Ortega OSWS100 Wireless System

You can probably tell from reading that I don't write product reviews but here goes. Admittedly, I only just purchased this therefore I cannot provide any meaningful feedback relating to length of ownership things like durability, etc. But when I saw this reviewed a few months ago I was very intrigued and waited patiently for stock to arrive and decided to take the plunge. Perhaps it's just a lack of personal skill, but I was never satisfied with my existing DAW recording method (a combination of magnetic pickup and microphone) - I just couldn't get the right balance and the fiddly setup took the pleasure out of playing my acoustic. This pickup looked like a plug and play solution for me. It came pre-charged out of the box so I eagerly fitted it and was happily strumming within moments. The clean recorded sound was noise free (even close up to my PC rig) and after that it was just a matter of adding plugins to suit my personal tonal preferences (there is a tone adjustment on the pickup but I decided on DAW plugins for increased flexibility). One item of note though - my fretboard does slightly protrude into the soundhole, but with only slight distortion of the pickup mount it nevertheless fitted ok and there was no detrimental impact. Is the pickup a transparent reproduction of my guitar's sound? Well, I'm not qualified to say for certain but I wouldn't expect anything costing £100 to be capable of that anyway. Which is not to say that I am unhappy with the sound from this pickup - far from it. It provides a level of quality and convenience which makes me want to pick up the guitar more often and for me that's worth it.

I bought the Ortega OSWS100 wireless systems for two of my acoustic guitars - I didn't want to drill into the body at all to install an under-saddle pickup.

They work perfectly with excellent sound quality and were each fitted within about 10 minutes. I had to cut the outer ring on both units to fit around small neck projections into the sound holes - but because the unit is made of rubber, this was easily and neatly achieved using sharp scissors.

They pair instantly, sound great, and I didn't have to risk any damage to the guitars. Fully recommend for 100mm sound holes"