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I used to have the RMC system, custom built into a Gibson ES-335, and worked directly with my luthier and Richard himself to get it working. I had the Roland hex pickup before that. I could tell a major difference in tracking, or whatever you want to call it (string plucking to synth response time?). One reason is that the RMC system pickups make direct contact with the strings...they ARE the bridge saddles/piezos, vs. the hex pickups that sit below the strings with space between them. Here is an interesting passage from an interview from McLaughlin, who used to use the Axon system, but switched to RMC at the time of this interview, in 2005. "MCLAUGHLIN: While playing with the John McLaughlin Trio in the '80s, I used the Photon MIDI interface and blended the modern sound of the synthesizer with the antique sound of a nylon-string acoustic guitar-a combination that worked amazingly well. And another amazing piece of gear was the AXON MIDI interface, which used Neural Net technology. It was a great unit for playing live, and I used it on solos while touring with Paco DeLucia and Al DiMeola, but it was very difficult to record with. You'd hear all of the glitches, and with six outputs it was hard to get just a single synth output to work cleanly. Recently I've been using a Godin Multiac guitar with an internal RMC pickup system, driving a Roland GI-20 MIDI interface, connected directly to a 1.6GHz Apple laptop running MIDI software. I've been using it a lot in the studio while recording my upcoming CD, and also live, particularly with Remember Shakti. It works like a dream, with practically no latency, and is easily the best guitar synth that I've ever tried." Kris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Warren Sirota" <wsirota@wsdesigns.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 2:50 PM Subject: RE: Robert Fripp US tour > Just my usual nitpicking, but we all know that pickups don't "track", > right? > The RMCs supposedly provide a cleaner (and maybe more separated) signal >to > the pitch-to-MIDI converter (e.g. GR33 or whatever), and that latter > device > is the thing that actually tracks the playing. > > And, also, "tracks flawlessly" is impossible. > > Best wishes, > Warren Sirota > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: David Morton [mailto:dmorton@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 2:36 PM >> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com >> Subject: Re: Robert Fripp US tour >> >> >> On 1/19/06, Suit & Tie Guy <erwill@suitandtieguy.com> wrote: >> > On Jan 19, 2006, at 1:27 AM, Luis Angulo wrote: >> > > i am curious about his synth pickup...cant really see >> > > here, is he using the standard GK-2 or RMCs? >> > >> > what are/is RMCs? >> >> http://www.rmcpickup.com/ >> >> Most commonly found on Godin or Brian Moore guitars. >> >> They office vastly improved tracking performance over the >> Roland GK-2 (IMHO, of course). >> >> D >> (with a GK-2 equipped Gretsch, and two RMC equipped Godins, >> one fretted one fretless) >> > >