Passive Piezo Acoustic Pickup – EP001K Three Balanced German-Made Passive Pickup Elements – Piezo Pickup for Acoustic Guitars (Ceramic)

Very pleased. Installed in my Zager that already has an Aura Pro preamp system. I was burning through 9 volts on that system. Now I am bypassing the Aura. So for $50 it will pay for itself! I'm running it through an LR Baggs sessions DI box because I already had that in my bag of tricks and it gives me more gain control. Now my wife wants one in her guitar too!

I have this pickup installed in 2 of my guitars. I am very happy with the sound and performance. Before installing this pickup, I thought the lack of a factory-installed pickup in an acoustic guitar was a strike against the guitar. Now I think the opposite. Factory-installed pickups are sometimes junk. With this one, you don't have to uninstall anything before installing this one.

Won't know what they sound like or if they even work, I have a couple broken bridge pins, new ones coming tomorrow. This review is all about the installation and issues I experienced. Not too hard but not as easy and smooth as the video makes it seem. Was super careful and dry fitted the piezos not once but twice. The first 2 glued in place fine. The 3rd one felt good with the guide sticks and glued up, only to find that it blocked one bridge pin hole so I had to push a drill bit thru the hole to break it off and reposition it. Keep in mind you're doing this totally by braille, even with the hole guide sticks that come in the kit, you have to go by feel and cross your fingers. The other problem is I had to unscrew the inside jack cover almost all the way back for the whole jack to stick out of the back of the guitar far enough per instructions. Only maybe 3 rings of thread left on the inside end of the jack for the cover to grip. The actual problem is that the piezo mini plug is too big to go into the end of the jack cover to connect to the plug. The cover is aluminum so I drilled the end opening larger for the mini plug to fit thru. One other thing to note, the plug is bent a little at an angle making it even more difficult to connect. I didn't want to try to straighten it out and possibly break it. They maybe should state these issues in their instructions, or make these to fit for different models like my Epiphone Hummingbird. Now I just hope they work or back to Amazon they go. 3/27/23 UPDATE, after all that, they work perfectly and sound great! The issues I encountered weren't all that hard to overcome if you're handy and somewhat mechanically inclined. The misplacement of one of the piezos was my fault, I got it right the 2nd time. I'm changing my review to 4 stars, you just need to look out for a few things that I encountered when you go to install them in your guitar. These pickups are a great deal!

Excellent design and function. Needs no battery! Tricky installation, but worth it.

Easy installation. Sounds warm. I put this in an Oud which has nylon strings and wire wound over nylon strings. The only thing is the template won't work to find the the locations. I used the gummy substance that came with the kit and I am able to move any one of the pickups until I get the sound I want. You can use the glue when you find the best locations if you want.

I had it professionally installed so I can't speak to ease of installation. It uses super glue to install so it is permanent, according to the installer. It works well. Good quality thus far.

Great pick up!! I put in my open back Banjolele worked fine!!

I installed these pickups on a beat up Taylor Baby that I converted to a slide guitar I was trying to keep the costs low on. I was blown away by the sound of the guitar. I don’t have a reference point with K&K’s, but these are excellent pickups especially for the cost.I can’t speak to the installation as I had it done professionally, I am pretty clumsy with this type of thing and didn’t want to risk it.