Re: Guitar Pickup

[phaslem@wightman.ca]

I didn't really follow that discussion, but my own personal fav is the  
Shertler dyn g. It looks like a soundboard pickup but is actually a  
moving coil mic. Kinda pricey but well worth the sound.

Paul Haslem
Ontario, Canada
www.dulcify.ca




Quoting Scott Kellogg <bassnut@gmail.com>:

> Sorry if this has been discussed ad nauseum, but what's the guitar
> pickup all the cool kids are using these days?  I have a Seagull cedar
> acoustic that plays really nicely and has a pleasant-but-average tone.
> I'm interested in processing the signal before it gets to my looper,
> and would like to be able to pick up taps and other percussive slaps on
> the body of the instrument.
>
> While we're on the topic, what you think of the new crop of 'acoustic
> guitar' processors that are on the market (e.g. the Fishman stuff,
> Korg, Boss, etc.)?  My original plan was to loop with my electric
> basses, but my singer-songwriter groove is coming back, and maybe the
> guitar will be in my path as well as a bass.  Then again, an acoustic
> guitar with an octaver makes good basslines.
>
> TIA,
> Scott
> --
> "However, faced with a fixed set of options, you are forced to   
> employ those special, mystical powers — imagination and creativity."
> - Paul Nagle