I’m looking for a better pick up sound (aren’t we all) and I have an old underwood, a realist, and a lifeline. Mostly I’ve been using the lifeline, but it really gets lost in the mix with a drummer. It’s like there’s a brick wall for upper mid frequencies. The realist is a little better in terms of hearing attack, but also a little boomier. For both I really need to use a HPF, which helps quite a bit but ends up weakening the clarity of the E string.

When I use the underwood, it’s almost...

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