Side by Side Comparison of: Neewer

excellent.

For the price ...EXCELLENT !! I had to send back an electric mandolin like three days before a gig !!! Was left hanging until I remembered this little pick up and threw it on my acoustic mandolin !!!! It is pretty sensitive to PA magnets ...so have your volume control close to kill feedback ! But this sounded great and bailed me out of a very tight spot !!!! And was Crazy cheap so I'm going to buy like 5 of them !!

This was perfect, not only does it sound great, it helped fix a WOOF that I had on my F#. The sticky is really good so be sure to get the right placement before adhering it to the instrument. I have it in a sweet spot about 2 inches from the bridge and just below the horizontal bridge line.

This piezo pickup is great! You have to understand how they work in order to get the best sound. I used some masking tape to find the best spot for the pickup. For my mandolin, it was right behind the bridge, in set in the middle of the strings. YOU HAVE TO SECURE THE WIRE! The wire is microphonic as well and will make tons of noise when moved or touched. Simply secure it down with scotch tape. I stretched mine tight, wrap the wire to the back of the mandolin and taped it down in a few spots I knew my arm wouldn't touch. Presto chango and there is no more "feedback" noise or crackling or popping. Secondly, while the pickup sounds pretty good without a preamp, I would highly recommend one. The sound is kinda flat without it. I bought the BEHRINGER V-TONE ACOUSTIC DRIVER. Its like $30 and works great! With these to components, my mandolin sounds great through any amp.

I bought this to use on my classic guitar. I have a amateur recording project underway, and I wanted to add a track for the guitar. As another reviewer mentioned, it picks up all noise associated with the instrument just as any microphone would. This is different from an magnetic coil pickup standard on electric guitars which amplify only the vibrations from the metal strings. For the price, it is a good tool for my task.

My husband has been making cigar box guitars. We happened upon this product when he was ordering parts. When the item arrived the packaging was a little cheap looking so we made a few jokes about it before he tried it out. HE LOVES IT and we just ordered more. He was so impressed with the sound and ease of use. This product is highly recommended. Just purchased more this week and he is anxiously awaiting their arrival!

This product worked better than I expected! The sound quality sounds great, like I plugged my acoustic right into my amp. I haven't run into any problems! I'd definitely recommend this product to anyone that wants to amplify their acoustic guitars, but doesn't want to dish out the money to pay for an electric-acoustic!

One minute to install, worked right out of the box.It let me play with a freind who only has an electic. We played together in 20 years.
It's ptobably not studio quality, but for playing for personal entertainment, it is perfect. I love it.

Purchased this pickup just looking to get a wider variety of sounds out of my acoustic. Out of the box it seemed to be of pretty decent quality. more metal & weight to it than i had expected. I put mine in my Rouge RD-80 which is a super cheap starter acoustic ($80). Paired together for a pretty awesome setup. I mean I payed $9 for my pickup, some people mentioned they had to modify them to lay beneath their strings right, mine was pretty good right out the box. I could see how the tabs could scratch up your guitar, but with mine its really not much an issue. Sound quality is pretty good sounds mostly like an electric and is a little heavy on picking up the B and High E strings but with the right EQ settings and fine tuning I'm sure you could dial this thing in! Very little hum aswell. Overall I'm extremely happy i definitely got my $10 value out of the pickup and paired with a cheap guitar you cant beat the versatility for less than $100. If you have a nicer guitar your afraid to mark up I'd go with a nicer pickup I'm sure you'll gain some aound quality too but for anybody who is looking for cheap stuff that rocks, cant beat it.

I started playing the guitar about 2 years ago and need a good pickup for my acoustic guitar. I found this pickup to be super for the price. It installed super easily and worked fine. It produces a really nice sound that is very evenly balanced. I am using this with the sound system at my church and it sounds really good. The 10 foot cable works well. I have it plugged into a direct box and then into the sound system. For the money this is a no brainer and it actually sounds better than a much more expensive pickup a friend of mine bought. If you try it I know you will like it.

I've owned my acoustic for about 25 years. I have an electric too, and I bought this pickup so I could plug this into my amp. All I can say is it sounds fantastic, and I've fallen in love with my acoustic all over again.

I stuck this baby to my banjitar and plugged it in, played three chords on it and got offered a spot in Mumford and Sons. This bad boy sounds like a throng of angels singing directly in your ears. It works like a charm and I will be ordering more to mix my old acoustics. The only issue I found was the Velcro was hard to adjust to keep the cable attached to the banjo. Get this thing and enjoy the luscious sound that you have always been missing.

These are pretty cool. The construction is pretty descent for the price. I did have a problem with the cover of the pickup falling off. I would recommend finding the perfect spot and than attaching the pickup because the adhesive tape used to stick this on is very, very strong. It is pretty easy to use as you stick it on and plug it in. The Velcro end that holds the female adapter is kind of hard to get tight but it works. This is also pretty cool for amplifying anything you want and making it into an in instrument. It is fun to experiment with.

The pickup works great and everyone in my string quartet liked the sound. I did have to use an additional clip to better secure the connector to one side of my viola chinrest.

It works to pick up vibrations of any sort. I used it on a home-built guitar with no sound-box. It picks up some extra noise, but it did indeed turn a slab of solid wood into a electric bass.

it works literally as a microphone for the guitar, i placed it right in the middle of the hole in my guitar on the back wood. It picks up the sound perfectly and clear . Its a very cheap and reliable option for anyone trying to amplify an acoustic guitar or such.

Comparable sound quality and higher volume than a similar, and several times more expensive, product from a big-name maker. Comes with a binder clip, but no instructions, so I can only guess why. :)

Great product for the price!
I have a baby Taylor and although it's a bit of a tight fit, it works fine and now I don't need to worry about getting a bigger guitar! I can use the small guitar as is for smaller rooms and with this mic/amp for larger rooms.
This picks up sound pretty well and can't beat this price!
Only caution is if it's not inserted straight it touches the strings, causing a muffled sound or unwanted high notes.

i installed it wth the help of a youtube video.. guys for the price i like it.. although you wil hear some negative reviews abt it.. but its a chinese product wht no documentations watsoevr... so go for it if u want it for a home recording.. where you use it to record sometimes.. if ur an artist and do shows daily... .its a strict no no... you might have to adjust mic input gain or u will get some noise... make the gains low and pull up the volume on the amp.. i like the wire hangin from the strumming hand. .but its upto u wr u get the best results..wire is long enough and the quarter inch jack is a life saver who wnt it directly in their interface/mixer.... go for it if u use it not so often...

So far I've been pretty happy with this pickup. I needed a pickup to use with my acoustic instead of running out and buying an a/e guitar for gigging right away. So far I've used this since Febuary and have just recently started looking to upgrade (mainly the guitar). I've only noticed a few problems and will address them and their solutions first, then give the good news.

Cons:
First, although this is a pickup made to pickup steel strings using electromagnetic field properties, it does have some microphonic properties (picks up vibrations from the guitar and tapping on the guitar and pickup itself). This caused me problems when I initially installed the pickup in the center of the soundhole. If I brushed the pickup mounting tabs a terrible clicking would occur.
Solution; Move the pickup as high up toward the neck as possible. This got the pickup out of my strumming, and may have actually warmed the tone up a bit. I also drilled a hole in the side of the guitar near the bottom strap button, then cut and soldered the leads to an input jack running the cable internally. Any unwanted noise from bumping the pickup is avoided, and with a more perminant install also allows me to use a standard guitar cable to plug in like any electric or a/e. No couplers or extra connections to worry about.
The second and only other problem I've noticed is that the B string sounds noticeably louder than all other strings. This can be a problem when both picking and strumming as it wouldn't allow even volume across the guitar. Solution; Use a compressor. The Joyo Dyna Comp has worked well, but I now use the TC Helicon Play Acoustic with built-in compression to even out string volume, which is also nice when going from picking and strumming. This doesn't take much, but helps keep my volume levels more balanced, and still allows for good dynamics without squashing everything.

Pros:
This thing is very inexpensive. I hate using the word cheap, because it actually has a decent build quality and is holding up very well!
The sound I'm getting is very exceptable in comparison to some piezo equipped a/e guitars I've heard. It's by no means a mic'd fully articulate sound, but it does have some warmth from its slightly microphonic properties and has a decent a/e tone without a preamp or eq.
While it can be used with ok results plugged straight into a pa or amp, using this with a quality preamp or DI this where this thing can shine. Again, I use this with the TC Helicon Play Acoustic and when used with the Body Rez settings it can really sound quite amazing! I've been able to go into the advanced settings and with enough tweaking get very close to what my guitar sounds like acoustically which was very impressive! Some a/e tones I just can't stand! Obviously you're not going to get the best overtones, but with new strings and proper eq, a nice warm acoustic sound can be accomplished quite well!
This is probably why I haven't really been concerned in trying to find another acoustic electric guitar. So far I've been very happy and only recently am looking to upgrade. Mainly because I'm after a smaller body cutaway like an OM, rather than a full sized Dreadnought.

I know this was a long review, but I almost never review things, and didn't see anything that really addressed using this to get a solid gig worthy setup with a few more dollars and cents...
So in the end I'm going to give this thing a 4 star rating. If I didn't run the cable internally with a jack, and didn't have a nice preamp w/ DI I probably wouldn't use it for constant gigging. I can see where this would be nice to use at an open mic if you don't have a a/e guitar, or you're a sound guy that likes to have a few extra pieces of gear for those just incase situations without breaking the bank.

One last thing for those budget minded musicians trying to plug in and achieve a good tone. I highly suggest this pickup, a Joyo Dyna Comp, and the Behringer ADI21 into a PA with some reverb in that order. For like $60 you now have an a/e guitar, with balanced levels, and a DI with acoustic amp modeling and EQ. I took this exact setup to an open mic and had the sound guy say he really liked what he was hearing. He also heard the Taylor expression system, and a Gibson J45 with an LR Baggs M1A that night before we played. I took that as a huge compliment, and thanked him for helping to send it out front. This turned out to be a great inexpensive rig that I didn't worry about getting lost, stolen, or damaged (beer spills mainly) from a roudy stompin crowd.

Hope this helped as a review, and gave a little insight as to what can be done for tone on a budget.

Excellent pickup for the price. I put this on a left handed Rogue acoustic guitar I have, and was surprised at how well it sounded. Just so people know, acoustic guitars through regular electric guitar amps usually don't sound too good, and this is pickup no exception. They are actually meant to be played through a bass amp or a PA because they have a wider frequency range. I have neither, so I just played this through a regular guitar amp and it sounded like a bit too distorted for an acoustic guitar. That's the amps fault though, not the pickup. I took off one star because the volume and tone are unfortunately NOT adjustable. Also, the cable is permanently affixed to the pickup, and the cable is very low quality. It's lasted me about a month now though, so maybe not as bad as it looks. For the price, I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to play their acoustic through an amp.

Has a slight low hum when I plugged it into the PA. Not to noticeable. Would need to be EQed to get to sound decent. Would be nice if they had the cord coming out of the front side (neck side) instead of the other side. Cord can get in the way of strumming. I figured out to run the cord around the back of the pickup when I mount it to make the cord pop out of the hole on the neck side.
Installing it is easy. The cord is a little short and thin, half the size of a standard patch cord.
For the price and if you can EQ it. It’s worth it! I would use it at practic and open mic nights.

This little thing turned my little uke into a fade melting weapon! Lol not really but it does work pretty well. The connection is a little cheesy abs the cord falls out alot. It does pick up the sound pretty well and is kind of fun to overdrive the Amp so it sounds more like an electric guitar. For the cheap money is worth having just for fun.

This is an okay pickup if you are just wanting to record for practice sessions. It will do better than almost any microphone will, but don't use the included sound card. As others have said it has a constant high-pitch noise on its input. I would never remove the adhesive covering on the pickup and I wouldn't use the included clip or velcro. It would be silly to risk damaging your instrument. Instead, you can pin the pickup under your chinrest and have the cord run out along the tailpiece loosely.

cheap mic, cheap sound :(

Low quality, but that is expected for the price... if you take good care of it , quality wont matter that much. And about how good it works, well depends on your understanding of this kind of mic. I think it woirks OK. Not the best, but it-s Ok.

It does what you would expect. I attempted to use it to install a piezo output for my electric guitar to run into a PA. The trouble is that the microphone picks the noise of touching/moving the guitar louder than the strings vibrating themselves. Still, not a bad experiment for the price.

Well it's from China so you get what you pay for, but I like the sound it works fine but the only thing is the jack doesn't fit all the way in when you plug it in and it keeps falling out. Other than that I like the sound and it's a good price.

Its pretty hot on the high strings and I can't play above the fifth fret, as it interferes, it sits too high. But, I like it otherwise and will probably modify the securing points in order to lower it. I bought an EQ pedal to dampen the high "hotness", which helps.
2/16/17 I used a needle nosed pliers to re- bend the ears, so they are now at the same level as the top of the pickup, and now its great! The high strings sound great! Not too hot any more. I think Neewer should have some sort of adjustment for different height fretboards.

The clip design holds in place, but it sits up too close to the strings. Luckily, I don't play very much beyond the 9th fret or so on most things I do,, but anything played on lower frets makes the strings touch the pickup and muffle/distort. There's a thin pad meant to protect the outer finish near the opening that could possibly be removed to gain back some of the clearance, but my guess is that then the finish where that touches might get scratched. Sound-quality-wise (when the strings don't touch) is pretty good.

Well, it works ok. The problem is that it sits way too high and the strings of my guitar hit against it when pressed. I had to bend the brackets on the device so its sits lower inside the hole. That worked, but now the device doesn't have a good grip on my guitar body and is loose. My guitar is a small body guitar. Not sure if that is why.

My guitar strings don't line up with the dots on the pickup. It doesn't seem to make much difference though. Like I said, it works. I'm using it to play Rocksmith. Please note, if you are purchasing this for Rocksmith, you will need to purchase a 1/4" stereo female to female connector as well.

Also, this doesn't come with installation instructions. Proper installation isn't super obvious either. Not cool.

I use this on an Ibanez performance acoustic, and have found the results middling. It has trouble with staying snugly put once inside the guitar. And at times the sounds it produces are chirpy, perhaps because of the proximity of the strings when pushed down. I didn't pay too much for this, and perhaps I got my money's worth.

Doesn't really have much output, and was kind of hard to fit to my guitar (a Recording King Dirty Thirties single O). Sits really far below the strings, and have tried to shim it up closer some, but not much change in output levels. String response is really uneven - the unwound strings are much louder. Adjustable poles would have been nice. Have a set of white bronze acoustic/electric strings on order, so will see if that helps some with these issues. Currently have to run through an impedance matching transformer AND a preamp to get it to levels loud enough to use with my amp. And it's still pretty quiet. Will update this review if the new strings change anything.

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Here's the deal with these: Yes, they do work surprisingly well for pickups costing less than a box of tissues, and if you need one for playing around at home with a knock-around instrument, you will enjoy this a lot and likely have no complaints. HOWEVER: If you are using these in a crazy environment (constant gigs) and have a nice instrument (and definitely NOT sticking that velcro to your instrument finish!), these are not a good choice. Because I wasn't going to stick the velcro on, we used putty, which is what many people use for pickups, but the necks on these are so fragile and thin that after about 6 shows, the weight of the 1/4 cable pulling on the pickup will cause the wires to fray, and they stop working. We used these for a school of rock style workshop, and we found that at the show, they all suddenly stopped working. It seemed like a strange mystery until I looked very close and saw the wires starting to show through the black coating near the top of the pickup. I ordered expensive ($60 each) pickups with nice, thick wires and those have lasted so much longer and been much easier for the kids to rough-and-tumble with versus these pickups. Would not ever buy again....penny wise, pound foolish.

Extremely low in sounds.

It'd be useful if the plastic cover was actually affixed to the shell covering. It would also be useful if, when the cover falls off, you don't discover that the actual piezo surface wasn't floating around loose inside the shell.

Didn't fit my guitar. Seems too thick to sit behind the strings comfortably.

Don't really know if I can recommend this, will not buy this one again.
As an alternative, get the one that you can attach to a headstock, like Cherub WCP-60G Acoustic Guitar Pickup which I just got.
If you still want to get this one, I'd suggest you route the wires inside the guitar and drill a hole on the side of the guitar as a permanent solution. But then again, if you have to do that, you might as well invest on a nice piezo and preamp pickup as a permanent solution.

Pros:
1. Will fit into a travel guitar with a 3.5" sound hole.
2. Will fit into a standard dreadnought with a 4" sound hole.
3. Quick and easy way to connect acoustic guitar to your amp.
4. Inexpensive.

Cons:
1. Sensitive pickup, be careful not to hit the cable while playing because it can emit transient noise (loud spikes of squealing noise) to your amp.

2. Too thick. My guitars have low action. When I fret the strings, the strings will hit the pickup. I had to bend the tabs to avoid this problem. However, the metal tabs on the pickup are now sticking upwards, so I can jar the pickup out of place if I am not paying attention.

3. Will damage your guitar finish if you are not careful. The metal clamps have sharp edges. I inspected the pickup before installation. My solution was to wrap the edges with electrical tape before installation. If you don't, your sound hole edges will have etched scratches. So, not recommended for expensive guitars, You might want to invest on something better than this product.

4. Requires a lot of "EQ'ing" on my amp. Had to lower high and middle treble substantially to get the warm acoustic sound I am looking for.

The sound pickup that I received was not Neewer brand. When in stalled it hits the guitar strings. I tried adjusting it every way possible and still did not lay flat and it hit the last two guitar strings. It picked up the sound which was nice, but due to it hitting the strings it was not usable for me.

I'm not super happy with this product. It sounds fine once it's in, but it's rather difficult to get it installed in the guitar. The locking mechanisms are very tight and difficult to get locked in place. I wouldn't want to add and remove from a guitar on a regular basis. I have used this on 2 different guitars, and it scratched the finish on the front pretty good on one of them. On the same guitar, the high E string also hit the pickup, causing a buzzing/twanging sound. I tried to adjust it, but there really isn't much adjusting to it. The other guitar worked fine and didn't seem to scratch or hit strings. There has to be a better way of adding a temporary pickup than this device.

Cheap.

Bad quality, buzzing and muted. Not one of my best purchases.

very bad and it doesn't work with oud instrument

Not worth a thin dime. The pickup misses all high frequencies.

Piece of junk! Fell apart with in moments of opening and attaching to ukulele. Ripped wood off upon removal as well! DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!

Give this a pass. The pickup is very noisy and it literally does what the name says; pick up EVERYTHING. Banging on the instrument, clothing moving against the instrument, even talking and singing. The Velcro strap meant to hold the jack in place is weak and the pickup picks up the 'grinding' of the Velcro. Do yourself a favor and buy a proper pickup with a proper installation.

cheap product! With all the right equipment I still got distortion. Went right in the trash!

I just returned this to Amazon. The problem with this pickup is the way it is designed: it sits too high above my guitar's sound hole and presses up against the strings, making it absolutely unusable. (I have a Yamaha FG-400 folk guitar.) I'm going to try a stick-on piezo pickup.

It sound Ok. It seems pretty fragile. The cord is is poorly attached at the pick-up end, with bare wires hanging out of the housing, and can come loose or even break easily. The silver "magnet poles" are actually a piece of silver cardboard! I know it's cheap, but it won't last long. UPDATE- worse than I thought. I had to downgrade from 2 to 1 star. Plugged it in about half a dozen times, and the input came apart. Spend a few more dollars to get a pickup that lasts longer than a few uses, really a piece of junk.

Poor design AND UNUSABLE. After installation the first string hits the pickup when fretted above the 4th fret. This occurred on two expensive guitars where action was not the issue. Sound quality was fine for kids guitar, but design flaws forced return. Sadly I contacted Neewer by email with questions (open 24/7) NO REPLY FROM THE COMPANY AFTER 4 DAYS. Judge for yourself. I did not expect a great product for the money, but I did expect it to work properly. Disappointed.

The pole pieces don't fit a standard folk guitar. They seemed to be designed for a classical guitar, which makes no sense because those use non-magnetic strings. Absolute garbage.

TOO CLOSE TO STRINGS, MAKES THEM TWANGLE AND SOUND LIKE CHIKENS DYING FROM POISONOUS GAS.