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Old 01-24-2020, 02:23 PM
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You're unlikely to get a recording from any pickup directly that sounds as good as using the least expensive mic you can find. Unless you like the sound of a guitar thru a pickup, which most don't. They work OK for live use, but in a recording, the sound of a pickup is painfully obvious to most. The best option you have if you really want to do it is to use ToneDexter, which will make your K&Ks sound much closer to an acoustic sound. It probably still won't fool anyone, but it would be an improvement.

I did a series of experiments to see what kinds of recordings I could make with a K&K quite a while back, using different techniques. You can see here:

https://soundcloud.com/doug-young/se...-a-pickup-demo

(Warning, none of these are very good...). This was done before ToneDexter existed. I should probably update this to include some ToneDexter examples.
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