This one puzzles me since a very long time. It seems I'm unable to find the right solution.. On board microphone will amplify any noise your hg makes, including the tangents rattling or in my case, the bearing of the knob being a bit worn. On stage a microphone works best, at least if you are a statue like me. If you're moving around a swan-neck microphone can do the trick but don't start acting like a guitar hero or you loose the mike. To my very personal taste the swan-neck gives the best result pointed to the drones, to avoid a too aggresive chien. And that was my main problem testing very state of the art on board microphones. It isn't easy to get a good balance between the three major sound sources (melody, buzzing, drone). Melody and drones are quite easy to balance, the buzzing string tends to bleed through anything. You need a good blender to create your sound before it goes to the PA (to keep your sound out of the hands of ignorant sound engineers). An on-board one is very intrusive to your instrument, a stand-alone one obliges you to use a rather big cable (3 sound-sources!) After testing all this I finally gave up and sticked to a very good swan-neck, in my case a Sennheiser E608. Not too expensive and not sounding cheap.
Hope this helps. Pieter Lauwers On Jan 18, 3:36 pm, [email protected] wrote: > In re amplification-- I though you folks might enjoy this-- I have been > busking on the streets of New Orleans off and on over the last couple of > months, > and some performers there use amps, and some don't. My friend, who plays > double bass, and I don't. Well, we had a band a block away setting up just > as we > did, and they came over to tell us to move another block away, because we > were > too loud. They had not only loud instruments including trumpet, but they > were also amped. They got abusive enough about it that we did set up in an > alley > around the corner about 20 feet away. And truth to say, when we played, we > couldn't hear them at all. Doubt if anyone near us could, either. That is the > > beauty of a Balazs Nagy gurdy. > Cheers, > Alice > > In a message dated 1/18/2009 8:27:19 A.M. Central Standard Time, > > [email protected] writes: > > Hi everyone! > I am considering the idea of a pick-up powered amplification on my > first hg, but actually I don't know if it's convenient on a beginner- > to-intermediate model. I'll probably play on stage, but also onboard > microphones can be a nice (and less expensive) solution. > > **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy > steps! > (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?red... > cemailfooterNO62) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
