The Pure Macaferri is a twin-head piezo transducer for internal installation in Macaferri guitars. This pickup sounds very natural and is, in our opinion, the most true-sounding solution to amplify a Macaferri guitars on the market today.
How is the Pure Macaferri installed?
This pickup is installed inside the guitar underneath the outer edges of the mustaches. On special request, we can combine this pickup with an internal guitar microphone for a Macaferri Trinity System (please call if interested).
The Pure Macaferri is designed to be permanently affixed with superglue. The installer needs to be able to fit his/her hand into the soundhole to reach the area underneath the outer edge of the mustaches. This can be quite difficult if the soundhole is small. However, I was able to get my hand into the small soundhole of the guitar shown below. Once I got my hand through the hole, it was actually not too difficult to glue the pickups to the desired spots.
The endpin-jack can be easily mounted from the outside so no soldering is necessary.
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Edit: I have the pickup only, not the trinity system.
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Nice acoustic sound, not too piezo sounding at least to my ear, got pretty loud before feedback (although friend I was with claimed that wouldn't be loud enough for a loud bar) and one thing I loved but has nothing to do with guitar sound is you get this wonderful percussive sound by tapping your finger on a body of guitar.
Maybe biggest plus for this pick up is breeze of install and no modifications to your guitar whatsoever. This was borrowed pickup I wanted to try out but I think this is what I'll be getting when I start performing.
As for installation, it was not difficult to get my hand inside the sound hole, and my only nervous moment was having to drill the large end-pin jack hole. It turned out fine. The two piezo discs are glued in under each mustache, and I positioned the mic about where an Audio-Technica clip-on mic would be positioned if clipped inside the sound hole (because I like the sound I get with my A-T clip-on too).
I installed the Pure Maccaferri piezo without the mic a while back in my Gitane DG-320, and while it sounds fine on its own at low volume, I like to blend that with the Audio-Technica clip-on mic for a more natural sound.
Big Tones and Schattens have never sounded good to me, and the A-T mics are great (for low-volume gigs) but not as full as the blend of the piezo and internal mic. So, the K&K Pure Maccaferri-Trinity system is stellar in my opinion, and you don't have two cables hanging off your guitar while playing.
I noticed too that on the cd of the Rosenberg Trio (Live at Samois), Eimers's website gives details about Stochelo's set-up on the guitar he used. It was a blend of internal mic and piezo using what looks like a K&K Trinity pre-amp. Check Eimer's site out and the K&K site out and see if you don't agree.
Hope this helps.
-Stefan
I've also used their simple stick on "Big-Shot" piezo disc with a nylon string classical and with my Gitane DG-320 (before I did the internal installation), and in a more limited way, low volume, stuck just below the treble mustache, that sounds good too and is very inexpensive.
Anyway . . . .
-Stefan
This concept is like the LR Baggs I-Beam which is more for regular acoustics. They sound great also.
I could not find the entire system at the site... the glue on piezo and the Trinity mic. Do you have to piece it together and if so which components? Also do you place a preamp in line or run straight into the amp you use?
Thanks.
"On special request, we can combine this pickup with an internal guitar microphone for a Macaferri Trinity System (please call if interested)."
Or you can just e-mail them like I did.
-Stefan
-Stefan
To answer your question I do use it in conjunction sometimes with the at831b mic and yes it's a good combination. Sounds awesome together. I run the combo through a Schertler. Otherwise the mic by itself through a PA is super.
Live life and play music like it's your last day on earth. One day you'll be right- Russel Malone