K&K Pure Mini
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
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Welcome to this demo and review of this awesome, no frills bridge plate transducer pickup for steel string acoustic guitars. What do you think?
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Very nice video. I do not use one of these pickups, but I knew about it before thanks to Tony Polecastro. Could a pickup like this be installed in my Martin D 45 12-string?
They do make a 12 string version, I’ve had that too - I’m actually not sure if it’s different than this one, but one way or another they have something g
@@JackFossett Okay. The pickups I have in acoustics are either LR Baggs or Trans Auto Amulet.
Yes, yes, and again yes. The K&K mini is the best of the best in acoustic amplification. I have one in my Gibson Advanced Jumbo and it is blissful. It gives the authentic mic'd sound, not the electric boogaloo thing other pickups do to acoustics, robbing them of their tone. K&K or death for me. LOL...Another great review, Jack.
Thanks! Yup right on board with you. Good sound, easy to deal with, reliable. All good things.
Hi, very fine demo. I have installed the K&K Pure mini in my Epiphone EJ200, and it works extremely well, very natural sounding and no batteries needed!!
I put one of these in an Epiphone Masterbilt dreadnought last year and have been very pleased with the sound it produces.
Nice! Masterbilts are great guitars
Very natural sounding and out of
the way pup😎👍
Thanks 😎👍
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Love brother
Much appreciated!
I have K&K Pure Mini's in my 1969 D18, 1973 D35 and 2015 D15M. They are great into my acoustic amps as-is. If I am going into a venue PA or panel, I add-in the Pure Preamp into the loop. Great pickup.
what is a Pure Preamp ? thanks
@@SergeUnplugged K&K makes several preamps. The Pure preamp is made for their Pure Mini pickups. There also is a Pure XLR that has XLR plugs as well as 1/4 inch plugs. Just go to the K&K web site and you will see their preamps. What is really nice is that they are outboard preamps, so no battery in the guitar. For my Loudbox Artist and Roland AC60 amps, no preamps are needed. I only use them when I have to plug into a panel or PA system.
Thanks for doing this video, by the way...it's very helpful and I like the way you balance explaining things while also playing a lot.
I have one in my Huss & Dalton DRH, dread. I had one in an Alvarez Yairi dread I recently sold.
Thanks for a helpful review Jack,
Glad it was helpful!
Is this how the pickup sounds like just with flat eq? (Like no preamp adjustments)
I have two Yamaha acoustic guitars, one with K&K, the other with JJB. Both pickups look almost identical, but K&K has a hotter output.
I have K&K Trinity Pro Mini. I wish I had just gone with the K&K mini because the Trinity requires stereo cable and K&K preamp and I can barely turn the mic on before I get feedback. For a real sweetener that works with pretty much any acoustic pickup, check out the LR Baggs Voiceprint DI. I just recorded three different guitars with three different pickup systems (K&K Trinity, LR baggs Dual Source and LR Baggs Lyric) through it and they all sound fantastic.
Great news for any other Trinity Pro owners who wish they just had a Pure Mini instead. I just read on the Acoustic Forum that you can skip the stereo cable and the Trinity preamp and run a mono cable instead and presto! The mono plug cuts out the mic leaving you with a Pure Mini system. I just tested that out and it works. I had been thinking I would need to remove the Trinity before I could install a Pure Mini but that suggestion saved me a bunch of work, a potentially destroyed Trinity system and $109. So to answer your original question, yes, as of ten minutes ago, I am using the K&K Pure Mini.
K&K Pure Minis in 2 (soon 3) Furch acoustics. I had a revelation regarding removal of the obstructive under-saddle piezo transducer...respectful of the immediate contact of saddle to bridge. The K&K signal range is deep & wide, allowing (necessitating?) considerable EQ sculpting (esp. lows). After years of piezo transparency (i.e. brittle quack?) it has taken time getting used to a somewhat softer, mellower signal...albeit more natural, organic acoustic tone!
Brittle quack may be the best description of Piezo tone that I’ve ever heard
Awesome video.
Thanks!
@@JackFossett I might get one of these for one of my guitars.
How does the K & K compare to the Taylor ES2? I have a 324ce with that pickup, which seems pretty good, but I don't have much other experience. Also thinking of getting the Epi Inspired by Gibson Hummingbird and a small, parlor-style guitar too, so I've been looking into what to put into those. I don't hear anything good about the Fishman that comes in the Epi...
I find it a little boomy on my Martin d16 gt. I am trying a lr bands pre tomorrow to see if I can dial out some of the booom
hello sir. qq. would you recommend with percussive guitar players? TIA.
I agree that K&Ks piezo transducers are the most 'transparent' internal piezo system; way better than the sandwiched piezo strips that are usually found squashed under the bone or plastic bridge saddle, and then routed through a rectangular plastic preamp which is mounted into the upper side of your guitar, usually running off a 9 volt battery. Those piezo strips are well-known for their 'quackiness' in tone; whereas the K&Ks are not under all the pressure of the strings on a piece of plastic/bone, and are usually glued (or double side taped) to the inside wooden bridgeplate of your acoustic guitar, near where the string pins go through, and as close as possible to beneath where the saddle would be if it were cut right through the top. They usually have three sensors (Sometimes 2 or 4 piezo discs) that are evenly spaced over the saddle area beneath the bridgeplate, and lately include a template system for ensuring that your spacing and positioning is accurate. (You don't want to have one of your strings' ball ends accidentally touching one of the brass/plastic sensors, as that would give you very uneven results.
I agree that they are best used through some sort of preamp or an EQ pedal, in order to slightly boost the tone for input to a PA system or Acoustic Amp (the K&Ks are totally passive; they need no battery to yield a very useful, if somewhat flat, sound). I have heard that K&Ks, in certain installations, can yield an unfortunate kind of thump or clicking tone, especially when mounted onto a large bodied guitar (Dred or Jumbo) which, I am told, is caused by 'flexing' of the very thin piezo crystal material when the top of the guitar is deflected more than usual, such as during very hard strumming or aggressive tapping/thumping type playing. I mainly used them on smaller, parlor type guitars and also on 12 strings with larger, heftier bridgeplates, and I never experienced this phenomenon over at least a dozen or more of the three-sensor 'Pure Mini' type installation. I always used CA glue gel to install, usually with an accelerator/kicker spray, and would use a mirror and flashlight set-up to aid in proper placement of the discs.
Lately, I've built quite a few of my own of this style of piezo-disc rig, using raw piezo discs bought online, usually the smaller ones, around 10-12mm. After soldering the leads on, I apply a button sized dab of two-part epoxy putty to the backside of the disc (side with the soldering leads) as this both reenforces the thin leads and also gives a bit of heft or weight to the piezo disc, which makes it less likely to flex, and also seems to make it more 'directionally sensitive' to the vibration which you want it to pick up.
Hey everybody, do I need a K&K Pure Pre Amp as well as the Mini? (for my Martin D12-28)
which one do you prefer k&k or journey?? and i wanna know journey instrument pickup's impedance.
can it be able to use with joyo 6 band eq? joyo eq input impedance is only 500kohm.
He literally used that exact eq in this video.
Which Martin you got? Is it a D-18, I’ve got a D-16R really nice.
DM!
For playing in a tiny bar with a D18, kk mini or Anthem?
I’m K&K all the way on that one, but Anthems are great too.
Hi, now I am confused...I thought "under saddle" meant, sort of, a piezo strip. But the one in the link has 3 "buttons" and no strip.
Always enjoy your content.
I am looking for a pick up for a resonator.
Hey, you are correct, I mistyped that - the Pure Mini is a bridge plate pickup.