Re: OT: amplifying a national steel dobro guitar

["Rick Walker" <looppool@cruzio.com>]

Hey Luis,

I wasn't trying to admonish about the OT thing.............just keeping 
people on track for the
sake of all.   Periodically, we just have to reinforce the OT postings 
netiquette and the
'please for the sake of god,  don't include every post in your post so the 
daily digest doesn't
come in 8 times a day for lack of bandwidth"  problem that continually 
occurs here..........lol


About the amplification.  I have to say,  that though  I disagree with 
many 
things that Bob Brozman
has to say about world music (and agree with more than as many as well) 
that he is
the king of this instrument and his wholel life revolves around sounding 
fantastic on sound
systems all over the planet (good and bad).

His solution of the Neumann K150   is the bomb.
YOu can't believe how good he sounds in concert.

I know it's a pricey mic.

that being said and done,   the Shertler portable mic that sticks on , 
convertably, to any
instrument at all has changed my life.   I'm touring with one and I'll 
show 
it to you
when we play together later this month.

You can put it on a frame drum,  a kalimba,  a cajon,  a national steel,  
a 
violin,
just about anything that resonates with very , very little feedback and a 
nice
rich sound.

I'ts NOT a piezo styled pick up..............the mic is just below the 
surface (by a thumb nails distance)
of a small round metal housing.   You put a puddy (that doesn't not harm 
any 
surfaces coming off the instrument
but sticks firmly in place.   You fashion the putty into a circle and 
press 
the pickup straight down
onto the instrument (you need a fairly flat or slightly curved surface)  
and 
the puddy seals all around the
mic as you put down so it is inside a chamber.

I took a large body 12 string steel guitar ,  amplified it with the 
schertler and put it up right in front of
my pa speakers without feedback!!!!

I love it.         It won't be quite the fidelity of the Neumman k150 and 
if 
given the chance I might not
use it in a fine studio recording, but for live it rocks the Casbah.

I'll show it to you.   They have normal string and ethnic string models.
I believe I have the ethnic string model , though I think the normal 
string 
model probably picks up more bass which would have been nice.

pricey ($500 USD?)   but completely worth it if you are a 
multiinstrumentalist like yourself.