Recent content by Matthias Grob

great report, Dave! interesting in this context that the feedback soundhole plug somehow makes the switch from the acoustic to a hybrid or hollow electric (or what?) guitar - which does not sound totally different but brings some ease on stage :-)

this "new generation" (the first I remember was the Gibson Chet Attkins about 1983) may have some more resonances to make it sound acoustic when its connected, but not enough to be heard and thus not to create feedback problems. As you say, the piezo pickup is a lot more authentic than the...

if I understand right you suggest to define that: acoustic music is played by or composed for acoustic instruments and acoustic instruments are designed to sound without electricity but are often electronically amplified to be heard accordingly: electric instruments vibrate mechanically but...

that would be nice, but unfortunately, all shows that are announced as unplugged are electrically amplified while the ones really without electricity like classical music never talk about unplugged, do they?

ok, this simplifies, but it makes the word useless and we need a new word, because on what stage no electricity is needed nowadays? and if well amplified, it can sound pretty much the same as without electricity, so what is the point? the new word would probably describe a kind of music that...

this question is especially interesting to me since we have been working decades to clean the ways human expressions turn into meaningful and comfortable sound - searching bridges between body, mechanics, electricity and acoustics! as it seems, the common effort of the music industry managed to...

the Poly idea was implemented by Paradis in 1989 and reissued in 2016 as Invalid Link Removed. it contains 3 octave dividers for the 3 lowest strings and can select the lowest played string to form only one bass line. it needs a hexaphonic (polyphonic) pickup but the result is a lot cleaner and...

Hi! I made those pickups in the beginning of the 90ies the most frequent reason is that something hits on the string. i would not know how to protect the cristal better without interfering with sound or playing quality. once its broken it still works but less. another reason is a conductive...