LR Baggs M1A active pickup. How to install the M1A on a guitar

I've installed this M1A LR Baggs active pickup on my Martin D-1 acoustic today. I recorded this tune using the Inspire PreSonus 1394 and CUbase software. The Martin is played through a Roland Jazz Chorus 77. I don't know if I like using this Amp with this LR Baggs unit. I made a short slide show of the project. This is the way I set up for the strap jack installation. I secured the Guitar in my vise (Velcro the strings out of the way) and removed the strap and end pin. The pickup's destructions called for a ½ inch hole. This is too big and the jack would be a little to loose for me. I measured the thing and decided to use a 15/32 installation hole. I reamed the hole from both sides and tapped the correct diameter hole slowly with a 15/32 bit. I repositioned the device in the sound hole. Use a guitar string to pull it through the tail block, tighten the nut down, and install the strap button. Next, I secured the wire down using the enclosed self-stick clips and restrung the guitar. Shake the guitar gently to see if the wire might be a little loose somewhere inside, you don't want it to flop around while playing. Next, install the pickup in the sound hole. Loosen the screws on either side of the pickup's top plate and clamp it to the lip on the sound hole. Don't over tighten! Each pole piece is adjustable for each string height. Plug in the guitar and check it out. I don't know why I waited so long to get one of these?

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Guitar-Repair
• Martin
• D-1
• LR
• Baggs
• M1A
• Active
• Magnetic
• Pickup
• Music
• Blues
• Piedmont
• Stew-Mac
• BobD

[davetoporek]

do you think this will be good for heavier folk/rock style music, or do you think this is a more classical style pickup ?

[bobdwilliams]

@davetoporek / Hey Dave, it's great for every style.....but the amp...ahhh, the amp is a quest I'm still on...I'm thinking about the Roland AC-60? Have you ever played through one of these?

[sahilcc7]

Does this need batteries?

[bobdwilliams]

@sahilcc7 yes, this is the active pickup :>)

[davetoporek]

@bobdwilliams No I haven't. I will let you know If I ever find the chance!

[ELEANOR320TD]

Hi Bob! yesterday I installed the pickup un my guitar but i have a problem.

The 4th string when push "in the aire" have a desagreable vibration, only in the fourth string.

The cable its a double male jack 1/4 (6,35mm) and my amplifier its a Stagg rocket 40w RMS.......

I have to upload a video ;) thank you!!!

[JustinZachary93]

What is the size of the end pin jack? Is it a 1/2 inch?

[bobdwilliams]

@ELEANOR320TD ....no, left / right wouldn't matter. It will sound AWESOME on your guitar--RAA!

[ELEANOR320TD]

ok thanks.

But i need change the position of the pick up to "left handed", maybe touch the sound control in the guitar and the instalation have problems.....

[bobdwilliams]

@arbshredder No my amp is the jc-77 ....I need to get some other something....acoustic amp...maybe a Fender 30 DSP. What do you think?

[arbshredder]

is that a jc-120 you are playing through?