Nylon strings= trouble live (1 Viewer)

[sugar_referee]

Has anybody been able to get this right? I've a decent nylon string Tanglewood which sounds great acoustically, but the onboard preamp/ eq is pure molten dick, gives me no end of trouble through a DI and eats batteries in a matter of days. Engineers always get shirty when I ask them to slap a microphone in front of it, which I can understand, I suppose. Any recommendations?

 

[the departed]

interesting read and its also something ive been trying to figure out.

http://www.classicalguitarbuilder.com/march_news/Issue6_newsletter.html

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

Engineers need to man up and mic the motherfucker.

 

[Unicron]

Why would the engineers object to micing it?

 

[damien]

Probably because it'd be very difficult to get it up to a decent volume without feedback.

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

 

[sugar_referee]

Usually because of uncontrollable feedback, or something as simple as there not being enough room on stage, which is fair enough. Feedback tends to be a problem because when you're using your fingertips as opposed to your fingernails as I do, to get sufficient volume out front and for monitoring with drums and other stuff coming through the PA, I have to get all up in the mics face.

Thanks for link Gar, was reading that yesterday. Those under the saddle L.R Baggs things look perfect but if I try to install one of those myself there'd be carnage

 

[Space]

Do them sound rubber hole covers work in stopping feedback?

 

[sugar_referee]

I actually dunno, anyone any experience with these? Would they not destroy the sound of a nylon-string?

 

[shower another shower]

Do them sound rubber hole covers work in stopping feedback?

No experience with nylon strings, but they work a wonder on steel string gtrs.
would you not just get phantom power from the desk to the di and sod the batteries?

 

[ernesto]

No experience with nylon strings, but they work a wonder on steel string gtrs.
would you not just get phantom power from the desk to the di and sod the batteries?

i always thought that guitar batteries were needed regardless of desk 48v

 

[shower another shower]

ah, right, read that wrong. read it as the DI was, "eating batteries in a matter of days".

 

[sugar_referee]

http://www.lrbaggs.com/html/products/systems_element.shtml

So has anyone had any experience installing these? I think you've to drill a hole in yer guitar, which doesn't bother me except I'll be fucked if I'm going to do it, given how cack-handed I am.

 

[Red_Dog]

Get this

http://www.yamaha.com/guitars/products/productdetail.html?CNTID=60170&CTID=600022

 

[Pantone247]

http://www.thomann.de/ie/fishman_sbtclassic.htm

or

http://www.deanmarkley.com/Pickups/ArtistTransducer.shtml

I used one like the Dean Markley before, just blu-tak it onto the front of the guitar, tape the socket to the front, feed the wire out and into a pre-amp or EQ or something... conventional wisdom says they aren't great... but I thought it was great and probably more natural then most sucky piezo underbridge jobbies

big plus with blu tak and tape, just take it all off at the end