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Brand: LR Baggs
Label: LR Baggs
Manufacturer: LR Baggs
MPN: IBAS-C
Publisher: LR Baggs
Studio: LR Baggs

Features:

• 2-time winner of MIPA's "Best Pickup" award
• Natural, acoustic tone
• Easy installation
• Totally plug-and-play
• Specially notched to fit classical guitar fan bracing

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
The award-winning LR Baggs IBeam is a soundboard pickup that adheres to the inside of your guitar. In doing so, it produces a remarkably natural tone by picking up the vibrations of the soundboard (rather than the vibration of the strings, as with undersaddle pickups). The IBeam is responsive enough that it will even pick up percussive effects and fingersqueak. Included with each IBeam is a placement jig that makes the pickup totally self-installable (provided you have the hole for the endpin jack in place). The IBeam Active system adds an all-discrete Class A endpin preamp inside your guitar for a simple and affordable plug-and-play solution. Not only does this mean that you don't have to mess with (and carry) an external preamp, but the tone of the Ibeam really does benefit from the onboard electronics. All the new Ibeam Active models also include a nifty volume control that mounts invisibly inside your soundhole.




Rating: - Convenient all round pickup
I've had numerous pickups over the years: a Baggs dual source, a McIntyre, a Barcus Berry, iBeams. K & K Passive...My favorite overall is the ibeam,. and I have one in my Guild Jumbo steel string and this little number in my McAlister classical guitar. It's one of the easier pickups to install, and I really like the tiny volume control that sits onboard just peaking out of the soundhole rim.

This pickup is very microphonic. which means it sounds a LOT like you're simply miking your ... Read More

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