Fishman Resophonic Guitar Pickup

Fishman Active Resophonic Guitar Pick-Up for biscuit style bridge only.
Active pre-amp - 9V battery - 11,000 hrs battery life
No EQ

Ozark metal bodied square neck - national style biscuit bridge.
First pickup fitted to the guitar.

Fitting peocedure not too complicated.
Remove cone and then biscuit, glue pick-up disc to underside of the biscuit lining up all transducers with the bridge (1 transducer per string).
Drill a small hole in the cone below the biscuit just large enough to feed the pickup wire through.
Drill a hol in the body to fit the jack socket/pre-amp.
Two solder joints (pickup to preamp) then re-assemble guitar.
Takes approx. 1 hour.
Instructions provided are excellent.

This pick-up sounds great.
It captures the sound of the resophinc really well and seems to have a pretty high output.
The tone is well ballanced and allows for a pretty wide scope in terms of EQ-ing.
I play bluegrass, folk, country and blues and this pick-up can tick the boxes so to speak.
I have gigged it several times now with no problems, but the great thing is takning it to jams - just plugs in and goes.

I'd reccomend this pick-up to anyone.
It sounds great, has a high output and a good versatile tone.

Passive

Gibson Hound Dog Dobro (round neck). The pickup comes stock. The pickup tension can be adjusted with a screw to get the best vlume level (great job Gibson)

This is a passive pickup. I don't understand some of the reviews here. When you get a passive pickup, you need a preamp, the the volume will be low. If installed properly, there should not be any problem of BAD sound. I use a Fishmann GII preamp. This preamp had an input level trim, so you can boost the volume of the passive pickup, and there you go, it works like any active pickup.

I paly blues dobro, and of course a microphone is better, but dealing with the hassle of a microphone (live condeser or ribbon mic) is always problematic. So a pickup is fine.

A great pickup, and well, i think it's the best you can get for resonator.

Been playing for 20 years, I like the pickup because I can play standing and move around. Sometime I use a microphone, but when I do that is for quieter GIGs where I can sit. I happy with it.

Fishman active.

I put it in a National Style O. What the hell was I thinking. Buy a $2400 guitar and put this pickup in it and expect it to do miracles. NOT... Used it for six months or more. Gone...

Output: was good. I used it in a small Fender tube amp, Roland acoustic 60 amp. Tone: Overall OK, not fantastic. Sound is close to the unplugged guitar until you crank it.
Very trebly. Put some sticky putty between it and the cone and it helped a lot. And got a Boss EQ pedal to give it some sort of tone. BUT here comes the rub. It picks up a lot of rattley, trebly slide noise. Even with a glass slide. Even if dampinging like hell. Very annoying. So replaced it with a Highlander and end of story. I can play sloppy again. I put it in a less expensive National (If there is such a thing) for now. Not fit for it even, but the Highlander came out of it.

If you must amp an inexpensive reso it will get by may as well get an EQ of some sort. If you are spending the bucks for a nice resonator then don't chince on a pickup. Take a deep breath and get the Highlander. It wont get lost. I'll just give it away.

Pickup features: Passive pickup
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: Scheerhorn L-Body Curly Maple Resonator Guitar
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: McIntyre
Other pickups on guitar:
Artists using this pickup: Jerry Douglas
You musical style(s): Bluegrass and associated acoustic roots music
Reason for pickup change: McIntyre pickup had good tone, but picked up noise from my right hand fingerpicks and did not get enough strength of signal for my liking

Perceived output level: Resonator guitars are extremely difficult to amplify. Big difference between plugged in sound and using a microphone; this is the most pleasing sounding pickup I have used since I started playing squareneck resophonic guitar (a.k.a. Dobro)
Tone: This pickup works great, but absolutely requires e.q. to sound good. Way too much high-end treble without e.q.
Sonic evaluation: I have this pickup in 2 different guitars-Scheerhorn L=Body curly maple and Mahogany/Spruce R-Body. I run the pickup into a Baggs Para-Acoutic D.I. and run the effects loop from the Baggs into a Raven Labs True Blue E.Q. From there I run into an A.E.R. Acousticube (which is the best plugged in sound I have ever heard out of any equipment!) or into a Boss DD-3 Digital Delay and into my P.A. system.
I used to run out of the Baggs directly into whatever P.A. system where I was playing but the pickup always had too much treble to me..the Raven Labs really makes a huge difference in tone control

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Wide variety of acoustic roots music-bluegrasss, blues, folk, etc

Comments: My current rig gives me the best tone I have ever had in my 15 years of playing various resophonic guitars. I feel strongly this (and any other) pickup needs some kind of signal processing to add warmth and color. I am completely satisfied with the sound I get out of the A.E.R Acousticube; I can play in a band situation with a drummer, bass, keys and other guitars and cut throught just fine.
Resonator guitar has got to be one of the most challenging instruments to amplify. My rig sounds even better when I add a microphone (I use a Shure KSM-32) to the mix-the microphone adds a more natural sound; the pickup run through the A.E.R. gives me the spaciousness that I like, especially when I am playing behind a singer and/or rock/blues music. I normally use just the microphone when I play bluegrass.
I was told (and believe) that it is best to have this pickup professionally installed. The installation and the tension of the screw on the pickup has a critcal influence on its sound. Besides, unless you know what you are doing it is easy to screw up the re-assembly of your resonator guitar and be prone to buzzing, etc.