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Last year, the Schatten HFN systems were the soup-du-jour on AGF but now many players have expressed their dissatisfaction with the various HFN systems' amplified tone. Currently, Dazzo is the new kid on the block and I haven't tried one of Teddy's systems yet but may do so someday. My feeling is that most quality systems can get good results if properly installed, and utilized. By the way, I'm considereing buying a new Adamas GT Cutaway Deep Contour (3 dB acoustic volume variation in tone across fingerboard) because it's Ovation pickup and Op Pro Studio preamp will sound as good as anything out there while enabling tweaking its amplified tone to just about anything you want. How do I know this? Been there and done it!
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Check out my live stream from today. I wasn’t particularly happy with my performance it I was very happy with the tone. This is a Goldplus that is the hardest base-tone to start with! I can’t wait to try Thai pedal with the Trance. I think it’s going to be good!
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Very helpful initial review, thanks Aaron.
Still tweaking the Optima Air but now I think I may have to try the LR Baggs for an A/B comparision through my rig.
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They Optima Air can load IR’s which is cool and it has a gorgeous reverb. They are quite different beasts.
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The next Martin I get will most likely have a Trance.
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Agreed. I suppose I'm looking for the "a-ha!" more natural acoustic tone DI and right now it seems it's between the Tonedexter, the Optima Air and this LR Baggs.
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The MVT is a must to have the tone knob and get rid of this nasty high end... it is a pity because you got rid of it, it is a less extraordinary. Pickup... other SBT usually lack high end.... The trance audio amulet has tons to spare.
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I do it that way, again by Gary's recommendation, and it works great. It's fairly easy, and mostly eliminates the trial and error of placement. All I do is plug in, position the jack, and nudge it around until I get the best sound. Then stop and let it set overnight.
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Thanks, Maury, although I've gotten good results from my installation process, I'll give Gary's recommended method a go. I guess that's why the Amulet is called a "lens."
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My pleasure.
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Multi-band compressor to reduce string noise
I play fingerstyle and use my nails to pluck the strings. Occasionally my fingernails will scrape along the string windings producing an awful string squeak. This issue becomes very pronounced when playing my Taylor ES2 equipped guitar plugged in. I'm able to reduce some of the string squeak using a parametric eq, but this affects the overall tone of the strings. I'm wondering how effective the Soundscape multi-band compressor would be at reducing the squeaks? It would be like using a de-esser on a recorded track to remove string squeaks. Aeron, I would love to see you try using the multi-band compressor to address this problem.
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