Re: OT: amplifying a national steel dobro guitar

["L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

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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