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    Lewy said:

    That’s the nub if it all. Lloyd Baggs framed it best when I heard him talking about walking down a street in Nashville and hearing so many amazing players using less than stunning plugged in sounds and essentially it boils down to the trade off between what he called “fidelity” (ie sounding like an acoustic) and “stability”. There’s how good your gear can sound, and then there’s how good it is realistically going to sound on the specific gig given sound check time, pa etc Most approaches to introducing fidelity also introduce instability and sometimes it’s not worth it. I definitely found that when trying to make a Baggs Lyric work for me playing lots in London with uninterested/incompetent venue sound people!
    I found that with the Fishman Aura Spectrum too - set right, with the PA set right, it sounded magically like a mic'ed guitar. Set wrong, or with the PA set wrong, it sounded awful. Since I was mostly going to be using it at the sort of gigs where you usually don't know the sound engineer, don't get much of a soundcheck, and often can't even hear your own sound properly on stage, I felt it was more of a liability than an asset.

    I'm now using a Boss AD-8, which is significantly further towards 'stability' than 'fidelity' - but most importantly, still removes the piezo boom/buzz and sounds at least something like a mic'ed acoustic.

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