Re: OT - acoustic pickups, etc

[Dan <danielalbertini72@yahoo.com>]

Man I just love my B-band system (Made in Finland) on my Cordoba I 
repaired and rebuilt with some
custom appointments. It is the bomb!!!  I have not had a pickup besides my 
Sunrise soundhole p.u.
that is so incredibly transparent.  In that I will explain that it adds 
slim and none detectable
to normal human ears anyway as to electronic interference/coloration.  I 
pump them into a Yamaha
Magicstomp, take the stereo out into a Alesis Midiverb to the input of my 
boomerang phrase sampler
and output to my two new Ultrasound Amplifiers.  One for left channel One 
for right.  Im sure
there are better ways to route electronics and amps and I will certainly 
admit I have a lot of
learning to do!  Stay loopy over the Christmas season through the new year 
to be :o) 
--- Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com> wrote:

> Forgive this wholly off-topic query, though of course it does concern 
> equipment that will be eventually used in looping...
> 
> I like the onboard piezo pickup in my Takamine nylon-string, but I'm 
> starting to do more banging on the guitar body these days and the piezo 
> doesn't really transmit these sounds very well. An external mic does 
> fine with this of course, but I want something suitable for onstage use 
> and I hate having to hold more or less still in front of a mic. I've 
> gotten a recommendation (thanks Michael!) on the Baggs Element, but am 
> wondering if anyone's had experience with anything else, especially with 
> having two different pickup systems in one guitar. I'd like to keep my 
> current setup and add to it (maybe I can split the output at the endpin 
> with a TRS jack...?).
> 
> Also, I'm making more use of the harmonics that appear between the fret 
> and the headstock, which of course aren't heard by standard-mounted 
> pickups. I know Fred Frith had a guitar with a pickup mounted up on the 
> headstock, though his was huge (and appeared on an electric) and was 
> done quite some time ago, I'm hoping there are some kind of developments 
> here since.
> 
> Finally, I'm looking for a really really good portable (i.e., stompbox, 
> tabletop, half-rack) compressor that's well-suited to acoustic guitar, 
> that is, helps to even out the natural sounds and doesn't produce any of 
> the "breathing" effect - I'm not looking for extreme compression, just 
> something to musically accentuate the harmonics and even out the big 
> spike. The Keeley compressor is raved about frequently, but I'm curious 
> if anyone has had experience with it on acoustic guitar.
> 
> Daryl Shawn
> www.swanwelder.com
> www.chinapaintingmusic.com
> 
> 



      
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