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Installing RMC pick up
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Mark2
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Joined: Jul. 12 2004
From: San Francisco
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RE: Installing RMC pick up (in reply to johnnefastis)
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I've had an RMC pickup installed in a student conde for at least twenty five years. I bought a new RMC preamp for it maybe five years ago. The individual saddles were not an issue. I had it installed by a pro but it was so long ago I don't remember who did it. I used to gig a lot with a band and needed the volume. It was a depressing situation, as I had to sacrifice tone for volume. As someone who has done tons of electric guitar gigs, sacrificing your personal sound is a horrendous compromise, one an electric guitarist would never make. Nevertheless, I worked on solutions, and the best I found was to also mike the guitar, and use a volume pedal to bring in the pickup when needed for single string solos. That way the ugly piezo tone wasn't part of my rhythm playing. Some reverb on the pickup helped too. I did find the RMC was better when supported by a professional engineer in a larger concert venue. I would say the frustration of not being able to get a really good sound had as much to do with me tabling my band after close to twenty years as anything else. A few years back the Tone Dexter was invented, and although I was pretty much done with gigging, I had to buy one just to see. It is a huge improvement on the tone of the RMC. Still not a mike, but together with an RMC, the tone dexter will give you a decent tone and all the volume you need. I had the whole midi guitar setup as well, with a pitch to midi converter and a sound module. Kinda cool to have the low E string trigger a synth pad while you are playing arpeggios. Way too much gear to haul and setup for a one night gig. If I had been at the level where I had tech help and was touring, it would have been worth it, but otherwise, it's a toy to play with at home.
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