OK... I have been playing mandolin a month or so now and am actually working from a bare bones budget, [which is why I have begun with a Rogue A-100] and have acquired a super cheap disc-style piezo pickup (advertised for guitar, mandolin, violin, uke) "at a comparable price"- (I do intend to eventually upgrade all this- this is just for starters)
I want to know where is the best placement spot for this - on the outside, under (or take off?) the pickguard, inside one of the f holes, que esta? I'm moving it around a lot with some masking tape until I come to some sort of decision where it ought to get mounted permanently but could use some first hand advice for those who might have been familiar with this before. On guitar it is easy enough to just put one inside the soundhole (because the hole's large enough to get inside) but mandolin has the 2 f holes, so... what exactly works best? (I'm eager to hear how this reacts with effects). It's going to go through a preamp first as well.
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