Fishman Rare Earth Blend Acoustic Guitar Pickup

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This easy-to-install soundhole pickup lets you adjust the blend between the built-in gooseneck mic and humbucker sound for warm, natural acoustic tone.

Overview

The Fishman Rare Earth Blend acoustic guitar pickup is a humbucking pickup with a built-in mic and balance control, designed for unequalled sound quality and ease of use. It's hard to beat the performance of this pickup. Cutting-edge neodymium magnets provide excellent string-to-string balance while the pickup's active electronics and low-noise, discrete circuitry design keep the sound pure and clean.

A flexible cardioid microphone and microphone bass extension/roll-off switch are the latest updates to this popular active soundhole pickup. The easily accessible Mic/Pickup Blend control offers just the right blend at your fingertips.

Take a listen to all the Rare Earth series soundhole pickups in this video from Fishman:

Features:

- Warm and full humbucking sound
- Flexible cardioid microphone and mic/pickup blend control
- Microphone bass extension/roll-off switch
- Active electronics and neodymium magnet structure for exceptional string balance and clarity
- Pre-wired output jack can also be permanently installed (endpin-mounted)
- Easy installation with no alteration
- Miniature batteries (included) offer 100 hours of life
- Fits soundholes as small as 3-5/8" (92 mm) diameter

Specs

Controls: Mic/Pickup Blend Control
Pickup Type: Humbucker with miniature microphone
Battery: Two 1.5-Volt Silver oxide or one 3-Volt Lithium
Battery Life: 110 hrs.
Output Impedance: 1k Ohm
Recommended Minimum Load Impedance: 10k Ohm
Supply Voltage: 3.0-3.6v

Dimensions and Weight in Packaging
Base Item: Shipping Weight: 0.75 lbs; Shipping Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 3 in; Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): PRO-REP-103
Open Box (Like New): Shipping Weight: 0.75 lbs; Shipping Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 3 in; Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): PRO-REP-103

Documents and Manuals

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 800-347-4626
Email: support@fishman.com

Installation Guide

User Manual

Reviews

(31 ratings)

Submitted March 15, 2018 by John Soon in Bloomington, IL

"This is an amazing sounding acoustic pickup"

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I installed this pickup in my Guild D-120e, leaving the stock pick up in and adding this permanently. It sounds absolutely amazing, i usually keep it blended at 50%. The ease of installation is superb and really the sound just blew me away. The first time i took it on stage the sound man was thoroughly impressed with the sound the pickup delivered. There is absolutely no reason this should have half a star after 32 reviews. It came in excellent new condition, zZounds provided fast shipping and again, i was very impressed with the sound. I recorded the stock pickup and the earth blend through my DAW and i could hear a very distinct obvious difference in quality. This thing is absolutely worth the money.