Takamine TRI-AX 2

Firstly i'm no expert, however i know what i wanted and the Takamine TRI-AX gave it to me!... I wanted a sound hole pickup that i could just bung in the guitar, remove if i wanted to and would allow me to just plug in and play....but....most importantly, gave a natural acoustic guitar sound, and thats what its does. Out of the box with no adjustment its sounds better that i thought it would, natural! Active/passive switch difficult to get to (located on base of unit) but not a major problem. Build quality seems ok. Mine is installed in a Yamaha LL11 and i'm very pleased with it.

A good acoustic pick up, with nice balanced result (even if I can't compare with other product, at least in my recording it works really well). Only issue would be to access the on/off button inside the guitar hole, really difficult... But with volume to zero, the battery seems to be fine over time...

enriches the sound enormously when plugged into the cool tube pre-amp as an additional input, and mixed with the piezo pickup. only downside: the soundboard of the guitar becomes microphonic when the volume is turned up, so any slaps or taps in your playing style get overamplified...