theVoltist

 Why change the magnetic pickup in the first place? As I played my Acoustasonic Player Tele, I noticed that the magnetic pickup was generally weaker (especially the B & E strings) and had a lower overall volume than the piezo. It was also quite noisy, even though this was supposedly a noiseless N4 pickup. Switching from an acoustic tone to an electric tone became problematic, since, in my opinion, the whole point of using the electric tone was to play lead lines - a volume drop-off was unacceptable. To verify that my ears were correct, I measured the magnitude of the volume drop, and on average, it was about 6dB lower on the magnetic pickup, which is half the voltage.  Based on this information, I felt that a pickup swap was in order. A little background on my guitar I had been considering acquiring an Acoustasonic for a while, but the price was off-putting. The American versions were selling at the time for $2000, and the MIMs were at maybe $1200, and I was not willing to...