pickups are for guitars or lower-pitched instruments, such as upright basses or
cellos. Guitars are right in the middle, and can utilize either size depending on
your taste.
This product includes the following items:
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Balanced Acoustic Pickup, with
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Shielded low-capacitance cable
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¼” stereo output jack (installed)
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3 adhesive options:
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Adhesive putty
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Beeswax & rosin disc
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3M VHB adhesive disc
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Cable holder, to prevent the cable from banging against the
instrument’s top
Additional accessories are available through NeebSound, such as adapter
cables, preamplifiers, endpin jacks, and carpenter jacks.
Preamplifier Considerations
The Balanced Acoustic Pickup can plug directly into your existing piezo
preamplifier using a mono instrument cable. However, since most piezo preamps
are single-ended (unbalanced), you will get a little bit of noise. This is true of any
piezo pickup you would plug into such a preamp.
In order to get a really low noise floor, you can plug the pickup into a
balanced (differential) preamp capable of a very high input impedance.
NeebSound will start offering such a preamp for sale, called PiezoBuddy, in the
Summer of 2022. In the meantime, there are options on the market that will serve
the same purpose. Look for preamps designed for passive ribbon microphones.
Testing has been performed with the sE Electronics DM2 TNT preamp, but
other ribbon mic preamps may work just as well. If you do get a DM2 TNT
preamp, set the gain to 15dB and the impedance to 10M
Ω
. If you have a really
loud instrument, and notice some clipping, you can lower the impedance one
notch to 100k
Ω
. These preamps by sE Electronics are currently available from
several retailers for about $130.
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