Ang haba nung nasulat ko tapos nawala. Bad trip. (page cannot be displayed crap) Heto ulit.
I installed the pickup myself. I had the endpin jack hole drilled by a local furniture shop. Hehehe. I followed the instructions in a website that lets you install the 3 leads of the K&K at one single time. I mean, it made sense for me. After that, I was about to fix the endpin jack when I found out na maliit yung butas for the endpin! Sabi kasi sa manual 1/2" drill bit eh so sinabi ko dun sa furniture shop earlier to use that kind of bit. Umoo lang pero siguro hindi talaga 1/2" yung ginamit. Anyway, I brought it over to Arie for him to drill the hole. After doing it, I finished installation.
BTW, off-topic lang. Napakabait talaga ni Sir Arie. I insisted on paying but hindi niya ko siningil. Nahihiya nga ako eh. Hehehe. Pero maraming salamat kay Sir Arie.
Anyway, I used the guitar in a gig. And quite honestly, I feel that the tone it gave me did not yield its full potential. As we know, the K&K PWM is a passive pickup, and I didn't have a preamp. I plugged straight into the PA kasi. I have yet to try the pickup with an outboard preamp. But as far as that gig was concerned, the pickup was not as exceptional as I expected. Siguro dahil nga sa impedance matching problems.
That is not to say, however, that I was not amazed. What blew me away was the fact that the tone sounded very transparent and indeed, as the reviews say, it sounds like your guitar only louder. No piezo quack. And ang ganda niya for strumming and rhythm parts. Thing is, medyo di ko pa siya na-aapreciate for fingerstyle work. Probably owing to the fact that I plugged straight into the PA without a preamp that would fix the impedance problems.
I'll post a review once I get hold of a decent preamp or have experienced plugging into one.