How do you install a pickup in an acoustic guitar? There are many different guitar and pickup types obviously so there's no short answer to that. This time we show you a "standard stiuation" with a traditional acoustic guitar and a simple but great undersaddle pickup.
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Interesting bits and pieces:
0:00 Introduction
0:40 Short diclaimer
0:56 Measure the guitar before choosing a pickup
1:17 Drill a hole for the undersaddle pickup
1:55 Endpin hole for the preamp and the jack
2:37 The installation - useful tools
3:38 Saddle height adjustment
4:23 Control unit at the sound hole
5:12 Cable clamps inside the body
5:28 Time for a test ride
6:11 Outtakes
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