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For acoustic amplification, I've got the guitars and gear for what I consider sounds good amplified. My cure for this acoustic-amplification rabbit hole is to now go down the electric guitars and amps rabbit hole!
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I'm posting just to get this on my subscription list because I have errands to run while it's still mild outside and I have some questions.
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When playing acoustic in a stage setting. At first, you're just happy you can hear anything at all.
Remember the wooden Dean Markley sound hole pickups? Then the piezo ThinLine Next was the onboard preamp. It's all great till you hear THAT sound. Call it the quack, the fizz, whatever. Usually you don't even notice it. Until you record it. Once you hear it. You can't unhear it. Then you hear it. Every time. |
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I obsess more over my playing skills than my live sound - I started the better live-amplified sound back with a Mama Bear Pre-amp - still have it and it still works very well. I got a nice 000-18 w/no pickup and put a Fishman Elipse, downloaded the guitar models for it and it is so easy to dial in and go, it sounds really good, very simple "mic'd" sound with that. I have a 322Ce with the latest Taylor pickup system in it - it also sounds good, I've tried it with the Mama Bear, it has a pleasing result but if I just want to plug in and go the ES2 system gets it done. None of the pickup systems mentioned here will have the audience running for the doors because the guitar sound is "off". I'm just pleased that the tech behind better acoustic amplified sound has improved so very much since the 90's and way before then. We got it good now. Spend the time in the chair and have fun entertaining an audience.
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The ES system will do everything you need it to do. No non guitar nerd will know or care it's not the height of amplified perfection. Play solo, it works, play with a band, likewise. I've heard many, many Taylors. Their owners tend to grab them when playing out. Not their favorite guitar, but their most competent. At the open mic I help run they never sound bad. Always can dial them in quickly if only their owners would set then leave them alone.
There is a lot to be said for all the above.
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Congratulations to Bart, the OP, for a relatively short, and easy quest for his amplification bliss. Consider yourself fortunate. Many of us too a much longer journey with many more stops along the way. I couldn't even begin to list the number of pickups and preamps I have used... Wait, let me try. This could be fun. (Not Necessarily in Chronological order. There are some I have used, sold and purchased again)
Pickups: Fishman Matrix UST Highlander BBand LR Baggs Dual Source LR Baggs Element Fishman Pro (The barn door in a Taylor) Fishman Rare Earth Blend DTAR Multisource K&K Pure Western K&K Pure Mini K&K Triple Source (Can't Remember the name) (mini, Silver Bullet Mic, UST Combo in an internal preamp) K&K Dual Sourced with an AKG Mic, Crown Mic, DPA 4061 DPA 4099 Mic Taylor ES LR Baggs I-Beam LR Baggs Anthem LR Baggs Lyric LR Baggs Anthem SL Taylor ES 2 Dazzos Trance Amulet Preamps: Fishman Pocket Blender LR Baggs PADI LR Baggs Venue RANE AP-13 Pendulum SPS-1 Fishman Aura Fishman Platinum Pro DTAR Equinox DTAR Mama Bear Raven Labs PMB - 2 Raven Labs True Blue EQ Raven Labs - Universal Stereo Instrument Preamp Radial PZ Deluxe Radial ToneBone Fire Eye Red Eye Mesa Boogie Rosette DI Tonedexter Grace Alix Sunnaudio Stage DI Sunnaudio Tone Driver Sunnaudio MS-2 Sunnaudio Stage DI 2 Currently, Give me a Dazzo and a Sunnaudio Stage DI-2 and let me get to finally learning how to play guitar. :-)
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Gear: PRS Hollowbody II Piezo, Martin HPL 000, PRS Angelus A60E, Martin 000-15M |