Seymour Duncan Woody enquiry

[EugeneSmasher]

Hi all,

I recently bought a secondhand Seymour Duncan Woody (it's a passive soundhole pickup, singlecoil, for acoustic guitars). I'm playing it into an electric guitar amplifier (10 watts solid state) and I have an issue with the volume.

You see, my amplifier has two-band e.q, and a gain and volume knob. I usually play my electric with the gain at 0, since I use pedals for distortion. But when I did the same (even max out the volume) there was no sound. Sound only came out (thankfully it was loud) when I started using the gain knob.

The gain knob didn't add distortion, but it really jumped up the volume. The thing is, I'm told that the volume will be the same on acoustic and electric guitar amplifiers as the difference is tone. So I'm worried that if I plug it into an acoustic guitar amplifier that doesn't have a gain knob, I'm going to have the same problem...

Please advise.. Just in case there might be a problem with the pickup (losing polarity, cable problem, etc) Thanks!

 

[LeLouch16]

Gain just controls the sensitivity of your pickup, because unlike when you're playing your electric, the controls from the amp is just passive and static. Compared to a pure electric/acoustic with a preamp(those that require 9V batteries to run), the controls goes two ways, from the preamp then to the amp gain controls

 

[EugeneSmasher]

So the gain is to give the signal a push? Because I'm worried that if I plug into an acoustic guitar amplifier, there might not be the gain knob...