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Hello Dean my name is Daniel T. Albertini of Albertini Guitar Works I read the thread for Richard and agree that the RMC folks and Graphtech are at the top of their game. I graduated from/earned luthier certification Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery in Phoenix Arizona. I was curious if you were familiar with the school? Anyway I have also designed and built and currently building a new flamenco like model. I am utilizing spanish cedar, oregon myrtle/California Laurel also locally called pepperwood, African Pink Ivory and Ebony, various species of rosewood and mahogany entandrophagma. I have unbelievable figured metaseqoiadendron for the soundboard that you might get lucky enough to find in a museum or wood collector but doubtful. It is many thousands of years old I have no idea how it found its way to Kansas. One professor friend of mine said it was probably brought in by railroad car over a hundred years ago!!! If you would like to see some of my other current designs in use link up with me and my friends at www.myspace.com/albertiniguitarworks It would be great to chat and consult with you on your designs and various luthier subjects and music or whatever! I have some fun live radio looping performances to prepare for as well so Peace Be With You, Daniel T. Albertini --- "Dean, Hal " <HDean@wcupa.edu> wrote: > Richard, > > While there are those who argue that tracking with the Roland GK system > is good, they are a distinct minority; I am not among them. The majority > opinion, by far, is that either the RMC system or GraphTech's Ghost > system are far superior in terms of tracking and accuracy. Both operate > on the same principle - piezo saddle pickups that feed into a > "translator" module. The RMC system has been used in Godin's MIDI-ready > guitars, such as the Multiac and LGXT, for years. I have both those > guitars as well as an RMC-equipped classical guitar I had made. > > I am currently researching how to install a MIDI pickup system in a Paul > Reed Smith Archtop (which BTW I bought from Kris Hartung) and find that > Ghost may be more suitable in this instrument, for reasons I won't go > into here. In the course of researching this I've seen comments on the > midiguitar forum to the effect that the build quality, specifically > connectors, and balance are not as good with Ghost; supposedly, both > these issues can be overcome with some careful installation techniques. > > Both RMC and Ghost systems will be costlier than the Roland system. Both > can also provide a nice piezoelectric sound to blend with any pickups > you have already. The Godin Multiac is a great acoustic guitar with just > the piezo sound, and the MIDI capability. I will miss mine when I sell > it - which I need to do to make up for buying the PRS! > > I would love to have an Axon. I have an older Roland GI-10. Everyone > that has used the Axon and the Roland GI-10 or -20 says the Axon is > better. You certainly have that part of the signal chain well covered. > > Take a look at http://www.graphtech.com/ghost_info.php and > http://www.rmcpickup.com/. > > OT- Am I remembering you are the guy who knew Stanley Whitaker? > > Hal Dean > > ________________________________ > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com