Acoustic Guitar Pickups

[mojobone]

I don't think anyone here would debate the usefulness of a pickup in a live setting, it's just that pickups don't hear the guitar the way the ear does; they amplify a single aspect of an instrument that we normally hear as source+reflections, so there's really no single p/u that'll give you what a microphone does. There's no reason not to record guitars using pickups, as long as you don't mind it sounding unnatural.

[davewalton]

Aug 4, 2008, 1:05pm, mojobone wrote:I don't think anyone here would debate the usefulness of a pickup in a live setting...They're great for hauling equipment. Not as good as a van or panel truck but still useful.

[edteja]

Unless it rains. You never want to haul your gear in a pickup in the rain. No matter how you mic it, it gets wrecked.