Looking for a good sound hole Pickup

[koneguitarist]

Whats best acoustic pickup under £100 sound hole preferrably.
Seymour Duncan/Shadow/Fishman neo/Dimarzio etc etc
looking for a pickup mainly strumming on a Dreadnought style.

[ICBM]

For under a hundred, the best option is probably the LR Baggs M1 passive. If you can't find one the next best would probably be the Seymour Duncan Woody (humbucking model), although I have one of those and it's not that great.

[koneguitarist]

I bought the Seymour Duncan HB pickup today, before your reply.
For the price its not bad, Good for slide tone, and should be fine for strumming when I set guitar up in next few days.
Cheers,
Taff

[koneguitarist]

Up for sale already !
Not realy using acoustic enough to warrant it. impulse buy

[Misty]

It's a bit more money, but I had the Fishman Rare Earth and it's an excellent pickup. Mine was the humbucker version, but the single coil one is a bit cheaper and might sound even nicer, though obviously you'd probably get a bit more noise. If I was in the market for a soundhole pickup that's what I'd buy. You can find them secondhand on eBay from time to time.

[ICBM]

I went off the Rare Earth a bit when I came across the second dead and unrepairable one (miniature surface-mount component failure on the PCB)... it's not common but that's two more than any other soundhole pickup I know of.

I think the Baggs sounds better too - but the Fishman looks nicer, if that matters.

[Misty]

I went off the Rare Earth a bit when I came across the second dead and unrepairable one (miniature surface-mount component failure on the PCB)... it's not common but that's two more than any other soundhole pickup I know of.

Ah....I didn't know about that, but I still thought mine sounded good, and so did the guy I sold it to.