The raw recordings on the pickup comparison page are really just a starting point. Even recordings made with good microphones in a professional studio is likely be EQ'd, and would probably also have reverb or other processing added. To demonstrate what you might really do with one of these pickups if you made a recording with them, I've tried to tweak a couple of the examples myself. You might choose a different sound, but the examples below show what I might do. If you have better equipment, better ears, a good mastering engineer, etc, you can most certainly do better. Unlike the raw samples, where I've tried to introduce as little bias as I can, these samples are entirely biased and flavored by own taste and ability (or inability) to EQ and mix. Also, if you want to get a good recording sound, anything's fair game, so in some cases I've done things like create pseudo-stereo effects from mono pickups and so on. All this could theoretically be done live with some amount of rack effects.  I've probably gone a little heavier on reverb than I'd actually like, in attempt to inject some life into the pickup tracks.

These are my latest attempts at processing a few tracks:

Doug Kennedy's pickup demos at www.fingerpick.com inspired me to get a bit more aggressive with my EQing and processing. The following files have a lot of different things done to them, and I'm still experimenting. See what you think, and let me know if you like these or think I've just made a mess :-)

EQing the Schertler DynG

This pickup/mic clearly has a microphonic sound, but with no EQ, it seems to sound a bit boxy. Here's a couple of steps I took to see how it could sound with some EQ on a Taylor 914. There's no reverb or anything else on these tracks. The EQ'd track simply has some bass boost and a lot of treble boost. The stereo simulation is simply the mono EQ'd track, copied to both sides of a stereo track, with a 10 ms delay added to one side.

An earlier attempt:

For the demos below, I did a few basic things, approximately the same on each track, but with settings adjusted to taste. Note that these are the same tracks on the pickups test page, just processed after the fact.