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Your cart is empty.ARTEC products is wide open and allows you to tailor the system to your needs. ARTEC will help your ideal guitar sounds come true without paying too much money or changing your guitar! MSP 50 is a single coil passive sound hole magnetic pickup that enhances realism and smoothness in your guitar sound. It's slim design can avoid the sound hole obstruction that other sound hole pickup used to. You will not even realize that MSP 50 is sitting on your guitar until you hear the natural acoustic sounds coming out from your guitars. MSP 50 has been designed brilliantly to keep the miscellaneous parts all together. Mounting clamps are permanently attached to the main body with foam rubber covered slots to prevent damage to your guitars. MSP 50 features adjusted pole pieces and unique design of magnetic bar inside for precise string to string balance.
paul
Reviewed in Australia on July 1, 2023
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Customer
Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2023
Quality item
Dean 2
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2023
Surprisingly good for the money. Clear and no hum. It lacks low end but I run it through a preamp.
Mitchell Warner III
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2022
Will not fit a 3.5in sound hole.
Tecüan
Reviewed in Mexico on December 1, 2022
Me funcionó muy bien para un bajo quinto.
Cameron Menzies
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2022
it works, but it sounds very very empty and doesn’t pick up any acoustic tone
John W
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 29, 2021
After trying three different active and passive budget pickups for my mid-range acoustic, and being totally frustrated at the poor quality, I decided to give this one a go - and it is **fab**.It is easy to install, and the pickup in the soundhole causes me no problems (I play fingerstyle).It produces a good clean acoustic sound from the start, and I can adjust the individual poles to fine tune that sound (hint - top string might be too bright and need toning down a little).I was a bit concerned for the potential for noise from the single coil, but on my amp's clean setting there is none. If I use the amp's overdrive setting, I can hear some buzz that is typical of single coil but I've definitely heard worse from some very expensive guitars. I think there is a humbucker version available if that is a problem.Basically, this is the quality budget pickup I was looking for - fantastic for the price.
Miss V
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2021
Better than I expected for the price and easy to install. Setting the EQ half way up, the bass was full and the treble bright. Now if they could only put easier fitting strap buttons on these types of input jacks, I would be in bliss.
Bassman
Reviewed in Canada on February 23, 2019
Brilliant for the price and it sounds awesome!!,
Skeezix
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2019
Was very pleased with the tone and output of this pickup. Installed it in my Epiphone AJ-220S and was pleasantly surprised to find that all of the strings aligned almost perfectly with the respective pickup pole pieces. The pickup is flat black in color and small in profile so it doesn't look too noticeable when installed. The tone is very nice. I plugged it directly into an Ibanez IBZ-10A solid state amp and a Fender Super Champ XD tube amp. The pickup still maintained that "acoustic" tone one desires. Please note that there are no installation instructions that accompany the package. You will have to remove the tail strap button from your guitar and drill a 1/2" hole for the output jack (or drill a hole through the lower bout if you prefer that location). Make sure you use a proper drill bit to avoid damage to your guitar. I used a Dewalt 1/2" Steel Brad Point Drill Bit and protected the hole area with masking tape to avoid chipping the finish. Installing the output jack was by trial and error as to the setting of the jam nuts for proper protrusion of the jack through the body. I used a TV Jones tapered dowel (a must!) to locate and position the jack as my arm is too large to fit through the sound hole. The jack has 2 exterior nuts: a hex nut for installing the jack though the side of the body, and a round nut that serves as a strap button. You use one or the other depending on the installation you choose. They cannot be used together. Make sure that the jack protrudes enough so that your guitar cord pin will snap in place. There are 2 metal plates with double stick tape used to secure the cord in the body so it doesn't flop around. The plates are soft metal and you bend the end over to hold the cord in place.
Bill S.
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2017
Pickup worked as advertised. I had installed the same type of pickup in my tenor guitar. This one was for my Baby Taylor. Both had smaller soundholes, so slight modification to the pickup was necessary. Installation went fine and the pickup works well.
BJR
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2016
Adjustable pole pieces are a real plus compared to other products of this kind. This is a single coil pickup, so there is some noise, but it seems to be well shielded, so the noise is isn't noticeable at performance volumes.
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