Fishman PowerTap Earth - Body Sensor with Soundhole Pickup Black

Fishman PowerTap Earth - Body Sensor with Soundhole Pickup Black

Name: Fishman PowerTap Earth - Body Sensor with Soundhole Pickup Black
Brand: Fishman
SKU: 1500000319204
Price: 349.95 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)

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The Fishman PowerTap Earth pickup system combines the easy installation, superior performance and warm, transparent sound of Fishman's Rare Earth Humbucker, with a totally new soundboard body sensor. The result is a new world of percussive performance elements and tactile dynamics for guitarists of all styles — and a worthy addition to the new Fishman Acoustic PowerTap series.

With the addition of Tap pickup technology, players can add new performance dynamics of Touch, Ambience and Percussion. The easily adjustable Blend control mixes the Rare Earth and Tap signals in mono, or you can run both signals into separate channels using a stereo cable. This feature allows players to add separate effects, level control, and EQ to each pickup independently to create a striking soundscape of tones from a single instrument.

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Very good but a small mod was needed
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submitted5 months ago
byHans
fromMonterey, CA
This pickup produced good amplified tones with my Seagull acoustic and I was quite satisfied with it. One limitation that it has is that there is no way to fine-tune the sound hole humbucker pickup for the heights of the individual strings. This might have been an intentional design choice for simplicity and aesthetics, but this can cause the 1st and 2nd strings (your treble strings) to be noticeably louder since the action of a steel-string acoustic is lower as you go from the bass side to the treble side. It's not possible to compensate for this volume imbalance with typical amp controls like TONE or LOW/MID/HIGH. Even an equalizer doesn't work that well. The solution is to shim the BASS side of the sound hole pickup to make it come closer to the strings. You will want to raise it enough so that the surface of the pickup is the same distance to the bottom of the 6th string as is the 1st string. You can use mini cork dots for this purpose and lightly sand the cork dot surface to get the optimal shim height. There are other sound hole pickups that can be adjusted for the individual strings but I haven't yet seen one that is paired with a tap body sensor. I hope this review was helpful.

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