As a couple of you may know I've been looking for an acoustic pickup for sometime. After much deliberation and procrastination I decided that a sound hole would be the route I'd be going down. I looked at fishman, k&k, lr baggs and a few others. Again after more nail biting and head scratching I bought an M80.
The design is really compact and innovative. You have an active/passive switch which is discretely hidden underneath which allows you preserve battery power but have the same tone. Also a 4 band LED read out for remaining battery level which is really cool. Finally it has a volume wheel on the treble side of the pickup which is discrete but easily reached.
Fitting it was mostly a doddle. Apart from having to ream out the strap button hole (which I can tell you caused many poos to escape) it really was easy.
After fitting and restringing I plugged her into the clean channel of my dualist (fendery dumbly style) and was blown away. It's so natural sounding and responsive. The body response magnet really does it's job and makes percussive playing great. I can't wait to hear it through a decent PA or acoustic amp. Really couldn't recommend it enough.
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