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Well, I think it's a Framus at least - possibly a Höfner. All labels are long gone and I've never seen one exactly like it, so I can't be really sure.A guitar workshop got it in for repair but the owner never turned up to claim it, so in the end they just sold it for the repair costs. I couldn't beliee my luck!!! No matter what brand it is, this is a great good old-fashioned archtop guitar and I got it for almost nothing!
Pickup alternativesMaybe I should try a Fishman bridge with built in pickup? I'd rather not buy one of those without testing it first since to be honest I'm less than impressed about the Fishman pickups I know (the standard guitar transducer and the weird banjo pickup), but this is one I'm gonna get absolutely right or die trying!
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I really didn't expect much, but actually this combination turned out quite well. I couldn't get enough treble no matter how I tried though.
I really had expected K&K to perform better than Sound Checker on this guitar, but it didn't. Then again it wasn't that bad and K&K does have a special archtop guitar model. Maybe that'll be the one?
The Sound Checker family in perfect harmony. The ACCU_STIC povides some extra top and openness to its piezo electric brother's solid body of sound. This looks extremely promising, but I haven't tried it live yet. There are a number of serious potential pitfalls!
This didn't work at all. No matter what I tried, the results was worse than each pickup on its own. Must be that dreaded comb filter effect they've been talking about.