Re: AXON AX 100

[Dan <danielalbertini72@yahoo.com>]

Paul you are the second fellow luthier I have had the pleasure to aquaint 
with here on L.Delight!!
 This is great we can all communicate between each other.  I have another 
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friends and
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ya!! :o)  Peace Be With
You and Yours, Daniel T. Albertini
--- paul <phaslem@wightman.ca> wrote:

> Hi Richard,
> 
> I don't have any experience with the gk3 pickup but I did play around 
> with a gk2 for a while on my Taylor. Generally I found the tracking 
> wasn't real good until I switched strings to nickle wound strings. 
> The pickup just didn't seem to like the ph. bronze acoustic strings 
> at all. After using that for nearly a year I got an inexpensive 
> electric (a used Parker p44 about 450.00) and put a Graphtech Ghost 
> system (about 650.00) in it. Wow, an amazing difference! The pickup 
> system cost me more than the guitar did but was well worth it! Since 
> that experiment I've now built a small bodied electric with no mag 
> pickups but just the Graphtech ghost pickups and a fan fret neck. 
> Very happy with it. Graphtech is located in Vancouver and very nice 
> folks to talk to. I'm sure they'd talk to you about your options.
> 
> I'll part with the Parker if anyone is interested........
> 
> 
> Paul Haslem
> 
> 
> 
> At 04:16 AM 10/31/2007, you wrote:
> >Richard Sales wrote:
> >
> >>So question - have any of you used the AXON AX 100? Has anyone used 
> >>it with an acoustic guitar? And do any of you know where to get 
> >>PICKUPS - especially the hexaphonic pickup for acoustic guitars? I 
> >>was given the AX 100 and it looks very cool. But it don't got no 
> >>pickup! Argh!!! It
> >
> >Hi Richard,
> >probably the Roland p/u is your best bet,
> >but check that the string spacing lines up first.
> >
> >You could check out the Graptech Ghost system
> >
> >http://www.graphtech.com/
> >
> >...but I think that would need guitar surgery.
> >
> >Terratec market their own p/u, but don't make any claims about it
> >being better than the Roland.
> >
> >General consensus is that the AX100 onboards sounds aren't up to much,
> >so you might want to think about some kind of synth.
> >(It's essentially a wavetable pc soundcard, the default piano sound 
> >is not so bad if you can stand digital piano, but otherwise think 
> >80's General Midi)
> >Of course, if you want to plug in a laptop an run some soft synths 
> >using Bidule
> >then you're going to enjoy yourself.
> >
> >
> >andy butler
> 
> 


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