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    Registered User Mandobart's Avatar
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    Default Re: Is this a good idea? Pickup installation video

    No. There is so much bad advice on this video, where to begin? I would not follow this guys directions on how to do anything. The following are just real bad:
    1. Mounting the (low quality cheapo) preamp in the side. There just isn't room in a mando even for that small preamp. Seriously compromised the instrument's structure.
    2. Mounting a jack in unsupported side wood is just asking to tear out a chunk of wood later when you step on the cord while in motion.
    3. Routing a channel in the bridge with a rotozip?
    4. Dismissing everything else that many top players have successfully used for years (soundboard pickups, mics, external quality preamps, etc.) as "they all suck."

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    Dr. Groovy thinks very highly of himself doesn’t he.
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    I'm glad I asked. Thanks for the reply.

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    "It actually goes inside your bridge, because that's the way I invented it."

    "Even if Ricky Skaggs himself tells you to buy something. Um no. I've seen that guy on a bicycle on a diving board plastered drunk falling off of it into the pool."

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    Default Re: Is this a good idea? Pickup installation video

    If you want to do a pick up, consider one of these: http://jjb-electronics.com/The_Marcato.html...
    I quite literally just got one and am pleased with it so far... sets up super easy and quick... I’m happy so far with how it sounds.
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