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LR Baggs Anthem SL
I just had three more of these put in some of my guitars. I highly recommend them.
Once you get the microphone portion dialed in, you can reproduce your acoustics unamplified voice extremely well through a PA or whatever. I also use a Fishman Platinum Pro to tweak the EQ to suit my tastes. Baggs has done a great job with this product.
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I've also been happy with my Anthem SL rig, but dialing it in (to suit my taste) with just the mic level screw was impossible for me. The best I could do was a tone which was simultaneously too muddy in the bass and too shrill on the treble end. I finally got satisfaction using a Zoom A3's EQ capabilities to tame both the bass end and the treble end. With the A3, I can run a six band graphic EQ and a two band parametric EQ in series. It also has an additional three band manual EQ which can be used for quick & dirty adjustments at the gig.
On the one occasion that I mistakenly left the A3 at home, I found that I could approximate my EQ adjustments with a seven band Boss graphic EQ. Of the many mono output pickups that I've tried to date, the Anthem SL has been my favorite. |
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The one thing I will say is that Baggs should have included a better adjustment knob for the SL. That tiny screw is a pain and I sometimes wonder if it's moving at all. |
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Started installing it, got super busy with work and went back to the Anthem due to a show. I want to try the Amulet but the problem is that the Anthem is working well right now so I can't justify ripping it out. Hopefully I get a new guitar that I can try it in.
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This is precisely how I was told to make the adjustment. Following those instructions on the various guitars I have the SL's in I am able to get the best balance of mic and UST. I do this at home through my mixer and powered speakers. In my Pono Round Shoulder dread which is a very bright guitar with a lot of bottom I have maybe 10% microphone and I use my Fishman Platinum Pro EQ to add some lower mids and dial back the trebles and the bass for the best possible blend. it works great. On my Eastman Dread, I can dial in approximately 35% mic and that sounds very good with a few minor tweaks of the EQ. I don't find I need to make any further changes with the mic percentage after that. I just use my EQ to get the right balance if I switch guitars during a performance and it's pretty easy. The guys at Baggs told me that in reality once you have the mic dialed in from the get-go, you shouldn't need to fool with it much after that. So far, that has been the case. I would agree that the SL works best on warmer sounding guitars. The fact is if you want a two-way system it's likely you will need some sort of EQ in my opinion.
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