Customer Reviews

Tyler Mountain Electric Transducer Pickup for Acoustic Stringed Instruments

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I bought this transducer pickup for my mountain dulcimer. I am truly amazed at the sound- crystal clear with little to no coloring of your instrument's natural sound. I had to turn my amp up a bit to be sure I was actually hearing it and not just the dulcimer..... The sound is THAT close to natural acoustic! And it's loud as well.... If I have my little 15W practice amp over 4, the wife is yelling at me to turn down. (And she wears a hearing aid) This is an excellent little transducer pickup and I would highly recommend it to anyone needing to amplify an acoustic instrument. However, like the previous reviewer, I have some concerns about the bracket holding the output jack. It is somewhat flimsy and I worry that it could snap when unplugging my cable. I have to give it 5 stars just for the sound alone though.

This is exactly what I needed. I couldn't find much information online about this pickup, except for the few reviews here on Amazon. I did find a Youtube video of a guy playing on a cigarbox guitar with one of these pickups, but it is hard to make a solid decision based on the compressed sound that Youtube has to offer. I suppose it did help a little to see it in action. So then I took a chance and bought this pickup for my Lanikai LU-21C Concert Ukulele which I picked up while on vacation in Hawaii. I plugged this pickup into a Danelectro N10A Honey Tone Mini Amp in Aqua that I bought here on Amazon.

A ukulele is quiet, by nature, but now I can jam along with an acoustic and not get drowned out. The overall tone is great and, paired with the Honeytone mini amp, is a sonic miracle. Loud, clean, and crisp.

This pickup is designed to adhere to the body of your stringed instrument. I managed to stick it under the bridge (as recommended), and then stick the jack onto the bottom of my ukulele. I achieved another goal, putting this pickup onto my instrument where it sits out of the way of my arms/hands while playing AND it still fits into my ukulele case without having to take it off the instrument.

The only minor drawback that I discovered is that this pickup will resound any vibrations from your instrument; i.e., if you rub your shirt against the body of the instrument, it will reproduce a "scratchy" sound out of your amp. This is expected, due to the nature of this pickup, but it is not enough of a problem for me to take a star away from my review. That small issue may be something you wish to consider when shopping around for pickups.

I hope this review helped. I will post a follow-up later when I try this pickup out with proper PA which I intend to buy within the next couple months. I have no doubts that this will continue to impress me.

I was really surprised by how good this sounded (mine is affixed to my irish bouzouki) and the ease of installation. My only grouse is that the external mount for the instrument cable jack feels rather flimsy

This pick up is great for amplifying your acoustic instrument. It works for guitar and can pick up the higher notes of a banjo or mandolin.