Re: Acoustic preamp for mandolin
Summit Audio TD 100 has variable impedance loading, high gain tube preamp. Pricy but for a piezo I found not much else I like as well. I also have a Baggs Para DI. I hear the Redeye is a good impedance matching preamp. I will say this that the piezo input channel on my LoudBox 100 sounds almost as good as any I preamp have tried, minus the Summit Audio. You need no preamp with that channel (1) it is properly matched at 1 Mhm . Lots of good solutions out there that are expensive(Grace Designs), a loubox mini might be right for a preampless solution, you get an amp ofr the price of a better preamp.
John
2012 Collins MT-2 Birds Eye Maple
1924 Gibson F-4
2010 Custom National Resonator (one of a kind)
1930 National Resonator with new custom neck and "Doug Unger" inlay and back painted by Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong
2005 Godin A-8
2013 Kentucky KM-1050 "stage and club mandolin"
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