Andoer Cherub WCP-60V Clip-on Pickup Pick-up for Violin with 1/4" Jack 2.5M Cable Compact Professional, Multicolor

Pretty impressed with this pick up, great for when you don't want a pick up permanently mounted on your fiddle.🎻

I want to get a word of caution out there right away, before gushing over this pickup. I have purchased four of these pickups, and decided to keep two of them. One of them arrive with a broken tip (the rubber-tipped portion that goes into the soundhole / f hole, and is hidden from view) so I sent it back. The other one that I returned sounded pretty terrible, and I am certain that it was not due to user error. Even the two good ones that I decided to keep sound different. So -- keep trying if you don't get a good one on your first purchase! I am lucky that the first one was really good, because I probably would have returned it and not gotten another if the first one was not a good one. That being said, this little pickup is amazing for the price. I was planning to purchase a used electric violin on eBay for somewhere between $325 and $550, when I read a violinist blog entry about the best violin pickups. There were a bunch of pickups priced around $125 to $250, and then this thing. Since it had free returns, I figured it was worth investigating. I got the first one, put it on my violin, and plugged it into my Fishman Loudbox Mini. I was happily surprised. With just a little bit of tweaking on the amp, I was able to get it sounding pretty great. I plugged the violin into a looping pedal, and was able to listen to just the sound of the violin coming through the amp (it is hard to get a true sense of the sound while playing live, with the violin right next to my ear). I was looking for a pickup because I regularly play violin at our church, and we were using a little mic on it. But this mic picked up everything nearby (drums being the biggest offender), so it was pretty difficult to get a good sound. I tested the pickup out on stage, and the sound tech said that the pickup sounded better than the microphone (a Shure KSM137, I think - a $300 microphone), even when I was just playing by myself. I can't recommend this highly enough. Just be patient, and try out the mic on different areas of your instrument. I've attached the sweet spot on my violin. If it doesn't sound like the instrument, then it may be a bad pickup. The one that sounded bad for me was obviously missing high end. Another note: these types of pickups are sensitive to touch. A light tap on the pickup or cable can be heard through whatever might be amplifying it. If you don't move around much, then you should be fine. But it's just something to keep in mind.

I purchased two of these pickups to have as backups for my viola. Per another reviewer, I added furniture pads to the pickups and found that they are not noisy at all, unless tapped. The two violinists in my quartet ended up using both of the pickups for a gig that we were amplified for, and they worked just fine. The sound guy mentioned that they were "struggling" a little bit, but I'm not sure the audience noticed or cared. They work in a pinch! If you are looking for a permanent pickup to use for every gig, I would suggest spending the money on a nicer one. If you are casually using these for home use or as backups like I do, then they are great for the price.

Parfait! Je l'utilise autant pour ma harpe que pour mon violoncelle

No good can't turn up the sound.