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Tim What kind of contact transducers do you use on your guitar? great tip,i want to get a marimbula and mike it with a fishman! Luis --- Tim Nelson <psychle62@yahoo.com> wrote: > > One thing I've found helpful has been to be able to > control the mic signal with a volume pedal. There > was > a thread several years ago in which I asked if > anyone > knew of an xlr-equipped, low impedance volume pedal. > I > never did find one (or bother to wire one up) but I > did get around the problem by putting a little > preamp > on my pedalboard (a midiman audio buddy) so that my > mic'ed stuff goes SM57>preamp>volume pedal>mixing > board. I've also used a Behringer Shark in place of > the midiman, and it works ok too. The idea is to > control the volume level to the looper; backing it > off > and looping silence at times to avoid the monolithic > roar that can build up really quickly with an > 'always-on' mic. > > It's not foolproof; one must still be very careful > with monitor placement so that the loops don't > re-enter the mic. (Acoustically, I mean; I have a > lot > of fun routing the loops back into themselves with > the > aux sends). Having a bit more control over what gets > into the loop through the mic keeps the noise floor > a > little more tolerable. A bit of EQ tweaking can help > a > lot as well. > > Also, I've had pretty good results with putting > contact mics/transducers on some of my otherwise > acoustic instruments to avoid having to mic them. A > piezo bar like you'd find under a guitar saddle is > great under the bridge of a mbira; huge bass! > > -t- > > --- ml@dadaprod.org wrote: > > My problem is when I play live (no problem with > > headphone at home), I've got > > serious feedback when I add several layers of > > acoustic instruments! > > > > I am working with a boomerang (v1.0) wich is > placed > > at the aux send of a little > > beringer. My guitar is connected to this beringer > > throuh a Pod (line 6) and I > > record acoustic instruments (my voice too) with a > > sm57 microphone also > > connected to the mix table.. > > > > Has anyone any idea how I can improve all this? > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > www.luis-angulo.com ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs