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Keith
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Stickup pick up question
Those who have a Stickup pickup:
Is it possible to process the two signals from the Stickup into one signal into a single input?
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Fri Sep 09, 2016 8:29 am |
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heartstrings
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Joined: Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:22 am Posts: 800 Location: Austin, TX
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Re: Stickup pick up question
Absolutely. Just get yourself a small mixer or preamp and run both sides of the Stick into it. You'll be able to EQ the bass and melody separately and set output levels for each side. From the mixer, you just run mono out to your amp.
If you just have a single channel amp and no mixer or preamp, a Y adapter will provide a quick and dirty solution. It does the job, but sucks a whole lot of tone and volume out of the signal.
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Fri Sep 09, 2016 8:52 am |
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Captain Strings
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Joined: Thu May 30, 2013 2:45 pm Posts: 792 Location: Sylmar, California
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Re: Stickup pick up question
This is the ticket if you got a few bucks laying around. Unlike a tabletop mixer, it fits in the zipper pocket of your gig bag and runs on batteries. It'd be especially good for fly gigs where you're never quite sure what kind of amp will be provided. http://www.sfxsound.co.uk/sp2/ check out the Andy Salvanos sound samples. He plays a stickup thru one of these and recommended it to me. Pretty clean and fat. http://andysalvanos.bandcamp.com/track/summer Plus some of my favorite combo amps for Stick are mono and have only one input jack like the Fender Steel King. http://www.musiciansfriend.com/amplifie ... ductDetail
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Fri Sep 09, 2016 9:17 am |
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Keith
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Re: Stickup pick up question
Thanks Matt and Capin' That SP2 from SFX looks like a great unit to have especially with the Stickup - Might put that on my wishlist for a future rig build - Have been looking at getting a couple Radial SB-2's for the front end of my signal path. http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/StageBug2Kb
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Fri Sep 09, 2016 9:25 am |
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ArmyDoc
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Joined: Thu Nov 26, 2015 9:03 am Posts: 244 Location: Augusta GA
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Re: Stickup pick up question
Keith wrote: Thanks Matt and Capin' That SP2 from SFX looks like a great unit to have especially with the Stickup - Might put that on my wishlist for a future rig build - Have been looking at getting a couple Radial SB-2's for the front end of my signal path. http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/StageBug2Kb Not sure about this, but I thought with passive pick-ups you wanted an active pre-amp like the Radial SB-1 or SB-4. http://www.radialeng.com/stagebug.phphttp://www.radialeng.com/stagebugsb4.php
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Fri Sep 09, 2016 10:48 am |
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Gnat
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Joined: Wed Mar 18, 2009 2:58 pm Posts: 242 Location: indianapolis
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Re: Stickup pick up question
yes i run my dual inputs to a A/B box and that signal then goes into my tuner and through the rest of my pedals
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Fri Sep 09, 2016 11:16 pm |
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Keith
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Re: Stickup pick up question
Doc, That would make sense that the passive Stickup would use an active not passive DI so maybe the SB-4 since it's got a high input impedance of 5 MOhms right..?
Gnat, What type pickup do you use? What type or brand A/B?
Thanks all - Kb
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Sun Sep 11, 2016 8:46 am |
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Keith
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Re: Stickup pick up question
I know this subject has already been discussed and is elementary to a lot of people but I'm just learning it now... Find below from Radial: http://www.radialeng.com/pdfs/Selecting ... r-bass.pdfSo for my passive Stickup the first step in my signal path will be a couple of Radial "active" SB-4's or an equivalent item like the SP-2... Any additional thoughts? Kb
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Sun Sep 11, 2016 10:20 am |
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ArmyDoc
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Joined: Thu Nov 26, 2015 9:03 am Posts: 244 Location: Augusta GA
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Re: Stickup pick up question
I can only tell you what I've read and what I've done... From what I've read the SB-4 should work. What I did was get a used acoustic crate amp. It has an input impedance of 3.3 MOhm and works great. At only $300, it wasnt too expensive either. If he'd had one in stock, I would have looked at the fishman loudbox artist.
I need to focus on learning to play first...if I only play for small groups and /or acoustic sets, I dont really need anything else, so I should be set for a long time.
I did try a few low impedance amps (was looking for a really cheap practice option) really had to crank up the vollume and tone was thinner, but usable. But adding two preamps would have put me in the same price range, and speaker was much smaller so probable still not as nice a sound.
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Mon Sep 12, 2016 4:49 am |
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greg
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Joined: Sat Dec 22, 2007 3:07 pm Posts: 7088 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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Re: Stickup pick up question
I have one of these: It does not seem to negatively impact the tone..
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Mon Sep 12, 2016 6:14 am |
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