Alternative to Miking acoustic Guitars

Subject: RE: Alternative to Miking acoustic Guitars
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 17 Jun 99 - 03:19 PM

Richard,

We had a thread on pick-ups a few months back that may prove helpful to you. CLICK HERE.

Good luck!

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Alternative to Miking acoustic Guitars
From: Tony Burns
Date: 17 Jun 99 - 12:25 PM

Perhaps Rick Fielding will offer his experience here. He was using a small mic and velcro for a while but I haven't seen him use if for a few months now. I haven't asked him why he stopped but he should have some useful insight.

Subject: RE: Alternative to Miking acoustic Guitars
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 17 Jun 99 - 11:51 AM

Martin Carthy uses and recommends a little powered condenser lapel mic from Tandy (Radio Shack in the USA). It costs about GBP 10. The little jack plug is cut off and it is hardwired to a tailpin jack socket. The microphone end goes inside the table right by the soundhole under the top E string, against the brace at that point, pointing across the body towards the bottom E string. The battery compartment goes anywhere convenient near the soundhole.

Feedback is a potential problem but he says it is controllable so long as the monitor is beside your left foot pointing diagonally to your right (ie facing the main neck/body joint of the guitar, not straight at the top).

There is one in his famous Martin. I haven't heard it, 'cos he played our club unplugged, but he says it sounds like a guitar and not something twangy and electric.

At that price you can put one in each guitar!

Subject: Alternative to Miking acoustic Guitars
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 17 Jun 99 - 11:37 AM

A while back I started a thread about eliminating feedback while playing acoustic guitars through a microphone. My sister is a performer who switches between three acoustic guitars, she does a lot of blues in her shows and plays some bottleneck slide pieces. She also plays a lot of finger picking and flat picking pieces.

Does anyone know of pick up device that she will be able to alternate between these guitars? It would have to be easy to change the device between songs. She would like to retain the acoustic sound of these guitars, not create a pseudo/electric sound. She has a relatively limited budget, $100-150 U.S. Are our we asking for too much?