Re: OT - acoustic pickups, etc

[Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com>]

Thanks everyone for the additional recommendations, much appreciated. I 
didn't realize the RNC had stereo ins, which along with the high 
recommendations and appropriateness for other uses in the studio might 
make it the winner. I think I have lots of choices for pickups, the 
I-Beam is a tempting one for easy installation.

The main issues to resolve are the two outputs, as I really want to keep 
the current electronics (it always gets compliments, and in the studio 
we almost always picked it, through an Avalon M5 direct box I fell in 
love with, over a Neumann condenser). I don't mind having a second 
output in the body (it'll make people wonder what I'm up to :-D ), I'll 
just need to find a good luthier.

For the headstock pickup I may just go with a cheap piezo stick-on, I'm 
not sure what to do about the cord issue but maybe I'd just attach it as 
needed.

extra thanks for the especially detailed response, Bill! I'll have to 
check out the Dtars, and also Rodrigo Y Gabriela, one would think I'd 
have heard of them by now...

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com
www.chinapaintingmusic.com

> Daryl part 2,
> I highly recommend the RNC as well. Excellent value, very transparent, 
>with
> two "modes", and it has stereo ins and outs.