OldePhart
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A while back someone here strongly recommended the soundboard pickups from JJB Electronics. I don't recall who, but I owe them a beverage or six if we ever meet in person.
I ordered two of the single-transducer systems for my Mainland soprano ukes. Installed the one in the mango today and I'm frankly amazed - this is the most natural-sounding acoustic pickup I've experienced and I've used a lot of pickups literally costing up to ten times what this one did! Later this week I will probably be ordering several more of these pickups as I see them going in all my ukes - maybe even the ones that presently have MiSi pickups.
What really floored me is that the pickup even captured a little of the doppler effect this uke exhibits when strummed. I really wasn't expecting that at all because it's primarily caused by the strumming hand passing rapidly over the sound hole.
This isn't a step-by-step video as I didn't have time for that, but it is a video of the result and an audio comparison where I recorded the left channel from a Sure 58 microphone and the right channel from the JJB pickup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB2oi0tXX_E&feature=youtu.be
Playing is lousy because I was sitting at an awkward angle trying to get close to the microphone without bumping it.
John
PS: Discovered that YouTube introduced a lot of cross-talk between the audio channels - maybe even made the audio mono I can't tell for sure - anyway, to hear the actual soundclip without YouTube's murderfication of it go to soundcloud http://soundcloud.com/oldephart/jjb-electronics-pickup-in
I ordered two of the single-transducer systems for my Mainland soprano ukes. Installed the one in the mango today and I'm frankly amazed - this is the most natural-sounding acoustic pickup I've experienced and I've used a lot of pickups literally costing up to ten times what this one did! Later this week I will probably be ordering several more of these pickups as I see them going in all my ukes - maybe even the ones that presently have MiSi pickups.
What really floored me is that the pickup even captured a little of the doppler effect this uke exhibits when strummed. I really wasn't expecting that at all because it's primarily caused by the strumming hand passing rapidly over the sound hole.
This isn't a step-by-step video as I didn't have time for that, but it is a video of the result and an audio comparison where I recorded the left channel from a Sure 58 microphone and the right channel from the JJB pickup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB2oi0tXX_E&feature=youtu.be
Playing is lousy because I was sitting at an awkward angle trying to get close to the microphone without bumping it.
John
PS: Discovered that YouTube introduced a lot of cross-talk between the audio channels - maybe even made the audio mono I can't tell for sure - anyway, to hear the actual soundclip without YouTube's murderfication of it go to soundcloud http://soundcloud.com/oldephart/jjb-electronics-pickup-in
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