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Barbera Transducer Systems
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2012
Best Acoustic Guitar Pickup | Reviewed by Mark Leggett
Mark Leggett recently sent us this great little demo of him doing a direct recording into Protools using our Soloist pickup in his Ryan flat top acoustic guitar. In the video he briefly explains the basics of our acoustic guitar pickup system and how the actual saddle itself is the pickup.
Barbera Acoustic Guitar Pickups provide each string with its own micro transducer structure without relying on batteries or even a preamp, (and without degrading the acoustic performance of the guitar) A preamp is not needed when plugging into any hi Z musical instrument level input (high impedance /one megaohm or higher). However, because Mark is recording direct into a computer software which has a lowZ input stage Mark used a Preamp to provide the hiZ input stage. Using a preamp as a buffer when plugging into a lowZ input stage preserves all the rich frequency response and tonal nuances. The preamp is not for gain, just for preserving frequency response.
Each Soloist pickup is calibrated by hand multiple times to reach perfect string to string output balances, with minimal noise and maximum power and fidelity. A pickup should be something just as well made as an guitar itself. This is what we aim for.
Every pickup has over ten hours of human time put into it. A good amount of that time is handcrafting the patented internal acoustic structure of the saddle. And the rest is actual playing of the pickup on test instruments. Every pickup is played and adjusted at-least three to four times before being ready for sale.
This is what makes Barbera pickups fundamentally unique. Real musicians test these devices for quality, so the customer can grab their acoustic guitar and know they’ll be getting a great, organic sound. So thanks again to Mark for sending us this video.
You can check out more videos like this on our channel and facebook page. And to learn more about the pickup system in-depth you can visit our website here - www.barberatransducers.com/ Thanks for watching!
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Barbera Acoustic Guitar Pickups provide each string with its own micro transducer structure without relying on batteries or even a preamp, (and without degrading the acoustic performance of the guitar) A preamp is not needed when plugging into any hi Z musical instrument level input (high impedance /one megaohm or higher). However, because Mark is recording direct into a computer software which has a lowZ input stage Mark used a Preamp to provide the hiZ input stage. Using a preamp as a buffer when plugging into a lowZ input stage preserves all the rich frequency response and tonal nuances. The preamp is not for gain, just for preserving frequency response.
Each Soloist pickup is calibrated by hand multiple times to reach perfect string to string output balances, with minimal noise and maximum power and fidelity. A pickup should be something just as well made as an guitar itself. This is what we aim for.
Every pickup has over ten hours of human time put into it. A good amount of that time is handcrafting the patented internal acoustic structure of the saddle. And the rest is actual playing of the pickup on test instruments. Every pickup is played and adjusted at-least three to four times before being ready for sale.
This is what makes Barbera pickups fundamentally unique. Real musicians test these devices for quality, so the customer can grab their acoustic guitar and know they’ll be getting a great, organic sound. So thanks again to Mark for sending us this video.
You can check out more videos like this on our channel and facebook page. And to learn more about the pickup system in-depth you can visit our website here - www.barberatransducers.com/ Thanks for watching!
Follow Us
Facebook: www.Facebook.com/BarberaTransducerSystems
Site: www.BarberaTransducerSystems.com
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John Knowles - Goodnight My Angel
มุมมอง 32K10 ปีที่แล้ว
John is playing his Kirk Sand Signature model guitar with a Barbera Transducer Systems Soloist model acoustic guitar pickup. He is going through an AER Domino amp. The microphone was placed apx. 3 feet in front of the amp speaker on the floor. www.barberatransducers.com www.sandguitars.com
John Knowles - Soloist Pickup Acoustic/Amplified Comparison
มุมมอง 23K10 ปีที่แล้ว
John is playing his Kirk Sand Signature model guitar with a Barbera Transducer Systems Soloist model acoustic guitar pickup. He is going through an AER Domino amp. The microphone was placed apx. 3 feet in front of the amp speaker on the floor. www.barberatransducers.com www.sandguitars.com
John Knowles - The Nearness of You
มุมมอง 109K10 ปีที่แล้ว
John is playing his Kirk Sand Signature model guitar with a Barbera Transducer Systems Soloist model acoustic guitar pickup. He is going through an Acoustic Image Amp head and a Buscarino Chameleon speaker. The microphone was placed apx. 3 feet in front of the amp speaker on the floor. www.barberatransducers.com www.sandguitars.com
John Knowles - Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
มุมมอง 20K10 ปีที่แล้ว
John is playing his Kirk Sand Signature model guitar with a Barbera Transducer Systems Soloist model acoustic guitar pickup. He is going through an Acoustic Image Amp head and a Buscarino Chameleon speaker. The microphone was placed apx. 3 feet in front of the amp speaker on the floor. www.barberatransducers.com www.sandguitars.com
John Knowles Session Intro
มุมมอง 92010 ปีที่แล้ว
John is playing his Kirk Sand Signature model guitar with a Barbera Transducer Systems Soloist model acoustic guitar pickup. He is going through an Acoustic Image Amp head and a Buscarino Chameleon speaker. The microphone was placed apx. 3 feet in front of the amp speaker on the floor. www.barberatransducers.com www.sandguitars.com
John Knowles - Las Palmas
มุมมอง 6K10 ปีที่แล้ว
John is playing his Kirk Sand Signature model guitar with a Barbera Transducer Systems Soloist model acoustic guitar pickup. He is going through an Acoustic Image Amp head and a Buscarino Chameleon speaker. The microphone was placed apx. 3 feet in front of the amp speaker on the floor. www.barberatransducers.com www.sandguitars.com
John Knowles - My Funny Valentine
มุมมอง 23K10 ปีที่แล้ว
John is playing his Kirk Sand Signature model guitar with a Barbera Transducer Systems Soloist model acoustic guitar pickup. He is going through an Acoustic Image Amp head and a Buscarino Chameleon speaker. The microphone was placed apx. 3 feet in front of the amp speaker on the floor. www.barberatransducers.com www.sandguitars.com
Ken Hatfield - "Meroe"
มุมมอง 4.7K12 ปีที่แล้ว
Gear: Guitar - Buscarino Cabaret, Pickup Barbera Soloist Pickup with Pendulum external endpin jack preamp, Amp- Acoustic Image Clarus with AER powered speaker and Buscarino Chameleon speaker. Audio recorded live to 2 track stereo with mics placed apx 6 feet in front of the amp speakers. www.barberatransducers.com/ www.buscarino.com/ www.acousticimg.com/
Gene Bertoncini - "My One and Only Love"
มุมมอง 26K12 ปีที่แล้ว
Guitar - Buscarino Cabaret, Pickup - Barbera Soloist Pickup with Barbera onboard preamp, Amp - Acoustic Image Clarus 2R head and Buscarino Chameleon speakers. Audio recorded live to 2 track stereo with mics placed apx 6-8 feet in front of the amp speakers. www.barberatransducers.com/ www.buscarino.com/ www.acousticimg.com/
Romero Lubambo - "Song for Kaya"
มุมมอง 58K12 ปีที่แล้ว
Guitar - Prenkert Guitars, Pickup - Barbera Soloist Pickup with Barbera external endpin preamp, Amp - Acoustic Image Clarus 2R head and Buscarino Chameleon speakers. Audio recorded live to 2 track stereo with mics placed apx 6-8 feet in front of the amp speakers. www.barberatransducers.com/ www.prenkertguitars.com/ www.buscarino.com/ www.acousticimg.com/
Gene Bertoncini - "A Medley of Standards"
มุมมอง 46K12 ปีที่แล้ว
Gear: Guitar - Buscarino Cabaret, Pickup - Barbera Soloist Pickup with Barbera onboard preamp, Amp - Acoustic Image Clarus 2R head and Buscarino Chameleon speakers. Audio recorded live to 2 track stereo with mics placed apx 6-8 feet in front of the amp speakers. www.barberatransducers.com/ www.buscarino.com/ www.acousticimg.com/
Lubambo, Bertoncini and Hatfield - "Corcovado"
มุมมอง 58K12 ปีที่แล้ว
Gear: Romero Lubambo; Guitar - Prenkert Guitars, Pickup - Barbera Soloist Pickup with Barbera external endpin preamp, Amp - Acoustic Image Clarus 2R head and Buscarino Chameleon speakers. Gene Bertoncini; Guitar - Buscarino Cabaret, Pickup - Barbera Soloist Pickup with Barbera onboard preamp, Amp - AER Domino Ken Hatfield; Guitar - Buscarino Cabaret, Pickup Barbera Soloist Pickup with Pendulum ...
Romero Lubambo, Gene Bertoncini, and Ken Hatfield - "What's New"
มุมมอง 11K12 ปีที่แล้ว
Romero Lubambo; Guitar - Prenkert Guitars, Pickup - Barbera Soloist Pickup with Barbera external endpin preamp, Amp - Acoustic Image Clarus 2R head and Buscarino Chameleon speakers. Gene Bertoncini; Guitar - Buscarino Cabaret, Pickup - Barbera Soloist Pickup with Barbera onboard preamp, Amp - AER Domino Ken Hatfield; Guitar - Buscarino Cabaret, Pickup Barbera Soloist Pickup with Pendulum extern...
Lubambo, Bertoncini, and Hatfield - "All The Things You Are"
มุมมอง 4K12 ปีที่แล้ว
Lubambo, Bertoncini, and Hatfield - "All The Things You Are"
Lubambo, Bertoncini, and Hatfield - "Alone Together"
มุมมอง 5K12 ปีที่แล้ว
Lubambo, Bertoncini, and Hatfield - "Alone Together"
❤
The pickup sounds terrible
🎸🙏
🎸🙏
ele é um genio.
Still lovely. ❤️
Gorgeous. Thank you, John Knowles for generously sharing your gift.
Beautiful venue … cough-free!
Três mestres da música! Sublime!!!!❤❤❤
Fantástico.
The balance between the harmonics and the picked strings is not equally amplified. Is there a way to adjust that? I don't think a single notch filter will accomplish this. I've never hear this issue before... Wonderful playing! It reminds me of the great Charlie Byrd who I met in Buffalo at a gig around 1979. You look a bit like him as well. He was a very kind and gentle artist - no ego. I'm thinking of buying a Barbera Transducer for my Takamine Santa Fe nylon string guitar. It has what I consider the absolute best preamp ever - The Takamine CoolTube... yes, a tube inside the guitar. It eats batteries like mad though. I upgraded to his preamp and will never go back to anything lesser. It adds beautiful non-fundamental frequencies to the tone. I can even drive it into distortion, which is not something I do with this guitar. I sometimes record with this guitar and use an amp sim in my DAW and people think I recorded with an electric hollow-body Jazz guitar. I'm thinking that the piezo element could be better, and the Barbera looks like the best engineered I've seen. I have a Godin electric guitar with RMC pickups on each string, as well as two magnetic humbuckers, but while the RMCs are great for an electric, I'm not sure about their application in a nylon string guitar. It would a bit of work to add 6 RMS piezos and a mixer/multiplexer to combine them all. The Barber looks like way less work for me. What preamp do you use in this guitar? Or are you going straight into a DI or into the AER amp? I love my Neve RNDI DI - the very best I've found and doesn't break the bank. I play mostly Bossa Nova and Sambas on this guitar - similar to your recording but not at your level. I play several other instruments, so I'm not 100% focused on being the best guitarist on the planet. But I want to sound my best possible! Any experiences you can share?
Soberbo!!!
i love this tune. that second verse with the accompanied melody. beautiful
Very nice version of this piece. John's not only a great guitarist the guy has a PhD in Physics. WOW!
Ok
1:25 this is amazing!
John knows a beautiful song when he hears it, and arranges it for the guitar in a manner that it has even more beauty. There's a reason John was one of the first to be awarded a "CGP" by Mister Guitar himself, Chet Atkins.
Esse é mestre.. violonista de mão cheia ... toca com uma técnica de guitarrista... mas é um mestre...
Amazing!!!!👍🎸
Exalant
Beautiful sound and great arrangement. Which guitar tuning are you using? It seems CGCFAD, isn't it?
fantastic...bravo
Eso!
Uhu, nessas horas corre no sangue brasileiro o ritmo da bossa.
Can I have the chords copy of this please...
Maravilhoso !!!!
Simplesmente um monstro! Um previlegio poder ouvir essa interpretação 👏👏👏
First Class!!! No secrets on strings.
Genial!!!
A true pleasure for the ears, this, his music can indeed caress the soul.
A beautiful rendition. Gene Bertoncini also used uses the Barbera Transducer System. Both John and Gene are national treasures.
Nice fingerstyle Sir, what is your name guitar?
Beautifully executed John. You have all the right notes .. The bass note harmony are like Billy lpays on the piano that add to the feel of this wonderful composition. Very well done. I too play this with a sand guitar.. fine instruments.
Sounds great Mark. How would you rate the barberas handling of initial attack transients compared to LRBaggs Anthem system ? Much appreciated, Joseph
Eso es!
Nice playing but terrible buzzy piezo-electric tone..People must have cloth ears to put up with it.
Bravissimo!!!
I like his sneakers they look comfortable
What is this garbage? They are all playing so poorly. It's embarrasing. 🤦
1:24, the lead-up to the recapitulation...mercy.
I never tire of this beautiful song. Thank you for your wonderful performance John
Gene is one of the greatest!
um arraso!!
Beautiful
Excelente .bonita musica . Hace que el sentimiento alcance el entendimiento del amor .
This is why I never play through anyone's sound system but my simple Henricksen amp and Sh-57 mic. There was an incredible amount of buzz and other sounds on this, most of which I'm sure this wonderful guitarist was not responsible for. He would have sounded better with no 'help'. Nice playing, anyway.
Um arraso, grande interpretação. Uma música com muitos movimentos e que o artista tem que ter arte, habilidade, coração e bom gosto. Parabéns Romero.
I didn't know him, now I will
stupendus
Romero e una assumidade é uma féra e um dos mais conceituados músico brasileiro no mundo inteiro e um crak 🎼🎵🎶🎵🎶