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Originally Posted by jonfields45
I think Doug Young has pointed this out many times in the past, that a direct recording of a pickup can sound pretty marginal where the same pickup into a sound system and live room (or reverb) can sound pretty good. Add the background noise of a restaurant gig and you'll understand why so many live guitarists are using the UST shipped with their guitar.
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Originally Posted by AeroUSA
I agree, a direct recording of a pickup proves nothing...
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A direct recording is a compromise in an accurate representation of what a pickup sounds like but at least other variables such as a room, a mic and its position, speakers don't come into the equation.
Direct recordings won't tell you how a particular sound will translate in a live setting but it definitely gives you an idea what a pickup sounds like.
On his website, Doug posts a direct signal for a reason.
Fortunately, in this thread the OP cleverly
included both a direct and a room recording.
I much prefer to have a demo of a direct recording rather than a demo (quite common on YouTube) when someone wants to show a pickup or a preamp or an amp/PA and records a room sound with an acoustic sound of a guitar
bleeding into the final signal. That's why I placed the speaker in a different room from where I was with my guitar for the sample in my first post in this thread.