Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email


News: - Make sure you know the Forum Rules and Guidelines

Also check out these related sites:

Author Topic: Martin acoustic  (Read 2211 times)

Offlineprimi

  • Camerado
  • ***
  • Posts: 131
  • Registered: April 2012
Martin acoustic
« on: January 01, 2018, 04:59:26 PM »
Hi everybody,

do we have any information about the pickups Mark uses in his Martin 000-40 acoustic? I think his signature edition Martin made a while back had no pickups installed but when he plays his acoustics he's plugged in and there is no soundhole pickup visible and no buttons on the side. Anybody knows anything about that?

P

Offlinekaleo74

  • Lady writer
  • ****
  • Posts: 525
  • Location: Montreal, Canada
  • Registered: August 2008
Re: Martin acoustic
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2018, 10:19:52 PM »
Hi,
This might help

Look at Microphones and Blended Systems:

https://reverb.com/news/choosing-the-right-pickup-for-your-acoustic-guitar
If I realised that the chances were slim,
How come I'm so surprised when the tide rolled in

Offlineborder_reiver

  • Founder
  • Romeo
  • *****
  • "I've been down in Louisiana playing on his album"
  • Posts: 1975
  • Location: Sweden
  • Registered: September 2009
Re: Martin acoustic
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2018, 10:25:13 PM »
If I recall, Martin installed Fishman from factory.

However this doesn't say anything about the actual pickup used by MK.
"My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues."

Offlinequizzaciously

  • Brother in Arms
  • ********
  • Pavel Fomenkov
  • Posts: 4568
  • Location: Saint Petersburg
  • Registered: April 2016
Re: Martin acoustic
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2018, 10:31:16 PM »
http://www.highlanderpickups.com

Try these, they're gorgeous. Mark uses them in Nationals, but it will work on acoustics, too. Just a different type of a pickup.

Offlineprimi

  • Camerado
  • ***
  • Posts: 131
  • Registered: April 2012
Re: Martin acoustic
« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2018, 11:33:22 PM »
I also found this

http://www.guitarsite.com/best-acoustic-guitar-pickup/

informative. But most of these solutions are visible so who knows what he's using. I've been looking into acoustic guitars lately but none of those piezo pickups that come preinstalled in electro-acoustics are very convincing to me.

It won't be an expensive guitar so going crazy with some after market pickup most likely doesn't make a lot of sense. But it will still have to be something that I like. Lots of manufacturers are indeed using Fishman pickups of some sort.

OfflineIngo

  • Camerado
  • ***
  • Posts: 239
  • Registered: August 2008
Re: Martin acoustic
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2018, 03:36:31 PM »
I think Guy once mentioned L.R. Baggs for the Martins, many years ago. Not sure if this is still true.
my Mark Knopfler guitar style website:
http://www.mk-guitar.com/

 

© 2024 amarkintime.org
This is an unofficial website dedicated to Mark Knopfler developed and maintained by fans.
Top banner design by Dutchessy.
This theme is based on the SMF theme Carbonate by Bloc.
SMF 2.0.15 | SMF © 2017, Simple Machines
Simple Audio Video Embedder
Simple Audio Video Embedder
Page created in 0.046 seconds with 39 queries.