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about our products;

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good comments and disregarded the critical ones". Our
response to that logic is this; We welcome you to
google our products, look in any forum out there. Look
long and far...you will not read a negative thing about us
or our products from anyone who has tried them!

Hi just to say I received and fitted this a few days ago and it is
fantastic. I am a pretty 'serious' player I suppose you could say and
took the decision to remove the vastly more expensive 'Headway'
undersaddle pickup from my flamenco guitar as it was just
impossible (After 3 years of trying!!) to get a properly balanced
sound. Your system I fitted myself with an hour and it plays
perfectly balanced with no further messing, and sounds miles better
at a fraction of the previous cost.

I did already buy the 'other brand' of these 'disc' pickups for my
acoustic guitar so I knew they were good. Yours sounds exactly the
same for less than half the price.

Thank you JJB!
Julian Ward.
( England!)

I really enjoyed how simple and fun the installation was to do. The
VTP-200 system with the end pin jack upgrade is very convienient,
it looks great and I am very impressed with the sound. I also
appreciate your attention to detail. You provide a well made
product. I did have to move the piezos a few times with double
sided tape to find the tone I like but the experimenting is half the
fun! I am very happy with the results! The VTP-200 really picks up
all the resonance in the sound board. It sounds full and clean with
PLENTY of brightness. I even tend to roll it off a touch. Thank you
Jessie, Scott Clarke.

"Dear musicians, I have just received my JJB 330 for my Taylor
today. There was some delay because of Christmas and New year
(I live in Canada), but Jessie has been comprehensive. He is a
great seller and would have found an arrangement with me if
anything went wrong. Anyway... I have installed the pickup (easy to
install, I am not a handy man at all!), tried it in an amp and wow, I
don't even have words to describe the sound. It was natural, as if I
played it unplugged! Usually, I don't really like playing with my
guitar plugged as there is some "electric" sound. But now, finger
style picking, palm mute... : the sound is reproduced with
perfection. Go ahead, for $50 + free shipping, it is way better than
the other "brand names"!!!. Thanks again Jessie!" Ento.

Jessie,
I am loving the Prestige 330 pickup that I just installed in my Taylor
DN3 Guitar. When I preformed with K&K PWM's, people commented
on my sound and I gave them credit. I plan to let fellow musicians
know how happy I am with your pickups as well.
You have a great product that captures the natural sound of your
instrument. I have a very percussive style. The K&K's at times
tended to give me a strange almost muffled beat, "like I was
slapping the body of my guitar". Last night I played the same
original songs that I have heard that muffled sound before with the
K&K PWM, on the same sound system, with the same host running
the PA and I did not hear that muffled beat at all with your pickups.
You won me over!
Hawk Reynolds

Hi, Jessie-just a note to tell you how happy I am with the pickups
I've bought from you. I installed the latest one in a 20-odd year old
Fender Concord acoustic of my sister's, and it actually
sounds better than my more expensive guitar in which I installed a
Shadow (marketed by Gibson)top-sensing piezo 2 years ago. And it
was less than half the price! I don't know how you do it, but
keep it up-you're on my favorites list.

I just wanted to let you know I received my order (PPS200) today.
Thank you!!! I had an old Alvarez guitar that didn't have a pickup
but sounded great by itself. Now I can plug it in and it
doesn't lose any of its great acoustic sound. Great product!!! It is
so simple to install too. Anyway just wanted to let you know how
much I like your product and look forward to doing more
business with you in the future. Thanks, A Very Satisfied Customer,
Randal Richards

Dear Jessie, I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your
pickups and what they have done for my guitars. Your pickups are
by far the best on the market and they are the only ones that
I use on all of my guitars. They are very much a part of the Red
Dog sound that cannot be achieved any import or domestic pickups
available on the market. My customers are proud to
know that your pickups are both completely hand-wired and made
in America. In today’s changing times, our economy needs more
qualified craftsman such as yourself and your
product is invaluable to the music industry. Through the good times
and the bad you have been there for me and made every single
pickup as if it was your most important one and I firmly
believe it’s the reason for my company’s success. You are the
backbone of Red Dog Guitars and because my guitars are built
around your pickups is the reason my guitars are so great. I have
tried everything on the market from Mighty Mite to K&K, all the way
up to overpriced Fishman and nothing delivers such a full range in
both sound and signal. I look forward to many more
years of both a close friendship and product alliance as I’m in firm
belief that your pickups are the BEST! John McNair, Red Dog
Guitars 2006

I have the Artist Prestige 330 installed in a handmade dreadnought
which I made with Palo Escrito back and sides and a stiff sitka
spruce top. This past weekend I took this guitar to Guitar Center
and plugged it into a variety of acoustic amps, ranging in price from
$99 to a $999 Fender tower amp. I also plugged in a variety of
Taylors, Martins and Breedloves of value up to $3000. The opinion
of the two of us playing and listening was that only one guitar we
tried sounded as good as mine plugged in, and that was a $999
Breedlove. I have to say that this pickup system, simple and
inexpensive as it is, stood up and surpassed to our ears, any other
guitar/pickup system we tried.
I believe Jessie has a pickup here to be reckoned with. Good job
Jessie, and thank you from a satisfied customer. I will be building a
dreadnought using Macauaba wood for the person who was at
Guitar Center with me, and he wants your Artist Prestige 330 in his
guitar too!
Kevin

I installed the vtp 200 in my 12 string S12 seagull ,your product
produces the guitars natural voice with excellence ,I am very very
amazed and pleased with your product and highly recommend it
and will take my axe to my local luthier to introduce him to your
product as well. For the record ,I am plugged into a brand new
acoustic Ag30 amp ,and your vtp200 , incredible acoustics at an
incredible price.You are a stand up guy and would like to thank you
very much. I,ll Be back for more.
Robert A Cook

Hi Jessie
I installed it within minutes of receiving the package. The
installation was fairly straightforward. The hardest part, at least
emotionally, was drilling a hole in my favorite guitar. However, the
end result exceeded my expectations, it sounds amazing. Thank
you for your outstanding customer relationship. Your
communications with me throughout the research process prior to
making my purchase was far more than I’d expected or received
from anyone else.
Regards, Ian

Jessie,
Just a quick line to tell you how satisfied I am with the VTP 200 with
end-pin you made for me. I installed it on a 30+ year old Conn. But,
I screwed up and placed them too close to the bridge
pins which caused the A and B strings to be in contact with the
piezos when restrung. As you can imagine I had a huge string
vibration rattle. I was afraid I had ruined the piezos. I then
decided to try to 'UN' super glue the piezos. I dropped a little paint
thinner at the base of the piezo and slowly worked it free (obviously
this was a little tricky). They appeared to be intact so I
went ahead and remounted them (further from the bridge pins). My
guitar now sounds great! I figured I had ruined them but they held
up against my ineptitude. Thank you again for a great
product, John

Jessie
Just wanted to say how happy i am with the PPS-200. I've finally
found a pickup system that brings out the Acoustic in my 1974
Ovation Balladeer [1111-6, straight acoustic]. The key is
placement options! Thanks Jessie for giving us Options! We've
done business in past and I have been quite satisfied! You are a
good and honorable man. Gus Wanner

Hi Jessie, just wanted to drop a note and say thanks for your great
service. I had a guitar with a fishman sound hole pickup and traded
it off because it sounded too tinny. I took a chance
on ordering your pickup mainly because of the reviews I had read
from other people. All I can say now is WOW. I will show and tell
everyone I know about your product and service.
Thanks again from a very satisfied customer. Ray

Hi Jesse, just writing to let you know how i got on with your Prestige,
self-fit pick-up. I followed the instructions from your web site. Very
easy to follow and understand...It took now time at all! I
used a 13mm wood bit, on a very slow speed, and Super Glue Gel.
It was sooo simple! The sound is just superb... can't believe how
effective it is. I'm running my guitar through a Fender BXR
25 Bass practice amp... I'm a bass player, what can i say. I like full
bassy sound! It sounds quite stunning! I'm very very surprised!
You're producing top quality equipment at budget prices! The
rock box compliments the over all very well. I love my 'cheapo'
Samick 12 string and now it sounds even better! WOW! In this time
of economic depression it's really great to find a success story...
and boy should you be successful! You really are producing a
great product at an unbelievable price! I may just purchase a few
more from you as future protection against your success and
obvious price hike! LOL! Thank you Jessie, you Rock!
Gary 'Mitch' Mitchell

I wanted to say thanks for the great service! I used the pickup last
night at a show and it sounded amazing. It was very natural and it
had plenty of output. You do a hell of a job, this is my 3rd
pickup I have bought from you and I will be back for more. I
currently have 1 guitar, 2 wooden ukes, 2 banjo ukes. all with your
pickups installed. They all sound great, as always.
Thanks again!
Adam Townsend

Hi Jessie,
I received my pickup in the mail today and I am absolutely thrilled
with it. The quality is outstanding. The price was incredible and the
customer support that you gave was first rate and I can't
compliment you enough for that. You just don't find that these days.
I will be sure to tell my musician friends about your web site and
hope that I can send some business your way. I don't spend much
money but if the need arises I will certainly be a repeat customer.
Let me reiterate; I am absolutely thrilled with my purchase and I
mean THRILLED! Can't thank you enough. I really appreciate the
price to quality ratio. I almost feel guilty. :) I am pretty financially
deficient so it really means a lot to
me. Sorry to ramble but I'm really impressed.
Thanks again,
Jeff

Jessie, I just wanted to thank you again and to let potential
customers know what an honest and straight-forward business
person you are. I had a slight problem with an acoustic pick-up
that I purchased off the E-Bay site and it was solved quickly and
over and above satisfaction. Looking forward to dealing with you in
the future.
Thanks!
Clell (Ohio)

Recieved my PPS-200 today. Took all of 1 hour to install. I made a
cardstock jig , using the two outside peg holes as reference,
marking string and saddle placement, then cut to fit the internal
bracing. I used some packing tape rolled to hold the piezo's in
place (after some thought as to where I really wanted to place the
transducers) and a couple of thin strips of tape to hold the
transducers so the wires would be out of the way of the peg holes. I
was able to glue both piezo's in place at the same time, with relative
confidence that they were where I wanted them.
Then only minor panic as I drilled a hole through the side of my
Jasmine (not a bad guitar for a cheap one). New strings, a quick
tune, and POW! A nice acoustic sound, (and passive to boot)
very close to what my guitar sounds like unamplified, with flat EQ,
even with my early 80's Peavey TKO 80 I keep plugged in as a
practice amp. I have nice, even output on all strings (just a tad
weak on the high E, should have shifted just a tiny bit to that side,
but this is being very critical as to my installation) Thanks for being
honest about your products. I was totally impressed with
the true sound, and for a fraction of the price of the other, bigger
names. Eleven stars for good sound and incredible price.
James T Martin

I have done a few local craft fairs with my Sweet Baby Ray Cigar
Box Guitars with your pickups and people are amazed at the sound
they produce. Since I switched to your pickups the
difference is like night and day. Thanks again. Ray

Dear Jessie
I got the three head pick-ups and have fitted it/them to my guitar, I
have taken some pics (as the guitar is very unusual) and will send
them to you when I am able. The guitar is a Skylark
acoustic with what is called a double funnel construction. That is,
it has no soundhole but is open as the neck/ cutaways and
incorporates high grade bracing. The body also incorporates a
built in baffle which enhances bass response and gives a very big
sound. The sound is magic with the pickups. Ian M

Hi Jessie,Just wanted you to know that I installed the pickups last
night and strung her back up today. I'm very impressed!. Great
sound,easy install and exactly what I was looking for. You have
definitely hit my favorite sellers list. Thanks for all of the advise and
guidance. The project worked out great. I'm considering doing the
same thing to my 12 string Seagull(straight acoustic) that I've
had for so many years. You gave me a great product for my use at
a great price and invaluable advise..Thanks..David

I really wanted to let you know that I finally got some time to really
play and have semi-permanently affixed the original single I got
from you to my viola. Man, this pickup is cool! I can't
believe the gain you get from your design. I don't even need a
preamp. In fact, there is so much gain that I am tweaking my
settings to compensate for feedback. Yours just sounds so much
better than the other pickups I have gotten. I can tell you that once
I decide which instruments I want to permanently electrify, I will
probably get a couple of more units. You can count on the
fact that I am telling everybody I know who would like to add a
pickup to their acoustic instruments, that they should contact you.
Way to go! I need to stock up so I have some extras when
you get famous and have to start charging $100 a piece for them. :-
) I now have an incredible, newly upgraded electric mandolin that
sounds awesome. It is as good or better than an
original equipment electric mandolin. Thanks again, Brian Surks

Hi, Jessie, I have been remiss on getting some sort of feedback to
you other than the one-liners allowed me. I have gotten several of
your products and, obviously, that should speak quite well of
them, but there's more than that. I am very impressed with them.
Great output and clarity. I have not had ANY feedback problems
with them (and I have cranked them up!). I have installed most in
acoustic Drednaughts. I have had MANY nice comments about the
sound of my guitars. After some
experimentation I have a couple, three, different places I have
mounted them with great satisfaction in the tonal reproduction of
the guitars. I've referred them to some friends here and installed
a couple in other people's guitars. Everyone is quite impressed. I
still have a couple more guitars I haven't installed pickups in, yet.
They wil probably get yours. Kudos to you on your great
products. They are cleanly made, and well-constructed. Many
thanks to you!!
Lee Muller chickenpicker

Wanted to express my thanks for one amazing pickup. Been out of
town and returned to pickup waiting for me. Thanks for going out of
your way to make it right for me. This will work great for
me on my mandos. It's by far much better than I expected. I was
blown away on how good it sounds. So much so I just ordered
another external pickup. No modifications on this one. Just as it is,
going on my Martin. Left positive feedback. I'm very glad I stumbled
on your auction. Thanks!
JOHN AMANN

Thank you for your recent advice on the dual piezo pickup for my
Admira spanish guitar. I have had the pickup fitted for a week now
and just wanted to say a big thank you for such a great product. I
have been playing acoustic guitars for 30+ years and have some
expensive systems fitted to other guitars but these pickups sound
just as good. On the nylon strung guitar the sound is so natural
and full and there is no noise pickup from the rest of the
soundboard.(on some transducers you get the sound of your
sleeve rubbing on the guitar). I will be ordering some more of these
to replace some under-saddle piezo's in the nearfuture. Only took
me about 10 minutes to fit too.
Thanks very much,
John Wastnidge

Thanks a lot! This will be my 3rd guitar powered by JJB
transducers. I really like what you guys are doing with your
company. I play in a semi-pro working band and have at least some
influence locally on musician opinion, and I have been talking JJB
up in the last year or so as a solid new company with a great
products at very musician-friendly prices. Thanks so much!
Dan Liechty

Your dual transducers are a great link between my beloved Guild
that I've had for 31 years, and my Fender amp. I wanted a true
acoustic sound and I love it. Thanks for your great product
and service. Charlie Baker

Received the pickup today. I tried it on a dulcimer and am pleased
with the results. I am a dulcimer builder and am considering
incorporating a pickup into some of them. I believe your product is
what I have been looking for as the acoustic sound is not altered.
Billy Walker

Hey Jessie,
I just wanted to say I put the PPS-200 in my 12-string guitar and
the sound is simply awesome. You are putting out a high quality
product, and a great company to deal with. I will be coming to you
for future equipment for my guitars.
Thanks,
Jeff