![]() ![]() Luckily there’s a nice resistance in the action of the knob, so you won’t have to worry about knocking the knob and changing the volume. The volume control is very nice, though it does seem to have a logarithmic taper to it, so little movements of the knob at the upper end of the volume sweep make huge changes in the volume. Look, it’s not going to be nearly as good as miking the guitar, but then to really capture the sound of an acoustic instrument, you have to have a hell of a good microphone, or use a couple of them. The pickup is incredibly sensitive and as I mentioned above, manages to pick up even subtle harmonics. Now, as far as sound is concerned, I couldn’t be happier. The KNA folks really got this right! How It Sounds Plus, you’ll notice that the jack elevates the cord above the soundboard, so there’s no worry of it contacting the soundboard and vibrating while playing. You can see that in the picture of my guitar. But I got nervous about the adhesive eventually ruining my guitar’s finish so I had it installed permanently.īut with NG-2, because it sits on the tie-down bar, the cord is completely out of the way. I had my Seymour Duncan installed that way and used painters tape to secure the wire to the body of my guitar. But having a wire coming out of the soundhole is a bit annoying as it gets in the way. I even have one installed in my Gibson J-45. Technically, I could’ve gone the soundhole pickup route. Being thorough, I surfed over to the KNA Pickups site, and saw that they had an updated version of the pickup, the NG-2, that had a volume control! But the best thing about it was that it only cost $99.00! That was far less than other solutions. Still, my only nit about it was that it didn’t have a volume control. And the sound quality in the reviews of that first version of the pickup was fantastic! It was literally a flat, wooden stick that slid under the string loops on the tie-down bar. And unlike under-the-saddle piezo pickups, didn’t require sticking contacts inside the guitar. The big selling point of that pickup was that it didn’t require any modifications to be made to the guitar. That didn’t leave me with many options other than soundhole pickups.īut fortunately, I ran across a review someone did on the Kremona (now KNA Pickups) NG-1 pickup a few years back. One requirement that I had for a pickup was that I wanted to get one that didn’t require drilling a hole at the butt of the guitar to install a jack. In the meantime, I started researching classical guitar pickups. ![]() But rather than work on the guitar myself, I took it into Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto, CA to have it set up and strung. It had a couple of strings missing but was in otherwise great condition. I had only looked at it once or twice since I got it. I’m a bit ashamed to say that I while I fixed up and played the acoustic and electric guitars, I didn’t touch the classical guitar until a few weeks ago when I had an idea for a new song whose solo would be great using a classical guitar. Her mom wanted to give the guitars to the Salvation Army, but my friend suggested that they give the guitars to someone who’ll play them. ![]() ![]() The guitars sat in her storage shed for 15 years, forgotten until she and her mom cleaned it out. This was part of a three-guitar set she gave me that belonged to her late uncle who passed away in 2003. To the left is my vintage 1972 Hiroshi Tamura classical guitar that I received as a gift from a friend a few years ago. ![]()
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