a_arnold -> RE: soundportparty in my patio (May 7 2010 9:11:31)
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Hey..you stealin' my idea Tony? (page 1) Hey Ron -- great minds think alike, I guess. Sorry, I must have missed that. A few months ago I tried taking apart an audiotechnica lapel mic system -- even in the plastic case the belt pack would fit inside a soundhole. I was thinking I could build a soundhole-mounted clamp that would hold the beltpack, but it interfered with the sound of the guitar too much. Sounded terrible when not amplified (it covered too much of the soundhole). Plus the controls and battery access were still a problem. I would have had to unmount it to turn it off and on. Everything was mounted directly to an integrated circuit. I called a bunch of people who make lapel mics and in-guitar mics, and suggested that they might have a market if they could make a system like the Miniflex 2mic model 1 or 2 (reviewed at acousticguitar.com/newgear) and add transmitter electronics, (and maybe a AAA battery access tube through the endpin?) all controlled by a Fisher-style dial inside the soundhole. I'm not sure they actually have anybody who has influence over product development, so I doubt anybody even passed on the suggestion. The miniflex system is built for guitars, and so is good at eliminating feedback and has the advantage of a mounting tool that reaches through an endpin hole up to the soundhole to make mounting easy and does no damage to the guitar. Quick and easy. But no transmitter. So now I'm thinking the soundport is a better location because you wouldn't even have to drill an endpin hole, but the audiotechnica beltpack is too big to fit the usual soundport (if there is a "usual" soundport after this thread). And anyway, audiotechnica is really a public speaking lapel mic system -- which is what the Paco Pena cuadro uses, also the Noche Flamenca group -- but it leaves you tethered to the guitar and has a feedback problem at high volume. The miniflex system has the 2 mics mechanically (not electronically) out of phase to cut down feedback. I think the gooseneck wires are different lengths. I haven't tried very hard to get anyone interested, but I'd say there would be a huge audience for an endpin-mounted system like the miniflex but with added transmitter and a soundhole side clip with an on-off-volume control wheel (invisible, inside the soundhole but reachable by a finger). The market would be basically every acoustic guitar player on the planet. The market for a soundport-mounted system would be much smaller, bcz fewer people have soundports. Although mounting and demounting would be a snap. I wonder how miniflex would react to a petition signed by a lot of guitarists from places like the foro?
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