Emando pickup options and opinions?

[Lee]

Same kinda thing here.
http://www.graphtech.com/ghost_info.php
Don't know where Mike Christian went. I saw it at Elderly and at the time I think someone else offered the same thing.

[mandroid]

Mike, not Charlie Christian?

I'd always heard of a magnetic pickup style
attributed to Charlie, he didn't make them, but as a pioneer
of Jazz Guitar, that was what was on his guitar/ guitars.
an early EM150 mandolin used that type pickup too.

predates the p90 pickup

[Kid Charlemagne]

So here's a question for you guys:

I have two emandos - a Schwab and a Mann - and I love playing them both. One complaint that I have (and it's got nothing to do with the quality of the instruments at all) is that sometimes I want to get a more guitar-esque sound, but the pickups simply don't seem capable of capturing that tone.

I've capoed my Chiquita high enough that I'm playing in the same register as the mandolin, and it still sounds a bit more guitar like.

Is there a wiring issue (perhaps a capacitor) or something that contributes to this? Do I need to consider a pickup intended strictly for a guitar in order to get closer to this tone?

Or is this just always the way emandos are going to be?

[Christian McKee]

I have the same struggle myself, sometimes. I think the thing is that although we actually do have guitaresque tone, there are times when we want just exactly that sound. I've kind of resigned myself to the fact that I'm not going to have it until I learn to play the guitar...

Christian

[delsbrother]

[mrmando]

It's not a guitar, it's a six-string octave mandolin in an alternate tuning.

[Perry]

The Bartolini pick-ups on the Schwab's are very low output
and don't drive my amp or effects enought for a true electric "rock" guitar sound.

I use a Bad Bob Booster as the first thing in my signal chain
to get the output high enough.

I had an EM-200 and it had a mid-fifties P90 pick-up in it that rocked in a very musical way.

The Bartolinis are a bit sterile sounding for rock type applications IMHO.