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
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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.