We have various instruments for worship service-I need decent tone. Can I use this for common stringed instruments? Also, does it adhear to the inst
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I have only used these pickups on an acoustic guitar and ukulele. The tone is great! The pickup attaches to the instrument with a clay-like adhesive that comes with it. You may need to play around with location of the pickup in order to get the kind of sound you are looking for, kind of an individual preference.
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All I can add to what's been said is that the tone on my Banjo is fine, given the cost. There were other far more expensive pick ups. I would have higher expectations for them. For the price, this pick up peformed pretty good.
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This is a great pickup and makes great tone on an acoustic guitar, a classical nylon guitar, a ukulele, and an electric ukulele that I've tested it on. The putty is very sticky, but I recommend getting some more (I use Duck Poster Putty). Great for the price, easy to install and remove.
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You can use it for common stringed instruments. It does stick directly onto the instrument with a putty that is provided along with the pickup. The instructions recommend that you stick the pickup to the instrument each time you use it and then remove the pickup from the instrument when finished. I found this to be tedious, and I decided to leave the pickup stuck to my instrument while not in use. This may have been a bad decision - shortly thereafter, the pickup stopped working, and when I removed it I was not able to remove all of the residue from the putty.
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It will attach to almost any instrument and also comes off without leaving sticky residue. The tone is great!! You will be happy with it.
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Not sure, but I would say probably not as well as it would with a standard. In the standard the brass is hugging, and therefore deadening all across, and therefore all the strings evenly. With a compensated it would only touch the outermost presented parts of the bridge, dampening those strings in particular in a strong way, leaving the inner most sections probably free to vibrate more, so those strings might be louder. Though they might all be somewhat muted, but I think the effect would be unevenly distributed. Since you would want the volume of all strings to be equally damped (like it would usually work) I don't think this will work for you. Even if you got all rocket scientist on it and bent it to conform to the irregularities of the bridge, you'd then have a problem of not being able to slide that puppy ion and off, which is the great feature. I think you might need to get a couple violin type mutes that slip on vertically. One of the nice things about this mute is it really give a good tone, whereas violin mutes leave something to be desired. But if its a choice between practicing,.... and unhappy spouse, waking kids or bitchy neighbors...ya gotta do what ya gotta do...
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I use it for home enjoyment. I have seen the QChord used in a Leslie Gore tribute band and a polka band. Would it fit in a country gospel band? I'll say it depends on the person using it and what that person is trying to achieve soundwise. I got one based on seeing it in a live setting and thought it was cool.
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We use it at church for our pastor. It works for us very well when our pastor delivers sermon because he moves around while delivering sermon. But I am not sure how it would work for singing.
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I found it great for my 6 string acoustic and my 6 string electric with and without the amp. I am sure it will work with a 12 string as an "E" or "B" note should be the same no matter the number of strings.
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I use it with my guitar and can hear it over the strings. I then turn it down a little so if I hear the beat then my timng is off. Then sound of my stirngs block to click out. So it is quite ajustable. I suggest you go to a music store and try it out..
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I don't believe it would work in a church unless you were able to connect it to the church sound system and have the receiver pointed directly at where you are sitting. Any movement in front of the receiver will distort the sound.
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I would think, from my view and experience, that it would work fine for busking....hope it works as well for you as it has for me. One band I play in has a member that plays bass and guitar alternately though the amp while at an outside pub (which requires a bit of punch by itself) but this is vacation land at the outside patrons are a bit noisy and it seems to work fine. Don't know that I'd trust it to work where the crowd was larger or noisier. I wish I could give you a better gauge...but that's about as good as I can come to telling you from personal use how it's worked.
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It should, it's being used at a church (outside - Hawaii ) right now since someone decided they wanted our amplifier more than we did. Using a different microphone , the original was dropped. Also great for other gatherings have used it for back yard music. (A friend has one, she uses to sing with at a hospital)
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Hi, Unfortunately I do not know. I purchased it expressly to do guitar work. It does have a mic so I would think it would do fine. However. I believe it may be more suited to stringed instruments. that is a question best answered by Peterson. I am sure if this is not the right tuner for you, that they make something high quality and geared specifically for you.
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Hm, probably not too well. This microphone is designed as a mic for a tuner. It works great to plug directly into a tuner. it's OKAY to use as a contact microphone for amplification if you don't have any other options. I purchased it as a backup for just in case my classical guitar pickup goes out during the middle of a gig and I need amplification. The sound you'll get out of it is not very good, because isn't designed for that. But with a lot of EQ work, you can still get a decent sound at a very cheap price. I recommend keep looking around for a better mic for your bass, but if you have a little extra cash lying around, then it's definitely worth picking this one up to have a mediocre spare and just to see how it works.
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no, I checked on the peavey site to answer it for you, it is for acoustic, electric, or bass guitar. you would need a keyboard amp. did you want something for guitar and keyboard? you would probably need a bass amp if that's the case, but guitars don't sound that good through them, and they keyboard loses some of the high/treble sound through bass amps, I used one for my guitar and keyboard years ago, both didn't sound that good. depending on what you need it for, you should get 2 smaller amps, this thing is very very loud, I would get the larger amp of the one you use more, keyboard or guitar. if it's for live shows, they can mic the amp anyway, so technically you could have a really small amp, but with a mic and p.a. system or whatever, it would be as loud as all the other instruments
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I use it for my Roland small combo guitar amp, and it works well. With low quality music like from youtube, it wont play bass well. But for guitar, very great!
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Yes. It can be used on any string instrument. I am extremely satisfied with mine.
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Have used it on tenor banjo, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin. It works fine on any stringed instrument. Very accurate and is one of the few tuners that will work well on the low strings.
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I use it for trombone. Clipped to the bell. It won't tune anything lower than the F below the staff on bass clef.
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Truly, it is a matter of taste. I use it on cello, banjo, and mandolin. They all sound fantastic. I tried a clip on condenser - too much feedback. This was a great middle ground between a condenser and an actual pickup. It also depends on the context you play in. If you play with live acoustic drums, get this - no feedback issues. Also, keep in mind that a good external preamp will work wonders. The 411 itself sounds a bit unnatural, but a good external preamp will fix that and allow you to shape the sound to taste and in context. That being said, a phantom power supply and an external preamp aren't cheap. External gear can be as critical as the source, though. Truly, it is a matter of taste. I use it on cello, banjo, and mandolin. They all sound fantastic. I tried a clip on condenser - too much feedback. This was a great middle ground between a condenser and an actual pickup. It also depends on the context you play in. If you play with live acoustic drums, get this - no feedback issues. Also, keep in mind that a good external preamp will work wonders. The 411 itself sounds a bit unnatural, but a good external preamp will fix that and allow you to shape the sound to taste and in context. That being said, a phantom power supply and an external... » Read More Truly, it is a matter of taste. I use it on cello, banjo, and mandolin. They all sound fantastic. I tried a clip on condenser - too much feedback. This was a great middle ground between a condenser and an actual pickup. It also depends on the context you play in. If you play with live acoustic drums, get this - no feedback issues. Also, keep in mind that a good external preamp will work wonders. The 411 itself sounds a bit unnatural, but a good external preamp will fix that and allow you to shape the sound to taste and in context. That being said, a phantom power supply and an external preamp aren't cheap. External gear can be as critical as the source, though. « Show Less