Weirdo pickups

[Doog]

I'm not sure why they didn't say how they recorded the samples. I'd be interested to hear one through a crunchy tube amp.

I think somewhere down the road, I'll buy a cheap 'bucker guitar and put one/two in. I'm intriguied and willing to try something different and ugly.

[Billy3000]

Transducers and Piezos work by picking up the acoustic vibrations of the instrument, whereas magnetic pickups magnetically pick up the string itself. What I'm saying is it's impossible for it to sound like an electro-acoustic. What you're hearing is one guitar through one amp, with one eq, with one playing style. I highly doubt that's how this thing sounds all the time.

I'd kind of consider this thing if they put up some decent sounding samples with different effects in use.

Dude, that thing sounds like a piezo with the treble maxed. I know it, you know it, the american people know it.

Agreed. If it sounds like a piezo with one playing style, chances are that it's going to sound like a piezo with another playing style.

[Doog]

Transducers and Piezos work by picking up the acoustic vibrations of the instrument, whereas magnetic pickups magnetically pick up the string itself.

It's my understanding that piezos are more about string vibration rather than the actual resonance of the instrument itself though- piezos in electric guitars don't sound that differnet to piezos in acoustic guitars.



If I heard that piezo sound "blind" I'd say it was an electro-acoustic.. and that teeny little body ain't gonna have too much resonance.

[Mike]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickup_%28 ... ic_pickups

[Mike]

If I heard that piezo sound "blind" I'd say it was an electro-acoustic.. and that teeny little body ain't gonna have too much resonance.

They are very distinctive - I dunno what my Electro-Acoustic uses, it's a Freshman. Sounds nice through a PA.. when recording I mix a tiny amount of the DI sound with a mic to add edge and definition.

[Mike]

http://www.freshmanguitars.co.uk/products.asp?ID=91

Apparently: The Electronics are the Amazing Schertler active soundhole system.

I think it's this:

http://www.schertler.com/prodotti_ing/p ... ck_aeq.htm

Anyway it sounds great