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Old 10-29-2008, 07:06 AM
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Originally Posted by andrewrg View Post
There's a good demo of the Fishman Aura system (as fitted to the Martin) on the Fishman site. As, essentially, a modelling system it sounds the best to my ears and really goes a long way in eliminating the awful piezo 'quack' associated with UST's.
The Aura is NOT a modeling system, the Mama Bear for example is.......

A guitar modeling system tries to make an instrument sound like something else, make a small body sound like a dread, or 12 string, for example.

Imaging attempts to make a guitar sound like it would through high end microphones (no more, no less), it does not try to alter the sound and make a mahogany OM sound like a rosewood dread, that would be modeling.

Fishman images are excellent and a little goes a long way in the "blend", I used way too much years ago when I got my first Aura equipped guitar, you need to pay some dues to get the most out of the system.
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