![]() ![]() ![]() These permanent pickups give great acoustic sound and tone quality and can benefit from the use of a pre-amp (see further down). The Fishman V-300 Concert pickup for example has Piezo-ceramic pickups installed inside a Despiau bridge or the excellent Vio model by L R Baggs and made famous by fiddle virtuoso Mark O’Connor. Permanent pickups take the form of a replacement bridge which has embedded pickups which link via a wire to the output jack. This difficulty is offset however by the quality of the tone that you can get from them. Pickups mounted under the bridge could still be classed as temporary but are obviously more difficult to install / uninstall. These are easy to install and are certainly not short on tone. ![]() These can include a band-style version which is wrapped around the body just below the bridge, or bridge-mounted pick-ups.īridge-mounted pickups fit into the wing slots of the bridge, or they clip on to the side of it. If you don’t want / need to commit to permanent pick-ups you can choose temporary options. Although they fit onto the body they can be attached and removed without damage to the varnish using special putty. Like the clip-on they are easy to attach, but because they fit onto the body of the instrument they capture a great depth of tone, and you can move around with the instrument more than with a clip-on. These are also sometimes referred to as electro-dynamic transducers. Care does have to be taken though to make sure that the microphone isn’t too close to the amp when you play as this could produce feedback.Ī contact microphone fits to the top plate of the violin and is actually half way between a pickup and a microphone. Clip-on microphones are easy to install, relatively inexpensive, and can be very effective at capturing acoustic tones. You can of course buy an electric violin, but these can sound ‘electric’ rather than acoustic but louder, if you would simply like to amplify your acoustic violin here are some of the main options:įor minimal alterations to the instrument you could use a clip-on or a contact microphone. drums/brass or instruments that are amplified you may decide that you need to have the sound of your violin amplified. For public violin performances, and especially where there are other loud e.g. ![]()
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