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DiMarzio DP138 Virtual Acoustic Soundhole Pickup

Magnetic Soundhole Acoustic-electric Guitar Pickup
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Natural-sounding Magnetic Acoustic Pickup

The DiMarzio Virtual Acoustic magnetic soundhole guitar pickup uses the same technology as the Virtual Vintage line to create a natural-sounding and noise-free acoustic guitar pickup. Sweetwater players love the compensated tone network built into the volume control for how it maintains your tone when adjusting the volume. And the DiMarzio Virtual Acoustic magnetic soundhole guitar pickup mounts easily in the soundhole of your acoustic. You can even trim the foam padding to customize the Virtual Acoustic for your acoustic guitar's soundhole.

DiMarzio Virtual Acoustic Magnetic Soundhole Guitar Pickup Features:
  • Natural-sounding magnetic acoustic pickup
  • Noiseless design eliminates 60-cycle hum
  • Mounts easily in your guitar's soundhole
  • Wiring: 1 Conductor
  • Magnet: Ceramic
  • DC Resistance: 6.02 Kohm
The Virtual Acoustic soundhole pickup is noise free and completely natural sounding.

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Tech Specs

  • Instrument: Acoustic Guitar
  • Type: Dual-coil Pickup
  • Position: Soundhole
  • Active/Passive: Passive
  • Built-in Preamp: No
  • Controls: Volume
  • Features: 10' TS Male 1/4" Cable
  • Manufacturer Part Number: DP138BK

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Rated 5/5

Easy and sounds great

This pic up cuts down on noise that you get with electrical lights and with it's built in volume control no need to cut up your guitar. Best sounding Pic up I have. Thank you Sweetwater.
Music background: Former studio musician guitarist
Rated 5/5

Product Detail : Di’Marzio Virtual Soundhole Pickup

First off it came delivered on time and packaged in a thicker plastic container that I found to be reusable , just snap back together . I like the instructions that I saved how to use this Pickup. When I set it into the Soundhole , as I am left handed or play left handed Acoustic/ Electric,plugged into three separate amps plus my JBL EON ONE , and the sound that I had from the late 1980's into early 90's .. Came to my ears , man I joyed that this Pickup is excellent designed with a robust upgrade to my playing .Also its adjustable for left handed and for myself the slider is inside the pickup and I have some volume control at the upper Soundhole as an added benefit.No line buzz ,just what I thought about , but went ahead and bought this amazing Di'Marzio Pickup.A Thank you note of appreciation for the invitation to review this recent purchase.
Music background: Around 1967-68 as a second grader learned from the Music Teacher a waltz “ If I ask you to sing , would you sing? The class would sing Yes I will . And 2nd Verse “ If I ask you to play , would you play? We sang “ yes I will “ if I ask you to play if I ask
Rated 5/5

Can be altered

I have a 93-year-old guitar with a smaller sound hole than today's standard. My "inside guy", Ed Nystrom, spent some time wrestling with the issue and found a note that this could be modified and cut down if needed. It arrived, and I was able to carefully cut (fine-blade hacksaw) the underside back just enough to fit. Now, the next question- with shaky histories on some older pickups would it work? While I've only just received it, I did plug it up to test and was very pleased with the performance. It picks up the strings very well with no background noises and I thought was very uniform in its spectrum... reproduced highs and lows with no difference from hearing the guitar acoustically. The instructions are precise that it won't work with nylon strings because of the function of the pickups. It does lie fairly close to the strings, might be more comfortable if it sat more inside the sound hole but it doesn't interfere. I haven't really tested with banjo picks and harder finger picking but it should be fine. Couldn't ask for more, especially considering the price. It's a win as far as I'm concerned.
Music background: Pretty much anything with strings since the 60's, plus drums.
Rated 5/5

Great External Guitar Pickup

I have been using this acoustic pickup for the last five years and it has been great. Yep I know their may be a better more expensive pickup out there but this has been reliable, sturdy and worth the money.
Music background: semi-professional
Rated 5/5

Really Good Choice for Laminate Topped Guitars

I picked up this DiMarzio soundhole pickup to reinforce a 1980s Yamaha 12-string with a laminated top. I needed to preserve the guitar's shimmer without adding an "ice-pick-through-the-eardrum" treble many single-coil pickups in this price range and most under-the-saddle piezos produce with 12-strings (and with guitars that have laminated tops.) These laminated tops tend to have no or ill-defined bass tonalities, so I wanted a pickup to beef up the low end while retaining the nice treble the guitar already had. This pickup fit the bill entirely! It has a nicely rounded bottom end that was not at all boomy in this 12-string. The top end is balanced. The on-board volume control is a very nice feature. The pickup has a little less overall output than one might expect from a typical electric guitar humbucker, but since it is built on a shallow frame, this makes perfect sense. The output, however, is just fine as it is! It will nicely go into the mixing board (a DI box or routing through an amp simulator/emulator is a good idea) and it drives the front end of a guitar amp (or acoustic guitar amp or keyboard amp) the same as something like a typical Strat pickup. It installs easily and is easily removed. We will probably, eventually, install it "semi-permanently" by adding an endpin jack and making an internal connection rather than having the cord hanging out of the sound hole. I highly recommend!
Music background: Player, Performer, Guitar Repair & Customization
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