L.R. Baggs Banjo Pickup
Banjo Pickup Leveraging the unitary design that made their Violin Pickup a staple for thousands of performing musicians, L. R. Bags has molded their same miniature vibration sensor directly into a 5/8 in. banjo bridge. As an integral part of the bridge, the pickup captures inherent characteristics of the instrument fluently at the source without altering any acoustic properties. It comes with a fully custom jack and mounting system engineered to be reliable, easy to install and aesthetically compatible with the finest instruments.
Product Features
- 5/8″ maple bridge with pickup Unitary design for maximum sensitivity and signal transfer Custom jack and mounting system Installs in minutes
- LR Bags has molded their same miniature vibration sensor directly into a 5/8″ banjo bridge
- As an integral part of the bridge, the pickup captures inherent characteristics of the instrument fluently at the source without altering any acoustic properties
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The mounting hardware is not compatible with a deering open back banjo. The skin adjusters are too widely spaced for the bracket they give you. I did manage to finagle it on with the zip ties they provide but that’s a bit too redneck even for a banjo. The sound? Well it’s a passive transducer glued to a Grover bridge. With an EQ pedal or a preamp it sounds ok but without it’s pretty much dead. LR Bragg’s missed the mark as far as I’m concerned. I’ll keep it on so I can play live. Basically…