Timeline for Recording an acoustic guitar with passive under-saddle pickup-system and having much noise
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| May 7, 2017 at 23:21 | vote | accept | StefanH | ||
| May 7, 2017 at 23:10 | comment | added | StefanH | @dogoncouch: Yes, as I was also recording with my mic which is connected through XLR, and it needed Phantom power. According to the manual "[...] 48V phantom power supplied to the MIC IN jacks [...]", so the LINE IN should not receive any power, but suprisingly if I switch off the phantom power the noise lever for the pickup indeed reduces, strange or??? | |
| May 7, 2017 at 4:09 | comment | added | dogoncouch |
Seems odd in the picture: Phantom power probably shouldn't be on for most transducer pickups. Is there a reason for that? Also, try setting the mic/line : guitar switch to mic/line. It's a slightly different signal strength, and sometimes that works better on acoustic pickups. P.S. You can get great sound with an under saddle/piezo pickup; don't believe the hype. I know professionals who use them to record. Practicing is more important.
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| May 6, 2017 at 23:00 | answer | added | Rockin Cowboy | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 6, 2017 at 22:51 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackMusic/status/860990496092672000 | ||
| May 6, 2017 at 22:13 | comment | added | leftaroundabout | Quality of the piëzo aside: I hope you only use it as a supplementary means for recording the guitar, and the mic input is occupied by a decent condenser mic that's the main channel for the guitar? For even the best piëzo recording won't sound as good one with a properly mic'd guitar (provided the room acoustics permit it). | |
| May 6, 2017 at 21:28 | comment | added | StefanH | Okay, thought this interface would be enough, for my mic it works wells. No my guitar has not any batterie or volume controls, just something to plug the cable in. | |
| May 6, 2017 at 21:21 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | Is there a battery and volume controls built into the guitar or are you using an external preamp? If the answer to both of those questions is "no" then that's probably the cause. BTW that picture is not what I would normally call a preamp, it's an audio interface with a high impedance 1/4" input but often those inputs are not very good at what they are supposedly good at. Undersaddle piezo pickups generally need dedicated preamps. | |
| May 6, 2017 at 20:10 | answer | added | José David | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 6, 2017 at 18:54 | history | asked | StefanH | CC BY-SA 3.0 |