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Paul you are the second fellow luthier I have had the pleasure to aquaint with here on L.Delight!! This is great we can all communicate between each other. I have another live looping performance to prepare for so I gotta cut this short so come link up with me and my friends and www.myspace.com/albertiniguitarworks If at all possible be great to have ya!! :o) Peace Be With You and Yours, Daniel T. Albertini --- paul <phaslem@wightman.ca> wrote: > Hi Richard, > > I don't have any experience with the gk3 pickup but I did play around > with a gk2 for a while on my Taylor. Generally I found the tracking > wasn't real good until I switched strings to nickle wound strings. > The pickup just didn't seem to like the ph. bronze acoustic strings > at all. After using that for nearly a year I got an inexpensive > electric (a used Parker p44 about 450.00) and put a Graphtech Ghost > system (about 650.00) in it. Wow, an amazing difference! The pickup > system cost me more than the guitar did but was well worth it! Since > that experiment I've now built a small bodied electric with no mag > pickups but just the Graphtech ghost pickups and a fan fret neck. > Very happy with it. Graphtech is located in Vancouver and very nice > folks to talk to. I'm sure they'd talk to you about your options. > > I'll part with the Parker if anyone is interested........ > > > Paul Haslem > > > > At 04:16 AM 10/31/2007, you wrote: > >Richard Sales wrote: > > > >>So question - have any of you used the AXON AX 100? Has anyone used > >>it with an acoustic guitar? And do any of you know where to get > >>PICKUPS - especially the hexaphonic pickup for acoustic guitars? I > >>was given the AX 100 and it looks very cool. But it don't got no > >>pickup! Argh!!! It > > > >Hi Richard, > >probably the Roland p/u is your best bet, > >but check that the string spacing lines up first. > > > >You could check out the Graptech Ghost system > > > >http://www.graphtech.com/ > > > >...but I think that would need guitar surgery. > > > >Terratec market their own p/u, but don't make any claims about it > >being better than the Roland. > > > >General consensus is that the AX100 onboards sounds aren't up to much, > >so you might want to think about some kind of synth. > >(It's essentially a wavetable pc soundcard, the default piano sound > >is not so bad if you can stand digital piano, but otherwise think > >80's General Midi) > >Of course, if you want to plug in a laptop an run some soft synths > >using Bidule > >then you're going to enjoy yourself. > > > > > >andy butler > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com