Thank you for this video. I had replaced a broken bridge saddle on my Fender Acoustic and it was too tight and uneven resulting in a tinny treble sound and occasional loud bursts when strumming hard. I evened out the bottom of the saddle like you suggested and made it a bit thinner so it would "slide" into place and it now sounds much better. I am glad you took the time to teach how to install this properly.
What about grounding issues?, on my guitar there's a loud 60Hz hum that I can't get rid of, only by touching the end of the cable jack it disappear but when I touch the strings it's still there, Is there a way to ground properly electroacoustic guitars? Mine is not cheap, it's a Martin DC1E with a Fishman Presys+ preamp
Dude, thank you! I have been playing guitar for 50 years and I've never had this kind of problem. I just bought a Martin with this pickup. It was perfect when I got it home. I quickly changed the strings, played it for awhile unplugged to break the strings in, all good. Got to my gig, plugged in to the PA and the higher strings had no volume at all. Came home from my gig, watched this video and all better. I was ready to give the guitar back to the dealer.
I didn’t think i did anything because everything was flat and there was no discernible dust or anything but it works now, like magic. I greatly appreciate it
Some angels work repairing acoustic guitars, thank you so much! I bought a used martin and the volume was very low, didnt notice the saddle was placed wrong.
Thanks brother. Your insight and knowledge saves us common folk a lot of money and time. Most of these music stores are gouging us and there is always a long wait list to get a repair.
Thank you very much… Excellent video… I love the tip about putting the capo on the first fret… everything you said worked perfectly fixed up my pick up pretty darn good thanks to you man! Well done!
THANK YOU! My saddle had gradually shifted so only the top couple strings were sounding. When tapping on the saddle only those areas made any sound. Loosened the strings a ways, pushed the saddle back, it clicked into place, voila. Took all of 5 minutes!
This is pretty much spot on. The Fishman under-saddle pickup was not something I was familiar with till I picked up a Martin Jr 10E recently. It is very sensitive to the contact of the saddle. The saddle must fit in easily … I had to sand a little of a Tusq which was too tight a fit. The surface of the underneath of the saddle must be perfectly flat too.
Recently I had a problem with my Yamaha APX series original pick up. Strings 1, 2 and 3 sound so thin while the other half of the strings sound louder. I found your video here very useful, thank you for sharing
I want to let you that this was such a helpful video. I had the problem of having low volumes on the bass and high volume on the treble strings. Just the first 3 minutes helped me solve it within minutes. A problem I had niggling for the last 6 months and I was so down that the guitar had this defect. And in India, you don't know where to get it done properly.
Hi, so I have a farida j10ce jumbo acoustic guitar, suddenly the end pin jack isn’t picking up any sound coming from my amp and just wont work, any ideas on how to fix this ?
