Fishman Neo-D Magnetic Humbucker Acoustic Pickup

Very happy with it. It arrived quickly and installs and uninstalls easily. I purchase it for experimentation in the studio. My Yamaha DW-5 6 string comes out in the morning, gets played on and off all day in various rooms of the house, and gets put away at night. I realized that even though the pickup goes on and off quickly, I just didn't want to deal with it regularly. And without plugging in, it does detract from the sound, not to mention the wire. Then I remembered my $29 experimental / luthier practice guitar (Huntington) that mostly just collected dust. Now it's my favorite new toy. With the Neo D Humbucker played through my Boss ME-70 and Fender amp, it sounds fantastic (of course all my guitars do thanks to the ME-70). What sounded like a $29 guitar now has it's own unique character and great sound with lots of options for self-expression. A tough guitar to play, but improves my playing and makes playing the electrics and 12 string feel easy. Without the ME-70, the pickup simply takes the sound of the guitar and makes it louder and somewhat changes the sound. It sounds good, it's a great pickup, but by itself not what I needed in the studio. With the effects pedal, I now have another large set of virtual guitars. I'll be interested to see what it does with the 12 string.

I have a 1976 Takamine "lawsuit" acoustic guitar. It sounds great, but its value is mostly sentimental to me, so I don't want to drill it. The Fishman Humbucker is a great alternative. Really nice sound, and I found it to be perfectly loud enough through a Bose S1 Pro. Super easy to install and I don't have any issues with the cord hanging out of the soundhole. I would definitely recommend it for these reasons. Price is right too.

I didn’t have great expectations for this type of pickup so I was pleasantly surprised at how great it is. It installs in seconds, is very safe for your guitar finish and it sounds awesome. I plugged directly into an acoustic amp and was immediately impressed with the results. This is the perfect solution for those of us who don’t want to drill holes, etc. It can be easily move amongst all of my guitars. I got the Humbucking version and highly recommend it.

Sound is great, a little quiet but it does a good job of evenly picking up all of the strings. I also have a K & K pure mini and this is much better at accurately reproducing the acoustic sound of the guitar, but I needed something to go into an amp that wouldn't feedback so humbucker it was. If you're looking to really get a great acoustic guitar sound I would recommend going for a bridge or mic pickup instead. I did test this up against a Seymour Duncan Woody and this thing blows that out of the water, at least on my guitar. The only thing I would change is to make the cord removable. Because it's permanently attached to the pickup and the pickup screws into place with a philips head screwdriver, it that means that either you always have a cord hanging off your guitar, or you have to carry a screwdriver with you and unscrew the pickup to remove it when you're not using it. I ended up clipping the cord and inserting my own jack mid-line which works fine but it would be preferable to just have some sort of jack built into the pickup itself. On another note, it's recommended for the sake of the finish on the guitar not to leave it on all the time, so maybe they should just change the way that it installs so that you don't need a screwdriver. On that note, maybe they could make it adjustable too because when I first installed the pickup it was too high and was hitting the strings so I had to take a razor blade and slice off about half of the cork on the top side to get it down far enough that my strings wouldn't come in contact with it. I have a luthier guitar though so this might not be an issue for a factory instrument. So I guess, it does it's job well enough though you may have to do some custom mods to make it work for you.

Fishman Neo-D Passive Soundhole Pickup - Humbucker I have a Yamaha 6 string from the mid 60's that sounds great. top of the line. It is a real pain sitting a mic next to it and trying to keep that perfect distance between the mic and the sound hole. I didn't want to have a hole drilled into my guitar, so this one was suggested to me. Yes you have a cord hanging down but that is much much better than having to deal with a mic in the way. No humm, no buzz, just that same great sound you get without a mic just comming through my amp (Fender Pro Reverb, tube, and a Fender Mustang 3) Easy to put in too. If you have any trouble figureing out how to get it in just go find a 6 year old and they will have it put in, in about 5 min. Two screws and slide it in, thats all. It would be nice if they had put in a volume control on it. But they didn't, so you can use the one on your amp. I plan on getting one for my Yamaha 12 string too (also mid 60's). If you want a pick up for your accustic guitar I would suggest this one.

I was enthusiastic about giving this pickup a chance vs a more permanent installation in my guitar. After mounting, I plugged it into my Strymon Iridium. Had to turn gain and volume to max and barely heard anything. OK, not good. Next, tried a NUX acoustic preamp pedal specifically designed for this sort of thing. Again, had to max the gain to hear anything and that greatly increased the background hiss from the amp. I tried it in a couple of different acoustic guitars with no luck. Ultimately, I returned the pickup. I don't know if I got a bad one or what. Mine was the humbucker model if that matters. And, yes, of course my acoustics were using normal gauge steel strings that should be compatible with a magnetic pickup.

5 stars for the sound, quality, and ease of install but I received a previously used/returned Neo-D Humbucking pickup (packaging was taped together and cable showed obvious previous usage and rewrapping). This was a sold by Amazon purchase.

Very easy to install! No battery needed! Just plug in and adjust the volume on the amp to play! Highly recommend for other people to get!

easy to install and sounds great. use it primarily for an inexpensive Simon & Patrick awesome 12 string. very happy with it. the Chord can get in your way when new and not yet "formed" to however you route it. I was aware the chord was integral to p/u so I cant complain.... so watch for that. otherwise. excellent , delivered on time and in prefect condition as well

Bom captador. Poderia ter a opção de plugue no captador para fazer uma instalação permanente sem necessidade de cortar o cabo.

Der Pickup ist sehr unempfindlich gegen Rückkopplungen und der Sound ist für mich genial. Klar, der Klang ist natürlich subjektiv zu beurteilen, und meine Westernklampfe klingt jetzt nicht gleich wie ne Les Paul, aber er unterscheidet sich schon sehr von nem Singlecoil Pickup -wärmer und dreckiger, aber trotzdem klar und akzentuiert. Einfach schön über einen Voll-Röhrenamp zu spielen. Ich habe ihn fest eingebaut und kann ihn nun sowohl unverstärkt über einen nachträglich eingebauten Gurtpin-Plug, als auch über den eingebauten Vorerstärker (Fishman Isis 3) und die vorhandene Buchse abgreifen. Aber Achtung! Der Pickup kann nicht ohne Modifikation an den Preamp angeschlossen werden! Hier hier die Informationen, welche ich auf Anfrage von Fishman bekommen habe: "The input impedance of the preamps is 20Meg ohm with 68pF load capacitance. It also floats at 4.5V which is fine for a piezo pickup. If the customer plans to connect a magnetic pickup to the Prefix, he will need to insert a 0.1uF capacitor (25V or higher) in series with the input (between the pickup hot and input hot)." Also ich habe einen guten MKT-Folienkondensator vom Gitarrendoktor meines Vertrauens verwendet und es funzt super! (der alte Piezo-Pickup wurde entsorgt und ein entsprechend höherer Knochensteg eingebaut). Inwieweit diese Anleitung bei anderen Preamps funktioniert kann ich natürlich nicht sagen. Für mich ist dies eine echte Aufwertung meiner Gitarre. Meistens spiele ich den Pic über der Gurtpin (also un-vorverstärkt) denn der Output ist völlig ausreichend und meine Röhrenamps können gut damit umgehen. Spass machen aber auch die zusätzlichen Möglichkeiten der Vorverstärkung mit der Klangregelung.. Ich kann diesen Pickup vollstens empfehlen! Einfach ausprobieren bevor man ihn fest einbaut, und erstmal den Sound geniessen!!

Love it easy installation- just keep a stamdard small screw driver handy! Works so well- absolutely crisp sounds

Bastante bueno, la instale a una Taylor GS mini y todo bien, quiero hacer el upgrade de dejarlo permanente