Emerald nylon + Tonewood amp

[GuitarLuva]

Originally Posted by ac

The prices in you link are in Australian dollars, but actually it is much cheaper than Tonewood.

Another variation of the effects pickup is below.

In US dollars direct from China, price is pretty good. You could almost buy two for the price of a Tonewood . . . . but of course, assembly required.

https://8soundsmusic.com/products/fr...system-pickups

A different glimpse of package contents for assembly from Italian site:

https://www.mercatinomusicale.com/mm...id5771248.html

Yes I'm aware the one I linked is in AU dollars. Just an FYI the one you linked is the older S1 version. That was once used by Enya but now they're using the S3. I don't really know if it's "newer and improved" but it definitely looks a lot more compact and sleek compared to the S1.

Hummm. Maybe a Fernandes Nomad for some augmented projection, and cool look.

[ed62]

For those of you who are interested in the tonewood for adding volume or projection to your nylon guitars I found I could run a simple test of the TA to see if it makes a noticeable increase in volume....I put the tonewood on the back of my Emerald harp guitar and plugged my sable into the tonewood with a 10 ft patch cord keeping them 10 feet apart......By strumming the sable and listening to the effects come out of the emerald I was able to listen for any noticeable difference in the volume of the tonewood guitar vs the acoustic projection from the sable.....at normal usable settings on the tonewood/emerald,the volume did not seem louder than the projection of the sable when strumming....Even maxing out the gain and volume on the tonewood made little difference in volume/projection only adding distortion to the effects...My conclusion is the added depth and presence that TA effects produce may trick the ear to perceive the guitar as being louder but to my ears it was pretty equaly balanced between guitar projection and effects projection

[mountainmaster]

Interesting experiment but with a strange outcome. If you attach the tonewood to another guitar, how can there not be a volume increase? Because now the effect is actually added to the volume of the guitar, instead of a single guitar body that is doing all the work.

This reminds me of a situation where adding a second guitarist to a band produces a weaker overall sound because the new guy is playing the same parts as the first guitarist.

[ed62]

Originally Posted by mountainmaster

Interesting experiment but with a strange outcome. If you attach the tonewood to another guitar, how can there not be a volume increase? Because now the effect is actually added to the volume of the guitar, instead of a single guitar body that is doing all the work.

This reminds me of a situation where adding a second guitarist to a band produces a weaker overall sound because the new guy is playing the same parts as the first guitarist.

Think of it this way...sound is measured in decibels...60 decibels of sound is the same volume whether it comes from 1 , 2 or 4 speakers....If you spread 4 speakers around the room the sound reference point will change but overall volume will still be 60 db

[ealmasy]

Originally Posted by Aspiring

I'm interested in hearing how this works out. I have an x7 nylon that I quite like but it is a bit quiet unplugged.

IMHO the Tonewood can definitely add some volume. Certainly not enough to replace using a PA at a gig, but significant enough to be noticeable in a smaller setting.

[ealmasy]

Originally Posted by ed62

I tryed 2 longer strips of alien tape the length of each of short sides of the tonewood today instead of the 4 corners just to see and boy did it stick to the sable.Stuck maybe a little too well..I had all I could do to get it off but it finally let loose and slowly pulled off the back LOL....Needless to say I cut the strips a little shorter and stuck the tonewood on my resonator where I plan on keeping it for awhile anyway....Its on there good and it starts to lift off when I tried get it off so I think Im good..... My advice is to start with the corners and see how that works for you with the cargo

Got the Alien Tape in and tried it tonight, with two 1" squares to hold the TWA to my Cargo. It worked really well – as good or better than I had possibly hoped. However it was indeed a serious challenge to get the TWA back off of the guitar – think next time I'm going to try 3/4" pieces.

[ed62]

Originally Posted by ealmasy

Got the Alien Tape in and tried it tonight, with two 1" squares to hold the TWA to my Cargo. It worked really well – as good or better than I had possibly hoped. However it was indeed a serious challenge to get the TWA back off of the guitar – think next time I'm going to try 3/4" pieces.

HaHa , yeah I took mine off the steel resonator the other day and I thought I was gonna have to use a cutting torch to get the tonewood off...Finally let loose and came off nice...That tape is the nuts !!!