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Post by Pistol Pete on Dec 4, 2015 13:08:05 GMT -5
I'm just wondering what experience people have of using a lavalier mic rather than an acoustic pickup?
How is the feedback issue, particularly in cramped noisy environments like pub gigs? Do you get a lot of background noise & rumble bleeding through?
Which models do people own & would they recommend them?
I have an old archtop as a fixer-up project on the go & I'd like to ultimately play it out occasionally, but the range of archtop-ready transducers is somewhat limited & not great sound-wise judging by the samples I have listened to.
I'm also thinking that if it is a viable option it could be used on the resonator that doesn't get played enough because I don't like the pickup & allow me to gig a couple of practice/studio guitars that I've never got round to installing pickups on if the mood took me.
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Post by banjo on Dec 4, 2015 14:48:44 GMT -5
I have experimented in this field. I have a brass bodied, 12 fret single cone. I am using a DPA mic. I installed it internally beneath the cone. Result: mega mega boomy. (This should not have surprised me really, strum your reso and lifting your thumb on and off one of the circular "f" holes will let you know where the sound is emanting from.) So, I ran the mic lead through a rubber grommet in a hole driled on the side of the conewell, and secured the DPA mic using double stick tape to the underside of the cover plate on the treble side of the biscuit. Result: sublime to rediculous. All treble and little bass response to speak of. Next time I open up and go in, I'm going to relocate the DPA to the bass side of the biscuit, and I'm sort of confident that it'll improve, if only just a bit. If it doesn't then I shall admit defeat gracefully. I know the foregoing doesn't apply to a straight acoustic, but the DPA is a top of the tree piece of hardware and a very expensive levallier mic. It goes to show that installation is at least as important as the quality of the mic. so be prepared to experiment. It should also reinforce the widely held opinion that if you want the best quality of realistic tone reproduction, you should go with a standard mic and learn how to "work it", and in the case of a reso- that really implies a good old SM57. Hope this helps, if only to short cut expensive try-outs. At the end of the day, it's only my $02.
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