| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Fishman pickups? | | Date: | Thursday, March 13, 2008 09:10:27 (-0700) | | From: | Arthur Kohnke <suoirafenrm @.....com>
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| In reply to: | Message 8932 (written by Dave Dillman) |
I'm sure you can imagine that I have had some good ones.
Kohnke--how you like that for German?
Dave Dillman <dmdillman@earthlink.net> wrote:
/I've had worse!/
Arthur Kohnke wrote:
> Sorry I biffed your name--Dave Dillman
>
> Arthur Kohnke wrote: Hey, Charlie, Dave Dillon said:
>
> You always need an active pickup, the difference is if the preamp is
> built in to the guitar or not. A good preamp translates whatever the
> pickup's impedance is and buffers it for the amp or mixing board. The
> advantage of an active pickup, in theory at least, is that all the
> pickup/preamp components are matched for the best response. Using a
> passive piezo pickup into an amp without a preamp (internal or
> external)
> is the worst since the impedance mis-match is very great.
>
> I don't disagree with what he said, and I did leave out the fact that I always use at bare minimum a good quality direct injection box between the instruments with the K & K pickups in them and the amp/board.
>
> I believe that you would find the concensus to be that active pickups for acoustic instruments are far superior to passive in almost all cases whether or not your controls are on board. The debate still rages hot with respect to electric instruments. I would just accent two points that I made to help you in your search--you have control with active that you don't have with passive, and you should very carefully choose the active pickup that you will install, as the various systems will sound somewhat different, and they will color the tone of your instrument some, some more than others, and some favorably while others perhaps not. Don't expect your sound coming out of the speakers from your pickup to sound exactly like your instrument going through a good microphone.
>
> As for volume control, if you don't want to put a knob on the instrument would an in-line volume pedal work?
>
>
> Charlie Morris wrote:
> Wow, thanks both you guys for the detailed info. You've got me talked into
> the active.
>
> But, whether I get the active or passive, I still need to have one of the
> little preamp boxes if I want to have a volume control, right?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arthur Kohnke"
> To:
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 2:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Fishman pickups?
>
>
>
>> Hey, Charlie--here's a letter that I sent to a friend some months ago.
>> Maybe there's something you can use here:
>>
>> It can be a tricky question, which one to use. Let's see how far you
>> want to go with this one. If you get tired of reading just go to the
>> bottom of this note for da stuff in a single (albeit a little long)
>> sentence.
>>
>>
>
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