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Your cart is empty.The Pure Classic system is a passive system for nylon string guitars with 4 sensors to stick under the guitar bridge as well as the integrated jack output. The 3 high-performance contact sensors provide a perfect balance in response and capture the vibration of the wood
Jim Lombard
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2024
I'm happy and I'm busy. I work on guitars.
James V. Eccles
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2024
I have an intermediate classic guitar -- a Yamaha G-245S. It has adequate projection as a classical instrument for home practice. I have been looking to upgrade for small venue performance. First, I thought I would put a pickup into the guitar to see if it could be used for performance.The K&K Sound Pure Classic pickup was recommended and Amazon had the best price for the pickup. The pickup was mounted by a technician who had installed many K & K Pure Pickups for acoustic steel string guitars. Once the Classic version was installed, I tried the guitar in the store using a Fender Acoustic Junior GO Guitar Amplifier. I had been trying other acoustic-electric guitars on the amp. Every guitar (Taylor and Martin classic guitars) sounded great. My newly 'electrified' guitar had only bass. ONLY BASS. The treble strings were entirely absent from the amplified sound. The three-knob EQ on the Fender Amp was not sufficient to permit enough bass suppression and enough treble enhancement to give the guitar any treble pop. Only massive bass feedback resulted from any increased volume to hear my treble strings!Very muddy sound. The Yamaha does have a cedar top, which is mellow, but the K & K classic pickup was nearly useless for direct amplification. I had to buy a 10-band EQ MXR to provide any reasonable balance sound. It still doesn't give a quality treble experience. It may be the fault of the installer, though he suggested the K & K classic version probably was more mellow that the K & K pure pickup that he was used to installing.I am out about $400 for the pickup, installation, and EQ. The sound is still unsatisfying. I am probably going to sell the guitar and find a better acoustic-electric alternative. The goal is a guitar that satisfies during the quiet acoustic practice time and the amplified performance events. The current guitar and pickup situation is not sufficient for performance. I performed 20 years ago on a similar classic guitar with a Fishman saddle-bridge pickup with much better sound than the current K&K installation.Disappointed.
Gerardo
Reviewed in Mexico on June 22, 2022
Parece ser auténtico, viene de Ohio. Lo voy a instalar en una guitarra echa por Luthier. Dare un update de su sonido en cuanto la pruebe.
S. Sykes
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2021
I have never found a more natural sounding pickup. My guitar plugged in sound just like my guitar unplugged, just louder.
Chris
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2019
Fitted to a very old classical guitar. Quite a difficult install as the sound hole was very small and my hands are big. It was not quite as easy to fit as the mini due to no bridge plate for guidance, but as suggested drilling two holes and I dropped large paper clip in L shape so it didn`nt fall through. I used the putty from the mini install to stick the pickup to my gloved finger which worked better than the tape. Slowly, slowly,got there in the end . Two brace strips stopped a perfect fit, but the end result was fine. Not to much contact noise from the surface, as the body is quite thin. Nice nylon sound. Quite amazed at how loud these pickups are for passive. Highly recommended.
Fern
Reviewed in Canada on November 7, 2019
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Karine Gallant
Reviewed in Canada on October 4, 2019
Produit de qualité, tel que décrit.Livraison rapide
Michael A. McClosky
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2017
I have used several other brands of pickup in my nylon string guitars, including the most well regarded name brands. The K&K is easily the most natural sounding pickup I have ever used in a classical guitar. It's not brittle sounding, like under-saddle units, and not woofy like most other soundboard transducers. It's warm and musical sounding, and loud enough to use without a preamp. I would recommend using a good acoustic amp or a preamp with a good range of eq though, to tame the finger squeaks.
Juan Martin Ledesma
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2016
excelent pickup for the buck, I also own the acoustic one, with this one (the classic) I would recomend an external eq because as natural as the sound is, and not nasal as other pickups, it does tend to get a bit bassy,, (I also recomend an external eq on the acoustic version but if you dont have one you get a descent sound anyways),,, anyways if I would have to instal a pickup on my other classical I would definetively consider this one again (If you have the extra buck and you absolutely know you are keeping your classical, or even acoustic, guitar for a lifetime I would check out the trinity sistem)
Dang Man
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2014
I'm not a classical guitar player, more of a jazz/rock player with 22yrs experience and typically play my ES-335. but i've always loved the sound of a nylon string guitar.this is my first pickup purchase for a nylon string guitar. it was recommended by a guitar tech and gotta say i really like it. i was a little apprehensive at first being worried the tone wouldn't come out, but it sounds great; more responsive than i thought it would be.
Stephen Sheriff
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2014
I've installed quite a few K&K pickup systems in the custom steel string guitars I build, and they are definitely one of my favorite rigs, because they are the essence of simplicity, they sound great, very natural and organic, and they don't have even a hint of hum.Recently, I built a nylon-string hybrid guitar for a client who already has another of my guitars, with a K&K installed. He asked me to put a K&K Pure Classic in his new guitar. When I tested it out, I got the same result as with the Pure Mini passive system: Very natural sounding, super-easy to EQ, zero hum... In other words, EXCELLENT.Ordering through Amazon, the price was well below full retail, and the shipping took only three days.I will be back for more!
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