[LAU] Very low input from accoustic guitar pickup

[Arnold Krille]

Am Freitag, 23. November 2007 schrieb Sebastian Tschöpel:
>  > having a battery doesn't mean a thing in regards to preamps, it means
>  > it has an active rather than a passive pickup
> But isn't the difference between an active and a passive pickup, that
> the active one uses the electrical energy to run a preamp (or an EQ as
> well) --> "Active" as in "active signal modifying" ?

But most players will still connect the guitar to the instrument (thus hi-z) 
input of their amp, regardless wether its one with active or passive 
electronic. So the active ones have to prepare an output signal for hi-z. 
Thats why you need DI-boxes or preamps with hi-z for recording direct.

But after I listened to some tubeamps and speaker-combos a friend of mine is 
building himself: If you have an electric guitar, you should really 
experiment with mic-ing the amp unless you really, really want to record the 
plain signal and do it all digitally (by the fabulous CAPS-plugins for 
example).

Have fun,

Arnold
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