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Hello, I have a beautiful Avalon 12string that sounds awesome, but would like some advice on sound hole pickups & strings please. Currently, the guitar is fitted with my preferred  80/20 bronze strings and a Fishman “Rare Earth” active  sound hole pickup. The issue I have is that, being a 12 string, when plugged in, the plain steel octave strings ring noticeably louder than their wound bronze…