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[wildplum]

Reading an older magazine, I came across this quote from Esteban (BTW the article is about recording acoustic guitar- not live sound), I quote from the magazine:

“The big secret to making classical guitar sound good is to router out the guitar and put the pickup under the saddle,” says Esteban, former prot

[Tim Halligan]

It's all about the sound of the instrument in the room.

The pickup removes the room from the equation.

To the best of my knowledge, there has NEVER been a serious recording of a classical guitar achieved with an under-saddle pickup ever.

Except maybe for Sky...but they were a rock band...and that may have been purely for effect.


Cheers,
Tim

[Strummer]

Then sell guitars and amps for 99 bucks and the world will be filled with excellent sound!

[Barry Hufker]

I can't imagine a serious classical guitar disc being made that way.

Barry

[MI]

Maybe for him...with that guitar...and sound HE was looking for.

But IMHO this is not the way to record Classical Guitar.

And actually I have the pleasure of working with a student of
Alvaro Pierri who is becoming a Master in his own right.

I've had another person with a Classical Guitar that had a pick up.
The only reason she did it was because she plays with a band live.
I told her she should've bought a cheaper guitar for live and
kept her hand made one for recording.

She regreted ever having done it. I could hear the change in tone.

MI

[Johns]

Are we talking about a classical guitar used for traditional acoustic music, or a nylon string guitar used in pop, rock, etc?

[mikelevitt]

Esteban is a charlatan only interested in selling $99 guitars on the shopping channels.

Not an expert on recording.

[Podgorny]

I read the quote from Esteban and had to wonder if this was a joke.

[johnR]

Apart from the fact that it would change the acoustic sound of the guitar, I've never heard an under-bridge piezo transducer (which I'm guessing is what's being discussed here) that didn't have a slight but irritating buzzy distortion mixed in with the sound.

[Schallfeldnebel]

Barry Hufker wrote on Thu, 24 December 2009 11:08

I can't imagine a serious classical guitar disc being made that way. Barry

With a pick-up the sound is unatural, we all know that, but also the dynamics get exaggerated. Dynamics can allready be a problem when you record guitars with omni's rather close.