Mcintyre mt-100 external

[manicmando]

i have a eastman 615 and a jbovier a5-g and a fishman preamp was wondering what you guys thought of this pickup or have you ever herd one on someone else's mandolin or if you have other opinions

[clopez]

We're using one on a Bovier zouk with an older Fishman Pro EQ II. It's pretty decent, sounds about like the zouk. We have K&K Mini and Schertlers in other noisemakers and we were surprised. Not perfect, but it works well and sounds fairly natural. Not much EQ for us, just some bass roll off.

[manicmando]

thanks finally somebody replied

[jim_n_virginia]

I have a Macintyre internal pickup but probably same thing as the external. I like mine when I need to plug in usually when drums are involved. But otherwise 90% of the time I play into a mic.

I use a Fishman Pro Platimun EQ to shape the sound. It sound OK better than the Fishman bridge pickup I had, I took it off after a week.

Macintyre is nice but I think next time I may try K&K

Oh yeah your probably not getting many responses because not all that many people use a Macintyre internal pickup is all. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Paul Hostetter]

I have installed a great many McIntyres for clients over the years. Some of them (who could afford it) went over to Schertlers, but pretty much all have come back to McIntyres now. They (there are really only a couple of flavors, packaged for different applications but the same pickup) work really well with the Baggs PADI. The K&K are pretty close. In either case, placement is everything. Once you find the good spot on the outside, you can install it inside and not have to look at it.

[Snakebeard Jackson]

I used one once and switched over to the internal

[clopez]

I remember talking to Paula Jean at Sound to Earth a few years back. She told me that they were (then) installing the M-100 internally. STE at the time liked the amp'd tone better than the Feather. Maybe they've moved on from that. I haven't A/B'd in the same instrument but I'm pretty impressed with the Feathers I've heard in guitars, sound quality similar to the K&K Mini's, and I'm satisfied with the M-100 on the 'zouk.

[Ted Eschliman]

My experience with two different Internal Feathers, Paul's advice is sound. You want someone who really knows what they are doing to install it. I've heard from too many disappointed users who didn't have them installed right, but the P/Us will do the job well with proper placement.

Also, a good EQ/Preamp with a notch filter would be prudent. I'm happy with the McIntyre and an UltraSound DIplus preamp.

[Jonmiller]

I used one for the first time Sunday on my newly acquired MT2-mines internal- I loved it and my wife said it sounded good out in the audience( no pre amp). She's used to hearing my Givens with a Fishman bridge PU.