Buy Fishman Classic Series M-200 Professional Mandolin PickupFishman Classic Series M-200 Professional Mandolin Pickup Product Description:
- Features a piezo-ceramic pickup element embedded in an adjustable ebony replacement bridge
- Designed for all archtop-style mandolins
- An impedance matching preamp is recommended, but not required
- Professional installation recommended
Product Description
Classic Series M-200 Professional Mandolin Pickup. The same as the M-100, but includes a Carpenter style 1/4” output jack that mounts on the side of the instrument.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Sounds awful as is, but it's the best pickup you can buy
By Joshua Skaja
If you plan to just run this direct into a mixer or acoustic amp, it is going to sound terrible and un-mandolin-like. In our jolly band of multi-instrumentalists, we've been using the (100x better-sounding) LR Baggs Radius on the mandolin, but having heaps of difficulty with getting enough volume before feedback. I mean it's comical how much trouble that Radius has given us. It's a great sounding pickup, but completely useless unless you're playing in a listening room, and at that point you could just use a microphone.So we bought the M-200, and plugged direct it sounds flat out bad. Mind you, this is an absolutely sick mandolin (Jade) -> Yamaha 01V mixer -> Bose L1s and run by one of the best sound men I've ever met. With a pile of EQ, there was some usable tone that might satisfy ordinary people, but it didn't really sound like a mandolin sounds.BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUTIf you run this pickup into one of Fishman's Aura pedals (we have two of the 1st generation) on its way to the board, you get the best of all possible worlds: a tone that sounds very much like a mandolin, with enough volume to rip over any loud electric band. I cannot explain to you how much this improves our entire show.So pickup on its own: 1.5 stars. Pickup into Aura into PA: 17.284 starsBuy this pickup, and then buy this thing, it rocks:Fishman Aura Spectrum D.I.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
This is the one you want!
By Carmine T. Guida
After not playing mandolin for years, I decided to go out and get a pickup and a set of new strings.The top of the pickup fit perfectly onto my existing bridge. Only downside was I had to notch the holes for the strings myself, but I did it with an exacto knife and it worked out fine.It sounds BEAUTIFUL I can not wait to gig with this new pickup!Bonus: No need to do anything permanent to your mandolin. No sticky mess!Tip: I am using a Boss EQ-7 pedal and dropping anything below 200hz down to 0. It gets rid of the thumping from your pick. That and a nice reverb pedal and you got a great setup.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.Amazzzzzing
By S. Blaweiss
This is a great pickup - the sound is awesome, and it sounds even better if you connect it to an EQ with the 75 cut out - that takes out the low thumping picking sound. The best pickup I've ever usedOnly one problem - the input jack is a bit of a pain to install, but its not too back, considering all the other great things!
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