Open Mic sessions and pickups

[Gelsenbury]

I have tried both: a separate instrument microphone, which I bring along to the venue, and a mandolin with a pickup. At the moment, I prefer the pickup. It leaves me free to move a little without worrying about affecting the sound, and in a pub setting nobody is likely to notice, or care about, the slightly inferior sound. As I become better at playing mandolin, my opinion may change.

Where in the South East are you? And where's your open mic? There is still a folk club in Faversham and an informal acoustic club in Sturry near Canterbury as far as I know. And several nice sessions!

[Br1ck]

The typical mixer inputs are 800 ohms. Without getting technical, a piezo wants to see an input impedance of 1 meg ohm or better. Most acoustic guitar amps have this input impedance. It's basically how a piezo reacts to this impedance that determines it's frequency response. Plug into a mixing board and a piezo will give you a harsh thin high frequency tone. The proper impedance will smooth the tone.

A devise like the RedEye provides this along with a linear gain stage.

[misterstormalong]

Where in the South East are you? And where's your open mic? There is still a folk club in Faversham and an informal acoustic club in Sturry near Canterbury as far as I know. And several nice sessions!

Orpington Folk and Blues

http://www.orpingtonfolknblues.co.uk