Acoustic pickup recommendation

Funkfingers · May 2023

Jetfire said:

I've got an LR Baggs Anthem in my Faith Naked acoustic at the moment and, I'll be honest, it doesn't float my boat at all.

I briefly had the Anthem SL "economy" model. My objection to it was the absence of a proper balance control to crossfade between the Element UST and Lyric microphone.

I detest all UST devices.

I sold the Element SL and replaced it with a Lyric internal mic. Obviously, this lacks the sonic purity of a valve-powered ribbon microphone on a shock-proof stand but it gets my racket into the DAW.

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My musical collaborator has one of the expensive Taylor electro-acoustic guitars with their Expression system. Plug in. Sounds like an acoustic guitar. It is easy to understand why a lot of stage performers like them.

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I take ICBM's point about IR modelling but you might as well trigger that from an electric guitar with a Fishman Powerbridge.

Funkfingers · May 2023

ICBM said:
External mics are great. Internal ones just cause feedback problems and sound odd because they're picking up a sound you never normally hear from outside the guitar.

Distinction should be made between the condenser-mic-on-a-gooseneck efforts found on, say, the Fishman Rare Earth Blend soundhole pickup and the PZM-like L. R. Baggs Lyric.

Tommy Emmanuel uses a combination of UST with a strong dash of internal condenser mic. He manages to make that combination sound good without resorting to IR jiggerypokery.

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