L.R. Baggs Lyric Acoustic Guitar Microphone

I have used LR Baggs with my Martins, Larrivees, Collings, and Huss and Dalton acoustics for over 20 years. IMHO an internal mic is the next best thing to an external large diagram mic. This is the first one I have installed myself. Due to the scamdemic the local guitar shop was on limited hours and backed up weeks and I needed it for worship within days. Honestly my instal is cleaner than the ones I had done by techs. The downside to an internal mic are occasional feedback off the house sound system which is easily corrected by a good sound tech. Also it can be sensitive to an IEM, pic or anything knocking against the body of the guitar. But hey ... you can't beat the acoustic sound quality. Again IMHO a piezo pickup does not do a quality acoustic guitar justice. Piezo makes them sound electric not acoustic. My experience with LR Baggs customer service has been excellent. They repaired a 15 year old Para Acoustic DI box for me for free.

The media could not be loaded. I have 14 acoustic guitars.This is the best sounding pickup I’ve ever heard.I swapped out the K&K pure mini for the Lyric. Watch the video and listen to how natural it sounds, even on an iPhone microphone . It sounds way better in real life.This is by far the most accurate voicing pickup I’ve heard. Nothing has hit a home run like this guy!If you’re in between the Anthem/ Anthem SL/ and the Lyric,Get the Lyric.The anthem is awesome, but I mainly have it at 100% mic anyway. And the SL is a blend between both.The Lyric was just amazing in its response in a large room and through my acoustic rig.

I recently purchased a brand new Taylor 320 all mahogany acoustic guitar and the only setback I was facing was not being able to plug it in. I looked around and did some research with pickups, microphones, and even piezo systems until I found this Lyric. What really caught my attention was how easy it was to instal and how no modification was needed to install it into my guitar. Within an hour I was playing through my monitor speakers and recording acoustic tracks! What really sets this apart is how it picks up literally any sounds inside and outside of the guitar, since it is a fully functional microphone. I can use my guitar as a percussive instrument just as much as it is a stringed instrument. I am so glad I got it and for the money, it was well worth it! It captures all the small nuances that my hog top has without sacrificing my wallet or modifying the guitar. Definitely get this!

I bought this to replace a Seymour Duncan MagMic which was already a very good match for my Lowden O22. I already have an LR Baggs Anthem which works brilliantly on my Lowden O25 and I seriously believed that the Lyric would be a step up from that. I'm not convinced that it's a step up from the Anthem.I believe the Lyric is light years ahead of what was available even a couple of years ago, but, having tested it against the MagMic and a studio mic, it's still not quite as good as the hype that I've read. I took the time to make the fine adjustment of the 'presence' screw and it really makes a big difference. However, even after finding the setting I believe to be best (about 1/8th of a turn less than maximum), it still sounds best with the mid-range scooped out of the sound (in order to obtain clarity/definition between notes). Looking at the difference between the mic wav files and lyric wav files, the Lyric is highly compressed and where my actual guitar sound gets louder as you go from top strings to bottom, the Lyric gets louder as you play from bottom to top.I haven't gigged with it yet but have extensively tested in my home studio and, although it ranks up there among the very best pickups/mics for acoustic guitars and the Baggs engineers deserve credit for a great advance, it falls a little short of what I expected, having read so much hype in the music press.It's a good sound but it falls a little short of being the exact sound of my guitar.

At the recommendation of a fellow guitarist I tried a Lyric. The sound is so good that I’ve installed several. From a jumbo-body baritone to a little 0-sized parlor guitar, it has worked great.

Cutting straight to the point: In my estimation, this was created to sound like an old Martin Thinline with a little more clarity on the top end. That is accomplished via this tiny condensor mic. So, if that's what you want, it's probably fine. That's my evaluation of what this could possibly be good for.Beyond that, I would only pay about $75 for this system. It's an absolute joke to try to play live with this if there is a speaker anywhere nearby. I have been playing all kinds of guitar mic / pickup systems for over 30 years, and have NEVER encountered a feedback monster as horrible as this. Forget playing anything live with any bass whatsoever. I am talking anything abouve 530 Hz! You have to cut and carve out any frequencies below that, unless you play with a feedback buster (soundhole cover,) which the stupid control panel of the pickup system gets in the way of, so you have to modify the feedback buster (grinding wheel works best) to get it to fit the soundhole.You cannot get the punchy lows that make a guitar sound like a guitar with this mic. (And let's call a spade a spade here, it's not a pickup. It's a mic)If you loop live, then forget this and move on. You can hear your vocals coming back through it in all the muffled glory on your loops, even with the feedback buster in place. You will regret installing it if you do any kind of looping.Lastly the presence control is AWFUL and should not even have been included. It adds top end glass that is really harsh and crispy. An integrated bass cut / HPF, or a sweeping tone control would have been far better.