Wireless Pickup FS-1 Acoustic Guitar Sound Hole Pickup Free Hole Wireless Transmission, dual pickup, with playing board，wireless guitar pickups system，tonewood amp

Things I like:Quality seems good. Packaging was good. It comes with a nice reusable padded box. Sound quality seems very good. The are two types of pickups: magnetic and microphone. They seem to work together well and give you the ability to manage the type of sound you want to generate with the two volume adjustments on the pickup. Having wireless is great. No need to worry about cords.Challenges:Depending in the size of the sound hole on the guitar, you might not be able to get the pickup into the guitar and tightened it down. On one of my acoustics with a pretty standard 4” hole, I was able to fit the pickup in with no trouble. On my other acoustic, with a 3.5” sound hole, I barely got it in by the skin of my teeth. Just something to be aware before you purchase this unit.Both the pickup and receiver have USB charging ports. It’s very helpful if you have either a long USB cable to charge the pickup that is in the guitar from a wall receptacle or have a separate charging battery that you can place next to the guitar. I do the latter and that works fine.

I believe this could be a really great product, but I had way too many issues with it. First of all I ordered it not realizing it was coming all the way from China, so it took a really long time to ship. The first week I had it, I was totally excited about the quality of sound, and I never had an issue with it hooked up to my cube at home, so after a couple of weeks of testing it at home, I decided it was ready for Sunday morning at church. I had it mounted in my favorite dreadnought, as I had some bluegrass gospel songs on the lineup for the morning, and the worst case scenario happened....it cut out right in the middle of a song and suddenly I was singing a solo with mandolin and violin accompaniment. So, I brought it home and took it out. I was going to send it back to Amazon, and remembered that it came from China...can't believe there weren't any other wi-fi pick up options on Prime at the time, so considering it came all the way from China, and how long it took to arrive, I just decided to stuff it in a drawer. a few weeks later, I read another buyer's review and they described the same issue, and thought it was the volume control. So I moved the sound hole pick up to a spot that I would not accidently hit it with the pick. I thought the problem was solved and the issue did not reoccur again during practice. So, I gave it another shot on a Sunday morning and it happened again. Either there is a loose contact or it is losing signal. This time it is going on the junk pile. It is a great toy for around the home, but not trustworthy enough in a live setting. Nevertheless, this is a great concept and it could be an excellent product with further testing and development. The acoustic sound is stunning when it works.PS. I just had to add to this review and delete a star. A year later I finally got a response from SkySonic to discuss this issue with Amazon a year after the return window was closed. The fact that it took a year to hear back from anyone annoyed me so much that I had to go in and further decline my rating. Yep still in the junk drawer and still out $136 dollars.

I have wanted a wireless PU system for an acoustic guitar for 15 years. Why Baggs or Fishman have never made one of these I don't know, but thankfully SkySonic now has. I bought the 2018 version.I have about 20 hours of playing and playing around with it so far. My impressions are as follow:It lacks some really key functionalities to make it a reliable pro tool (and I hope the SkySonic folks are monitoring these reviews because they need to get on this):-Deal killer: The volume control for the magnetic PU is oriented "in the line of fire" for strummers and I have hit it on occasion and ended up jacking up the volume. (In other words, it is lined up vertically with the top of the guitar, which means as you strum on the same vertical plane, you may hit it and change the volume level. This just really can't happen when you are playing live. It needs to be situated horizontally to the strumming plane like Baggs and other PU manufacturers do.Not a deal killer, but close: Rather than separate volume controls for magnetic and mic, I would suggest (1) a mix wheel for amount of mag versus amount of mic and and (2) an overall volume control. For professional musicians playing on stage, you need to be able to control your overall volume during a set (as you can never rely on the soundman to be paying enough attention to do that). As this system is confected now, you have to adjust two volume controls to do that (in order to keep the mix the same) and given the sensitivity of the mag wheel (too sensitive in my view), that's a challenge in a live set.Finally: While the volume control on the Mic seems to have a seamless and consistent effect on volume (from none to max), the volume control for the magnetic PU does not. You get no volume for about a third of the "travel" of the wheel and then all of a sudden, a lot of volume. This is really a bad design and impacts the effectiveness of the blending process.With all of these negatives covered, let me say that otherwise, this is a groundbreaking product, especially for those of us with vintage guitars (that we do not want to cut holes in!). You can get it to sound very woody and authentic. Perhaps not as good as the Baggs Anthem system, but darn close.However, you have to set the system up right!By that I mean, first of all: adjust the pole pieces. I have used a Sunrise in sound-hole magnetic PU for years and have found that it works best when the base E and A are set to maximum height and D and G are slightly lower, and B and E are buried as far down as you can turn them. This maximizes the bass response and minimizes the harsh treble characteristics of magnetic PUs. So, do the same on the FS-1.Second, experiment with preamps; and aggressive eq'ing is called for with the FS-1 system. My Baggs Para Acoustic D.I. was the ticket among several preamps I tried. Also, I rolled off the treble and mid-range to about 9 (on the clock face) and boosted the bass to about 1 am/pm. That, plus balancing the mic/mag mix got me a pretty "natural" acoustic tone. Not perfect, but very acceptable for both recording and live performance.Since this is the only dual source option as of this writing (that I have found) that is truly wireless, even though I have rated the product 4 of 5, I would still recommend it for those of you wanting to take that vintage acoustic out for performing. I'm playing a festival in two weeks and I will report back on how that goes.Meanwhile, I hope SkySonic takes this review to heart. Put these changes into effect and double the price. You have a great product!

I recommend reading the review by dawg, as I agree with all of his/her suggestions for improvement. But, overall, I think it works great and I love being amplified with nothing sticking out of the guitar. I will suggest you be careful when installing. On the Martin I put it on, it was quite a tight fit to get on to the soundhole - the phillips screws on each side can scratch your guitar on edge of sound hole if you just force it in.