Comments on: Microphones? Why would you ever use a microphone? https://www.preservationsound.com/microphones-why-would-you-ever-use-a-microphone/ information and ideas about audio history Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:11:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: triple d https://www.preservationsound.com/microphones-why-would-you-ever-use-a-microphone/#comment-188239 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:11:16 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=3484#comment-188239 this suck but useful:)

]]> By: Roger Russton https://www.preservationsound.com/microphones-why-would-you-ever-use-a-microphone/#comment-7097 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:24:56 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=3484#comment-7097 The Barcus Berry was a godsend for folkies and such that played nylon string guitars in church and busking. It gave them an electric sound that wouldn’t have given Segovia a diamond cutter, true, but through a guitar amp or PA at reasonable volume it worked fine. Frank Zappa used to put them on his electric guitars in addition to the regular pickups and mix the sounds. He would put two of them on, one at the bridge and one at the peghead. Sometimes this worked great, and when it didn’t you just unplugged or turned those pickups off.

If you have an electric with a good bridge setup-that disqualifies most all of them-it can be a very seductive thing indeed. Fender used to sell some cheapie Strat and Tele shaped thin bodied acoustics with bolt on necks and if you knew what you were doing those could be used for that same thing, except they didn’t have regular pickups.

Danny Ferrington was a total dick, but he had this idea before anyone else. Don’t know what happened to him.

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