Sergievsky Posted June 25, 2001 Share Posted June 25, 2001 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. http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/smile.gif Raul Raul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedster Posted June 25, 2001 Share Posted June 25, 2001 Thanks for the tip Raul... BTW...seems like it's been awhile since we've heard from you...welcome back! "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantasticsound Posted June 25, 2001 Share Posted June 25, 2001 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. ------------------ Neil Reality: A few moments of lucidity surrounded by insanity. It's easiest to find me on Facebook. Neil Bergman Soundclick fntstcsnd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergievsky Posted June 25, 2001 Author Share Posted June 25, 2001 Thanks for the welcome Ted. One thing about making a living as an arranger, there are times where I have absolutely NO work and NO money, and times like these past few months where work just PILES on, mostly because I can't turn down any work because the times with NO work will come around again sooner or later. Anyway, this is the reason I have decided I really needed to move beyond playing chords on a guitar. Guitar sample cds just don't cut it, and when you gotta write a guitar chart for a show translating from the keyboard also doesn't cut it. Neil...I will definitely NOT let you hear me play guitar! (yet) http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/redface.gif 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 Raul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantasticsound Posted June 26, 2001 Share Posted June 26, 2001 Originally posted by Sergievsky: Neil...I will definitely NOT let you hear me play guitar! (yet) http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/redface.gif 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!) ------------------ Neil Reality: A few moments of lucidity surrounded by insanity. It's easiest to find me on Facebook. Neil Bergman Soundclick fntstcsnd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedster Posted June 26, 2001 Share Posted June 26, 2001 Yep, no one's critiquing anyone's chops here...certainly not me. The New York Dolls made quite a killing out of not being able to play the guitar... http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/biggrin.gifhttp://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/biggrin.gifhttp://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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