LR Baggs LYRIC-C Lyric Classical Guitar Microphone

This system made by L.R. Baggs sounds so much better than the typical under saddle piezo pickup on a nylon string guitar. Is it as accurate as a studio quality microphone? No, but it is quite good... good enough for live performances for sure. I'm very satisfied with this on my custom made nylon string guitar.

I had it in a classical guitar. It was a really cheap guitar and I ruined the guitar. So I let it put in my acoustic from a professional. And in combination with the piezo pick-up, this mic sound so good. The only thing I have to complain about, to adjust the brightness there is a little srew right next to the volume wheel. Without a tool, there is no way to adjust the tone.

Very good sound good quality

First LR Baggs system in my hands. This microphone system is so good. It produces a natural sound, not a hint of the electronic sound of a piezo. Installed in a Takamine classic nylon guitar and used in our church chorus with a QSC digital mixer. No feedback even in a cathedral environment. The best thing is that it was very easy to install and use. Highly recommended.

in 50 years as a classical performer and teacher.i have endured countless amplification systems all of which produced a varying synthesis of fraudulent flat sounding frequencies few of which came within parsecs of the loveliness that exemplifies the luthiers art and craft. that paradigm was upended when i installed (with trepidation and few expectations) the baggs lyric classical. all of the accustomed brittle ugliness, squared frequencies and squashed dynamics were, thankfully, rendered a decades long assembly of unsatisfying performance memories. i am very very happy. thank you lr baggs

The good: This is the best sounding pickup (mic, actually) for classical and flamenco guitars. By many a mile. The bad: I had the steel string version installed on my triple-O copy, and after a month or so, it has sounded great but a wire harness and the battery pouch came unglued. I liked the sound so much I decided to have one installed in my 1978 Contreras. It sounded great for a week and a half, then went dead. Now I face the prospect of a likely destructive de-install and re-install on a 40 YO cedar topped guitar. I think Baggs is a little like Tesla. Really cool technology until the rocket blows up. I have a feeling getting this resolved will be a painful interaction with Baggs (at fault, IMHO), the authorized dealer who installed it (did his job right, as far as I can tell, and I consider myself fairly knowledgeable), and my Contreras which is not likely to come through this unscathed. I will consider an update to this review if Baggs "makes me whole" as the lawyers say. Otherwise, I am thoroughly disgusted. Update: Baggs replaced the pickup, and my luthier was able to remove it without damage. The new one has been in for a few weeks no problem.

I installed on my old Japanese spruce top classical guitar (Asturias) It did save a hole to drill under saddle and give it “microphone sound”. It has more natural sound than piezo pickup. But when playing with the band, it wasn’t able to cut through the mix, even hardly to hear myself from the guitar amp and therefore got the feedback frequently (turn up the volumn yo hear myself). It may sounds good in recording than the piezo, but why don’t use the external mic or iRig Acoustic for recording? It will sound way better! This soundboard pickup has heavily wear down the natural acoustic sound of the classical guitar, not to mention it will be detached easily. Perhaps the pickup (mic) is too heavy for the vibration of the soundboard - a loading effect to the system. The guitar was therefore sound very cheap acoustically. A luither friend suggested me to install the pickup between the sound hole and the bridge which reduced the loading to the soundboard and give balance tonal output (I tried many locations). The least load was under the bridge, but the tonal balance wasn’t good, not to mention it be detached easily. I finally replaced the whole system with AER AK15+ system which is a dual sources system and it sounds wayyyy better, although it wasn’t sound very microphone, it has its own characteristic sound and cut through the mix very well. Best of all, it don’t change the acoustic sound of the guitar! So, installing a mic on soundboard on classical guitar is a better idea than drilling a holes under the saddle.

From the installation to the sound it produced really amazed me.., the intallation is very easy even an unprofessional female like me can do it. If I send to music store it cost me around 450MYR (aprox. USD20). When it comes to sound production it is really great. It satisfy me and worth my money..,