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Shadow
Catching my ear in the Shadow booth were not one but two excellent classical guitarists. Playing through your basic JBL Eon P.A. setup, they achieved a very realistic acoustic sound by using Shadow's Megasonic 22 system.
The system features a combination piezo bridge and gooseneck-mounted condenser mic. You'd need your guitar repair guy to drill a tiny hole for the under-bridge piezo, but otherwise the system can be installed, without modification, to any acoustic guitar with a standard sound hole. The unit attaches to the underside of the sound hole with a small piece of Velcro and a small protruding plastic lip. The gooseneck mic is positioned beneath the strings. A series of four knobs and one switch allows you to adjust the piezo and mic volume, treble, and bass, as well as activate the feedback suppressor. As with most similar systems, the 1/4-inch connector jack replaces the guitar's end pin. Perhaps the best feature of the unit is the $149 USD list price.
For players who like effects with their acoustic/electric sound, Shadow offers the Megatech 8. This unit is essentially a miniature preamp/multi-effects processor that installs directly in the acoustic guitar. It is significantly more intrusive than the Megasonic system and would require professional installation. In other words, don't install this in a Ted McCarty-era Gibson J-200. The Megatech 8 offers the ability to program reverb, tremolo, delay, chorus, flange, compression, noise gate, and six-band EQ. It also comes with twenty factory presets, many of which simulate different types of acoustic guitars - jumbo, dreadnought, semi-hollow, roundback, and so on. On top of all this, it has a built-in tuner. Megatech 8 retails in the U.S. for $340.
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