Interesting amplification setup

[Cosmic Wonder]

Mike

[coachdoc]

Love those M-36’s. A popular woman performer around here uses one and it always sounds great.

[Russell Letson]

"Which you probably thought was an electric."

A mag pickup through a conventional electric-guitar signal chain is an "electric guitar," even if the supporting instrument is also a fully-functioning acoustic. Like my archtops.

[Village Idiot]

The Weary Ramblers played in Garrison Sunday. I really liked their amp set up. Each of them were hooked up to their own Fishman amp, which for two people balanced out great. And no mixer or anything needed. So easy.




I also really liked them. They were great.

[Marshall]

I liked the sound in the 2nd half of the video. It's cool, though not "acoustic." The 1st half not much.

[Cosmic Wonder]

I wondered what you’d think of it Marshall, as you play out and experiment with your sound chain. For what it’s worth I liked all of it and can see how it would be useful, depending.

Mike

[Marty]

The Baggs Element UST has a "thru" solder tab so a passive pickup can be brought out as a stereo signal, only one cable. You can use a Insert/spliter cable or a stereo cable depending on how you want to treat each signal.

The George "L" pickup is a remake of the old Bill Lawrence acoustic pickup that Kottke used in his earlier years.

[Marshall]

Oct 24, 2023 15:50:56 GMT -5 Cosmic Wonder said:

I wondered what you’d think of it Marshall, as you play out and experiment with your sound chain. For what it’s worth I liked all of it and can see how it would be useful, depending.

Mike

Well, I think it was more the country honky-tonk style that didn't turn my crank in the first half. More a style thing than a critical sonic evaluation. The 2nd half sounded like a nice electric guitar. But I didn't hear any "acoustic tone" in it. I do like combining a Mag with some acoustic piezo type pickup. It can give clarity and retain the punctuation we normally associate with an acoustic guitar.

[John B]

I liked it. I keep thinking I want to get a soundhole pickup more designed for the typical electric sound, something along the lines of the old DeArmond soundhole pickups, and then run through an electric amp. It would be nice to have Elmore James on tap, so to speak. Curtis Novak makes a modern-day equivalent that I'm sure is high quality, but it is darned expensive.

www.curtisnovak.com/shop/soundhole-da-1200/

[Dub]

Oct 26, 2023 7:26:09 GMT -5 John B said:

I liked it. I keep thinking I want to get a soundhole pickup more designed for the typical electric sound, something along the lines of the old DeArmond soundhole pickups, and then run through an electric amp. It would be nice to have Elmore James on tap, so to speak. Curtis Novak makes a modern-day equivalent that I'm sure is high quality, but it is darned expensive.

www.curtisnovak.com/shop/soundhole-da-1200/

I once had a guitar with one of those DeArmond Soundhole pickups. I loved it. It was a very strange guitar with a neck whose angle could be adjusted by a couple of set screws under a plastic heel plate. I remember it as a National but it may have been a Kay. I got it in a pawn shop for $20. The top had been spray painted gold with a MOTS pick guard that seemed to have been crudely cut from an actual counter top and the frets had been filed down so they barely rose above the fingerboard. It was, I thought, a real bluesman’s guitar.

The first Brownie McGhee album I bought was that Folkways ten-inch album that Brownie did without Sonny Terry. I loved (still love) the sound he got on that album and the liner notes—remember those Folkways booklets?—pictured Brownie playing what seemed to be a D-18 with one of those DeArmond soundhole pickups.

The sound.

youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mnkJteZQgtmGb-G3sKBKfvf_BzsUSYjbo&si=obMyEUzBsm2Y7ZX9

[John B]

Oct 26, 2023 11:14:20 GMT -5 Dub said:

Oct 26, 2023 7:26:09 GMT -5 John B said:

I liked it. I keep thinking I want to get a soundhole pickup more designed for the typical electric sound, something along the lines of the old DeArmond soundhole pickups, and then run through an electric amp. It would be nice to have Elmore James on tap, so to speak. Curtis Novak makes a modern-day equivalent that I'm sure is high quality, but it is darned expensive.

www.curtisnovak.com/shop/soundhole-da-1200/

I once had a guitar with one of those DeArmond Soundhole pickups. I loved it. It was a very strange guitar with a neck whose angle could be adjusted by a couple of set screws inner a plastic heel plate. I remember it as a National but it may have been a Kay. I got it in a pawn shop for $20. The top had been spray painted gold with a MOTS pick guard that seemed to have been crudely cut from an actual counter top and the frets had been filed down so they barely rose above the fingerboard. It was, I thought, a real bluesman’s guitar.

The first Brownie McGhee album I bought was that Folkways ten-inch album that Brownie did without Sonny Terry. I loved (still love) the sound he got on that album and the liner notes—remember those Folkways booklets?—pictured Brownie playing what seemed to ne a D-18 with one of those DeArmond soundhole pickups.

The sound.

youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mnkJteZQgtmGb-G3sKBKfvf_BzsUSYjbo&si=obMyEUzBsm2Y7ZX9

That guitar sounds like one of the Nationals built by Gibson - the 1155 or 1160, maybe. I always thought they were cool, and Gibsons except for the National neck. I'll have to check out Brownie McGhee, as I am only familiar with the name and not the music.