Fishman New Frontier Rare Earth Humbucker
Submitted at: 15:37, 6/15/2001
Product Info
Pickup features: under the saddle magnetic humbucker and a condenser microphone
Impedence or other specs: I think its 10
Price Paid: US $500
Purchased from: sweden
Instrument
Model of guitar or bass: Larivee L-09
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: none
Other pickups on guitar:
Artists using this pickup: no one i know of
You musical style(s): Strumming picking
Reason for pickup change:
Sound
Perceived output level: normal
Tone: perfect
Sonic evaluation: PA-system but Iīm building an amp
For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Style has nothing to do with amplifying an acoustic guitar, all you want is it to sound like a guitar
Overall Rating
Comments: There is only one way of amplifying an acoustic guitar, you need three things, these three pickups complete eachother and gives you a natural sound. The Piezo gives you the sensetivity of your playing, the condenser microphone gives you a natural reverb or if you want to call it air or dimension or whatever into the sound , the magnetic gives you punch, this is the only right way to amplify your guitar. everything else is a compromise. When you install this you have to put the piezo and the condenser to the preamplifier provided by b-band so you can adjust these two microphones on your guitar. send this to the tip of your stereo endpin, then you take the magnetic (try sunrise if you prefer that sound) and send it to the ring of the stereo endpin. after this you need a preamplifier (rane ap13 or raven-labs pmb for example) or a mixer (if you ran out of money here) and then a good solid workhorse poweramp and then a good speaker, PA or ampeg 15" basspeaker or a daedelus or whatever you like. If you put alll this together youīre gonna have the best motherfucking acoustic sound on the planet (next after me īcos im building a new preamp now ;-) ) let this be known īcos this has taken me 4 years to come up with and i canīt really make any money from this so just consider it the ultimate statement in acoustic microphone amplification!
On a scale of 1 to 10, I give this pickup a: 10 Fantastic value
Submitted by: daniel lundholm <daniel_lundholm@hotmail.com>