Product: Shadow Electronics SH 2500E
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
06/11/2009
at
09:51am
by
Danno
Features
:
- This is a fairly credible sounding acoustic transducer pickup.
- There is no EQ and the pickup is not powered.
- Attention should be given to pickup placement and mounting method.
Instrument
:
- Yamaha FG-450S
... placed about 1" below the end of the bridge on the treble e side, approximately between the bridge and the front end of the soundhole, using a thin layer of tacky adhesive gum to mount it.
Sound
:
8
- Fairly credible reproduction of the actual acoustic sound, as if the guitar was not plugged in
- Passive - so it is fairly resistant to overpowering anything even when you strum hard ... not so weak that it cannot be recorded, but certainly not as loud as, say, an active undersaddle piezo pickup
- Of course, you can always hook it up to an EQ externally
- It is not very good at resisting feedback in my setup - but that may be just my setup ... I use a Peavey Delta Blues tube amp with a 15" speaker, rather than a PA, and I probably play too close to it
Overall Rating
:
8
- It's pretty good at what it does ... credible acoustic sound at little cost ; but it's pretty old school.
- Even Shadow Electronics seems to think so.
- Their new Nanoflex system seems promising, although the price is obviously higher.
- Still ... it does it's just of simply reproducing acoustic sound fairly well, and is more like a mic than a piezo - i.e. you can pickup knocks on the guitar body more accurately than the piezo.
- For what it IS, a simple passive pickup, I'll give this an 8.
