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Schatten HFN - Are You Kidding Me!!!???
I’m still testing the HFN in the McPherson Sable. I like the acoustic tone better without the Element. It’s a close call, but I’m giving the edge to the HFN for simplicity. The only consideration is that I think HFN works much better as an active system with Tone control. I have to roll off most of the treble on the tone wheel to get the amplified sound to sound almost exactly like the guitar. Moreover, the performance is better at high volumes. Like Aaron has said many times, HFN may not be an Anthem killer, but it’s a very nice system if it works with your guitar.
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I am very interested in the Soloist but as mentioned, it's going to be a major investment for me. I don't love the fact that it has piezo tone to it and that it's closer to bone in terms of tone (my Taylor typically sounds a bit too bright with bone), but it seems to improve on the standard UST design. Oddly enough, I have often found UST pickups to sound a bit thin at times. I am hoping that the Soloist has a bit more of a full tone. I do know that players like Vince Gil and members of the Eagles are now using the Soloist so there must be something special going on with this pickup. |
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The Grace preamps do have more EQ control, and with Felix you get a 2nd channel, so if that's useful to you, then it would be worthwhile. But a lot of what people are trying to do with more EQ - trying to make a pickup sound better, ToneDexter does as part of the training process. BTW, full disclosure - I do do this, sort of. I've been using the Two Notes CabM IR-Loader pedal in the effects loop of a Sunnaudio preamp/DI. I create IRs from ToneDexter and load them into the CabM. So I'm using ToneDexter's sound processing, but not TD directly. Why? Partly because it's smaller, partly because I just want the TD effect, but don't need the other stuff. The Sunnaudio preamp combines my pickup and mic in a way no other preamp can do, and with that, the DI out, and other stuff on the physical ToneDexter box are extraneous. But I could just use ToneDexter in the same way, just taking up more room. So it does work to put TD in the effects loop, I just wouldn't do it with the idea that somehow you'll automatically get a better sound with Alix+ToneDexter than with ToneDexter alone, unless there's some feature of Alix or Felix that you need.
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Another pickup I've been impressed with is Yamaha's UST. Unfortunately you can't seem to get them unless you buy a Yamaha guitar with one. I'm also not a UST fan but compared to the other popular UST's out there (Fishman Matrix, LR Baggs Element, etc.) I think Yamaha's is a cut above. It ranks up there in clarity with the Barbera IMO. |
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But yes, you could certainly place an EQ in ToneDexter's effects loop. I liked the idea that I could have 5 bands of semi-parametric EQ on the CabM - plus there's more ability to EQ and manipulate the IR in their software. In reality, I've yet to use that feature. I just have straight ToneDexter IRs.
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One thing I've experimented with, and I've seen a few others mention it here, is training ToneDexter by recording the pickup and mic and then using the playback as the training input. That way I can EQ the mic to fool ToneDexter into thinking my mic'd sound is different. You could train it to remove that frequency, if it doesn't by itself. I don't bother with this anymore, my results are fine with the simple direct approach, but it does work. Also, presumably you're plugging into something, which might have EQ as well. My mixer has more fully-parametric EQ that I'd ever use, and especially if I have a sound person who's hearing things from out front, they can adjust what the audience hears better than I can. Incidentally, I also hear a certain harshness to the HFN, some sort of mid-range edge I don't care for, which is why I don't use it. (Tho I have never tried it with ToneDexter) But it's different for everyone.
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The HFN is the best pickup I’ve used so far for the type of guitar I play and how I play it. It does work well with the TD, but it is not as dramatic as using an Element or even K&K. Pickups are just so different from one another. I’m glad we have so many to choose from. There are so many things to consider when finding a match.
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