Is anyone familiar with this builder's mandos?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/F-Style-Elec...p2056016.l4276
Is anyone familiar with this builder's mandos?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/F-Style-Elec...p2056016.l4276
It doesn't seem like you'd get much electric sound from the E string.
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He's sold three others like this, but it looks like he's trying to up the price:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_odkw...olin+&_sacat=0
He had a demo video for one of these, but it presented only the sound of the piezo bridge (with which I wasn't all that impressed), not the guitar pickup at all.
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Right, but presumably it'll push the pole pieces well away from the strings, assuming the fretboard extension is a regular thickness.
I've pretty much come to the conclusion that e-mandos will never sound good that far up the fretboard anyway, neither pickup, amp, or PA are designed for life up there.
Imbedding a piezoelectric strip in the bridge can always be done,2nd channel, to augment the magnetic pickup.
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At some point stereo outputs have been considered given the projected range of this mandolin.
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Suggested guitar string height above Les Paul neck humbuckers [with the string fretted at the top fret] is 4 to 5 64ths.
Maybe the far greater height here works for more of an acoustic sound. To reinforce the piezo, so it doesn't feed back at high volumes. Personally I don't like the sound of humbuckers used on acoustic mandolins. They sound "canned", probably because the attack and decay sound is so unnatural. Maybe if just a little signal is dialed in. :^) A demo really should have been provided.
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