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Re: OT: amplifying a national steel dobro guitar
wow cool man i have to check the Shertler portable mic
out,i remeber u telling me about last summer when i
was at your place in Santa Cruz , gonna have a look!
thanx bud
Luis
--- Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
> Hey Luis,
>
> I wasn't trying to admonish about the OT
> thing.............just keeping
> people on track for the
> sake of all. Periodically, we just have to
> reinforce the OT postings
> netiquette and the
> 'please for the sake of god, don't include every
> post in your post so the
> daily digest doesn't
> come in 8 times a day for lack of bandwidth"
> problem that continually
> occurs here..........lol
>
>
> About the amplification. I have to say, that
> though I disagree with many
> things that Bob Brozman
> has to say about world music (and agree with more
> than as many as well)
> that he is
> the king of this instrument and his wholel life
> revolves around sounding
> fantastic on sound
> systems all over the planet (good and bad).
>
> His solution of the Neumann K150 is the bomb.
> YOu can't believe how good he sounds in concert.
>
> I know it's a pricey mic.
>
> that being said and done, the Shertler portable
> mic that sticks on ,
> convertably, to any
> instrument at all has changed my life. I'm touring
> with one and I'll show
> it to you
> when we play together later this month.
>
> You can put it on a frame drum, a kalimba, a
> cajon, a national steel, a
> violin,
> just about anything that resonates with very , very
> little feedback and a
> nice
> rich sound.
>
> I'ts NOT a piezo styled pick up..............the mic
> is just below the
> surface (by a thumb nails distance)
> of a small round metal housing. You put a puddy
> (that doesn't not harm any
> surfaces coming off the instrument
> but sticks firmly in place. You fashion the putty
> into a circle and press
> the pickup straight down
> onto the instrument (you need a fairly flat or
> slightly curved surface) and
> the puddy seals all around the
> mic as you put down so it is inside a chamber.
>
> I took a large body 12 string steel guitar ,
> amplified it with the
> schertler and put it up right in front of
> my pa speakers without feedback!!!!
>
> I love it. It won't be quite the fidelity of
> the Neumman k150 and if
> given the chance I might not
> use it in a fine studio recording, but for live it
> rocks the Casbah.
>
> I'll show it to you. They have normal string and
> ethnic string models.
> I believe I have the ethnic string model , though I
> think the normal string
> model probably picks up more bass which would have
> been nice.
>
> pricey ($500 USD?) but completely worth it if you
> are a
> multiinstrumentalist like yourself.
>
>
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