't even have to sand down the saddle bottom, as the transducer strip added no significant height to the saddle.
I'm still trying to decide what I think of it. It's certainly less woody sounding than the K&K I replaced, which I expected, and doesn't have the characteristic magnetic tone the M1 had. With a little more fiddling and eq-ing I can probably minimize the undersaddle sound. I'm confident it will be better in louder settings, ie., much less prone to feedback than the K&K.
Bill
Bill,
the thing I liked about the Fishman transducer was that it was so thin and flat which required me to remove very little material from the bottom of the saddle to get my action back inside my comfort zone. the blending of the two pickups gives a very natural tone from my D30 and the addition of a phase-cancelling button allows me to play without volume restrictions--at least none that I've noticed yet.
I've had no experience with DTAR so I can make no meaningful comparisons. best of luck
ce
the thing I liked about the Fishman transducer was that it was so thin and flat which required me to remove very little material from the bottom of the saddle to get my action back inside my comfort zone. the blending of the two pickups gives a very natural tone from my D30 and the addition of a phase-cancelling button allows me to play without volume restrictions--at least none that I've noticed yet.
I've had no experience with DTAR so I can make no meaningful comparisons. best of luck
ce