Bigtone pickup

campfire

Jared,

Really nice looking guitars!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow!!! Hope I get a chance to play one, someday! Good luck with the bigtone p.u.

Larry

marcdaine

Does anyone know-can a stock Bigtone pickup-either super or basic- be used on a lefty guitar? Is there any problem with how it's compensated- and if so could a decent guitat tech fix it?

Steveareno

It they're wired to a jack on the endpin, don't they need a hole drilled in the top, under the bridge for the wire?
Swang on,

pe1er

I have a bigtone, guessing dupont-one, that came installed on my ALD guitar.

Yesterday however the was a glitch and sometimes distortion coming from the speaker.. Tried changing cables and such. But then I noticed that when shaking the guitar I hear the cable from the pickup hitting the inside of the guitar. I'm guessing that's where it come from..

Question : is there somehow to attach the cable or is it just suppose hang loose like that?

Best regards Peter

cbwim

I have a BigTone in my Park Guitar and its great. Shelley installed it when she built the guitar. I compared the sound with the Stimer 51 and I prefer the BigTone. More even in the scale, better gain, and good sounding tone true to the sound of the guitar without the pickup. I ended up selling the Stimer.

Buco

@pe1er Peter I doubt that the cable inside your guitar is the issue. More likely the jack as long as you're positive everything else is good, cable to the amp, the amp...

spatzo

I have a Bigtone on my Favino and I played with it saturday in an outside gig on a small Fender valve amp (Pro Junior) with an excellent violinist and with another fine guitarist and a solid double bass player.

The result was absolutely ugly... I mean it was impossible to have a decent sound on that Fender. The volume had so to be kept between 1 and 2 (on 10) and even so the sound was going from nothing to a real exageration. The tone regulation had to be regulated between 8 and 10 but the result was always very very agressive and dirty.

Fortunately the double bass player had two imputs and a better tone regulation (bass, middle and treble) but however even so it was trully harsh...The other musicians could easily have killed me for this in their own right.

I am afraid I found no other solution than to switch on the Stimer but doing so the sound is of course very different (but finally pure and regulable).

Today I found no good (and easy) solution to play amplified with an acoustic sound, however, for sure, I will NEVER NEVER use that Bigtone again...

The internal cable hits the harmonic table also on mine but creates no further disturb but believe me the result was so messy, glassy and unforgettable that it had probably only a small influence on the disgusting sound