Gretsch® Deltoluxe Acoustic Soundhole Pickup

I ordered this pickup for my Gretsch Jim Dandy Guitar, which is part of Gretsch's Roots Collection. I love that little guitar for authentic tone on Acoustic Blues music, which I am studying. The price of the instrument is very reasonable and this pickup goes beautifully with it. (Heads up, Amazon. At the start of August, Gretsch made a combination of a very similar parlor guitar with the same 24" scale plus this same pickup bundled together and called the "Gretsch Gin Rickey". The price is the same as that of the pickup plus that of the Jim Dandy guitar. If Amazon offers that bundled product, that instrument will have the pickup installed with the output jack in the end pin position without the purchaser paying a luthier to install it. That's what I will soon do. I'm good with tools but would rather pay to have a real tech install it in my beloved "JD".) I did a temporary installation with the jack outside of the guitar. I tried it on my Blackstar Fly 3 and my Yamaha THR5A amps on battery and with the power cords. It was WAY beyond my wildest dreams. That pickup is BEAUTIFUL! The sound is very retro with the "Tube" setting on the Yamaha acoustic amp. On clean settings it can be assertive and bell like. I'm in love with it, and it's what this great little parlor guitar deserves. You deserve it, too, so go buy one!

Was just what I was looking for, tone wise. Sounds crips with that oh so appealing vintage look/feel. Installation without drilling into your acoustic is easy enough with the “leather?” strap for the output jack that attaches to your strap button. (Don’t pay mind to how I don’t have mine attached to said button at the moment)

Great pickup option if you are looking for a more electric than acoustic sound. I am using on a Jim Dandy and I love it. There is a bit of noise which is common with a single coil, part of the sound. No feedback issues at all. I had to drill a hole to install which was a pain but the install is very easy if you already have a hole there. For the price and the look it is great. If you had to pay for install it might be a bit steep.

Easily installed on my Jim Dandy. I did drill out the end block for the jack installation. Some may not want to drill into their guitar. I use Martin Monel strings and it has that great vintage sound.

Sounds great in my Jim Dandy. Looks good too.

Looks nice and easy to install. I found that sound needs an EQ to have high quality. For just a bit more money, you can get much better quality.

This is just a pickup, so volume and tone will need to be controlled elsewhere. I initially found the B string on my guitars to be too loud relative to the other trebles, especially on the OO I wanted to keep it on. I finally swapped the high E '10 for a '13' and that helped with the balance. I also play through a Danelectro EQ pedal which lets me shape the tone a bit. UPDATE: I finally found and fixed the root cause of my weak high E! I removed the pickup cover (used a Zona saw to cut the two dots of solder that hold it to the pickup). This revealed six pole pieces, one for each string. The B pole piece is recessed to compensate for naturally loud volume on this string. HOWEVER, the pickup was positioned too far toward the bass side, and the high E pole piece was actually under the space between the B and E strings. So it was picking up lots of signal from the B string and not so much from the E. I shifted the pickup as far as I could toward the treble side of the cover and used thick superglue to reattach it - about 1/8" over. Problem solved! On a guitar with a bigger soundhole there is probably enough room to get the pickup centered under the strings. On a 00 or smaller, you may not have room. Gotta say this pickup's tone is great through my Monoprice 5W tube amp into a Celestion Greenback speaker in a closed cabinet!

I had purchased a Recording King Dirty 30's parlor guitar for an inexpensive addition to my guitars. But I found the gold foil soundhole pickup very noisy and picked up all kinds of extraneous sounds when touching the guitar. Saw that the Gretsch Jim Dandy parlor guitar used the Deltoluxe pickup. I was having a difficult time finding a pickup small enough to fit this size guitar. Bought the Deltoluxe and installed it with an input jack connection. The sound is great. No extraneous noise now. Installed the pickup as close to the neck as possible to pick up the warmest tone possible. Very pleased with the Deltoluxe.

Sonido mejor de lo esperado, ya sabemos que no tiene controles de volumen y tono pero no importa mucho, los tiene el ampli. Da un sonido muy limpio y espeso, ideal para blues. Muy recomendable

Cooles Teil

Great pickup. Fits my Jim Dandy a treat, and sounds cool.

Ottimo pickup magnetico per acustica, facile da installare e dal suono caldo e definito. Soluzione ottima per chi suona blues - rock/blues acustico. Non adatto per chi cerca un suono fedele della propria chitarra acustica. Comunque suona molto meglio di certi pickup piezo sottosella. Vi consiglio di usare corde al nickel come ad ed esempio Martin Retro Monel o simili.

Installed in an old Kay guitar.