Good for you Don!!
Are they really that much better than some of the others???
In what way?
Thanks,
Walter
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| Author: | Don Williams [ Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:34 am ] |
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I've joined the ranks of Tim McKnight and Bruce Dickey and have become a K & K pickup dealer. The only one in my state! Of course, there will be discounts to OLFer's if you ever need one. |
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| Author: | Tim McKnight [ Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:11 am ] |
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Way to go Don, I knew you could do it ! Everyone out there looking for a pickup. You deserve the best for your hand made guitar. Please consider a K&K when you are in the market for one. They are awesome! Right Bruce? |
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| Author: | Don Williams [ Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:31 am ] |
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I'll jump in before Bruce on that one.... I've been a Fishmann guy for years now, that is until I heard a K & K. It is a much more natural sounding pickup, and this without any electronics. I'm sold, and will be installing these as a stock pickup on all my spec guitars. |
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| Author: | Wade Sylvester [ Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:44 am ] |
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That is great Don! Hey, do you think one of those will work in a Mandolele? Wade |
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| Author: | WalterK [ Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:57 am ] |
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Good for you Don!! Are they really that much better than some of the others??? In what way? Thanks, Walter
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| Author: | yukonarizona [ Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:22 am ] |
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K&K pickups are great. That is true. Like all pickups however they have their strengths and weaknesses. I'd guess I've installed about two hundred K&Ks in all different manner of fretted instruments - mostly guitars, mostly the Pure Western Standard. Small room, small body guitar, solo, quiet audience, the K&K is an excellent choice. It does have a very natural acoustic sound, it's passive with a very strong signal, and it's pretty easy to install. Big room, big body guitar, band, loud audience, Fishman Matrix Natural is the way to go. The K&K runs too much risk of feeding back. There are other excellent choicse too like the BBand A2.2 with AST/UST transducers. Sometimes combos work great - like wiring the K&K stereo with a Fishman Rare Earth or Sunrise soundhole pickup, or even with the Fishman Matrix series. And, Fishman has just released their Aura system which is fantastic and may be the new standard for all acoustic guitar pickups - 'til next year that is. My two cents. |
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| Author: | Dickey [ Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:28 am ] |
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I like 'em. Wade, check the website and look at the various pickups they offer for acoustic stringed instruments. They not only have the standard and mini tranducer systems which are passive, but also have the undersaddle FantaStick and the Trinity system which includes the internal microphone. They have onboard controls or external preamps making the systems very versatile. Some folk don't care for all the wiring of the onboard preamps, but it sure is nice to have control on the instrument. So, with the belt clip preamp systems, all that stuff is removed from the guitar, but still available to the player. Congratulations Don, long live simple sound systems. |
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| Author: | EricKeller [ Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:13 pm ] |
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I thought twice about posting this, but I have two piezo discs glued inside the top of my acoustic with silicon sealant. One is on the bridge, and the other is on the bass side. Sounds great to me and everyone else that's heard it. Total investment: whatever the end-pin jack cost + $1.00 I'd like to do an a-b test sometime. |
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| Author: | Dave-SKG [ Thu Mar 24, 2005 1:16 am ] |
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Congrats Don! 
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| Author: | bob J [ Sun Mar 27, 2005 5:20 am ] |
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Don, Congratulations. Always nice to be a dealer for a quality product. I have read many good things about the K&K on the Forum. Could you please compare for me the K&K and the Baggs M-1? Can anybody else compare? |
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| Author: | yukonarizona [ Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:32 am ] |
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Bob, These are very different pickups meant for diifferent applications and thus hard to compare. This might explain the lack of response to your question. The M1 does have a capacity to pick up body vibration which is unlike other soundhole pickups. In that way it shares some similarity to the Pure Western, but the similarity ends there. Once a customer described to me his intended use for a pickup I might lead him toward a sound board/bridgeplate transducer or toward a humbucking soundhole pickup, or even a combination of the two wired into a stereo jack. But I would never really be wavering between the two types. Their strengths follow opposite forks down the old amplification road. |
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| Author: | Dickey [ Tue Mar 29, 2005 5:21 am ] |
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[QUOTE=yukonarizona] But I would never really be wavering between the two types. Their strengths follow opposite forks down the old amplification road.[/QUOTE] Yukon, okay, I've got a few minutes to go down both forks of the road. Educate us, and thanks, Bruce |
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