Workshop: K&K Pickup in Resonator Uke

A customer of mine who bought a 1930s Dobro-cone resonator uke from me had me install a K&K pickup in it for live use. I almost never use K&K's specialized pickups in any instrument and prefer to use either the Twin Spot or Pure Mini (2 sensor vs 3 sensor) pickups for every application and just change the way I mount them. He'd requested I do a side-by-side tone comparison, so here are the two videos -- first the K&K direct-out (with no EQ or reverb) and then the straight acoustic:

Pretty good, right? The trick with resonator instruments is that the specialized, resonator-instrument pickups usually sound lousy because they're designed to be easy for an amateur to install. On Dobro-cone instruments, I glue my sensors underneath the middle of the spider bridge (directly below the saddles) or on the back edge of the saddle-slot/saddle-holder portion. This works a lot better than the various cone-mounted acoustic pickups which tend to sound tinny or harsh because the pickups are in much closer proximity to where the vibrations in the cone begin.

Anyhow, I could've gotten a tone much closer to the mic with just a hair of reverb added and some minor EQ tweaks, but it's not bad at all without any adjustments.