pickup for fingerstyle on a cheapish crafter acoustic - suggestions £100 budget for s/h pup

nickp

I am going to get a secondhand pickup for the acoustic in prep for a gig later this year playing a bunch of fingerstyle solo tunes (classical to jazz and all points in between).  no vocal.

i've got a £300 crafter that i'm using so it's not a great guitar and it'll be amplified so i need to get a pickup and get used to playing with amplification.

what pickup would you suggest - are the bolt on humbucker or the seymour duncan woody pickups ok?  I've got a budget of say £100 for secondhand - which would suggest a new price of say £180 ish if i can pick something up on here or facebook.

no point going more expensive on a budget acoustic i don't think.  I'll be running into a helix then to a frfr speaker

thanks a lot
Nick

paganskins

Might not be the type of pickup you’re after, but I’ve a Schatten soundboard transducer type for sale, sealed and completely unused. 

http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/149320/fs-acoustic-and-archtop-pickups-and-preamp-schatten-and-fishman#latest

Funkfingers

The Woody comes in several versions. Choose according to how important hum-cancellation is to you.

Conventional humbuckers in adapter mountings tend to sound excessively middly and lack high frequency detail.

Fishman, L.R. Baggs and others make soundhole pickups. The active ones can sound very good - to the extent that they may expose the “cheapishness” of your guitar.

nickp

I am hoping that i can flog some gear and get a faith keeping the crafter for alt tunings but with funds as they are it looks like the crafter plus a pickup

nickp

paganskins said:

Might not be the type of pickup you’re after, but I’ve a Schatten soundboard transducer type for sale, sealed and completely unused. 

http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/149320/fs-acoustic-and-archtop-pickups-and-preamp-schatten-and-fishman#latest

that's an archtop i think which isn't ok for my distinctly flat acoustic; thanks

paganskins

nickp said:

paganskins said:

Might not be the type of pickup you’re after, but I’ve a Schatten soundboard transducer type for sale, sealed and completely unused. 

http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/149320/fs-acoustic-and-archtop-pickups-and-preamp-schatten-and-fishman#latest

that's an archtop i think which isn't ok for my distinctly flat acoustic; thanks

There’s two Schatten pickups in the ad, the arch top one and a soundboard transducer type for steel string acoustics