Amplifying Acoustic Instruments

1996
AL#47 p.50   BRB4 p.358            
Harry Fleishman                                                                                           

▪ Fleishman has worked with all the commercial piezo pickups and has made a bunch of his own. Shop-brewed pickups can be cheap, useful, and instructive, but finding the best use for any piezo can be complicated. Adding microphones or magnetic pickups to the mix can be more confusing than helpful. Fleishman takes a look at all the angles. From his 1995 convention lecture.

This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s best articles published before 2010.