#1339788 - 06/25/01 02:21 AM
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Sergievsky
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So I took my Larrivee C09 across the Pacific with plans on putting in a pick-up. LRBaggs' ibeam intrigued me, so I had it installed at the Amp Shop in LA. Great store by the way, gave me a GREAT deal on the thing, and it was a rush job too, and a great one at that, so I don't feel bad anymore for getting a hole drilled on the bottom of my acoustic for the endpin.
Anyway, I've only plugged it into my studio monitors, but it sounds GREAT! Of course, I'm a crappy guitarist (am a keyboardist trying hard), but I'm also a producer so I get pretty anal about my sounds. And plugged in I'm pretty excited with my guitar, a lot more now than when I first bought it. Of course it's now set up properly and I had Thomastik-Infeld Spectrum Bronze strings put in.
I also bought the ParaDI box and with it got quite a bit more varied sounds overall. Very natural sounds. Quite a bit more than when I hooked up a DiMarzio soundhole pickup. Without the DI I needed to turn on the 75hz low cut on my mixer, but hooked up to it all okay, which I thought was kinda strange.
But the best thing was the guitar did NOT get damaged from the long trip. Begged the airline to put it on their special section with all the persihables like ceramics and stuff, so it just travelled on it's original case and that was it. Whew. I'm a happy camper.
Good stuff dudes and dudettes. 
Raul
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#1339789 - 06/25/01 03:19 AM
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Tedster
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Thanks for the tip Raul...
BTW...seems like it's been awhile since we've heard from you...welcome back!
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#1339790 - 06/25/01 03:30 AM
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fantasticsound
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I'm very interested in the I-beam. I own a Blueridge guitar (Chinese made, built well, terrible setup, but the luthier that ordered it fixed that.) with an L.R. Baggs ribbon transducer. IMO, the Baggs is far better than the ever popular Fishman, which still picks up far too much of the fundamental and loses much of the complexity of an acoustic guitar.
The i-beam intrigues me because of Lloyd's mission on the product. He'd heard a VERY expensive, custom pickup system in one of Jackson Browne's guitars, was impressed, so he ordered the pickup to install on a guitar. He had very spotty performance and found the pickup to be difficult to install to his tonal satisfaction. He then set out to make it simpler, and easier to install. Oh, and MUCH less expensive.
Can you record and rip an MP3 of your acoustic sound with the I-beam? I'd love to hear even a garbage MP3 of the timbre.
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#1339792 - 06/25/01 08:25 PM
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fantasticsound
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Originally posted by Sergievsky:
Neil...I will definitely NOT let you hear me play guitar! (yet)  But I'm about to score a movie where I I would most likely need acoustic guitar tracks, so if I hire a REAL guitarist to play my C09 I'll post the recording, since it will most likely come straight out of the DI. They'll give me about a week (if I'm lucky) to score this thing so I should have it posted right after.
Raul
Thanks Raul, but you don't have to be shy, on guitar. I'm not Rock & Roll's answer to Roger Ebert!
(I'm Rock & Roll's answer to Gene Siskel! Only still alive and well in the midsouth!)
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