Schatten HFN-C-Artist II+1 Classic Guitar Pickup/Preamp

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Price: $151.96    

Product Feature

• Works with All Nylon-string Guitars
• Active System, Includes Artist II Preamp
• Can be Remotely Powered
• Easy to Install
• Full Two-year Warranty

Product Description

"The sound of this new guitar pickup is as close to that of a good quality mic as you've ever heard from a guitar pickup......" The HFN-C models give you a sound that is much more realistic and acoustic than anything that you have ever experienced before. More realism in attack, more realism in overall response, these pickups actually allow your instrument to sound just as good plugged in as it does unplugged. The only thing missing from the HFN-C in a classical is the 'quack' that everyone has come to expect and accept in classical acoustic pickups. As well, there is nothing artificial about the sound of the HFN-C's and the usual under the saddle sound is replaced with the actual acoustic sound of the instrument. The HFN-C piezo sensing unit fits inside the instrument and spans the center brace or reinforcement strip. Due its' design, this series of pickups produces sound much closer to that of a good microphone than any under the saddle pickup or bridge replacement pickup that you've ever heard. Artist II Preamp The HFN-C Artist pickups include the new Artist II preamp, a high quality dual channel preamp built right into the endpin jack. This pickup can be used with or without an external preamp/eq/mixer, or can be plugged directly into your amp or PA system. The Artist II preamp is a dual channel preamp with the HFN pickup wired to one channel. The other channel is available for a second pickup, such as a magnetic pickup. Trim pots are provided to control the gain for each channel separately to allow balancing of the signals from two pickups. The signals are then blended into a pre-mixed mono output.

Schatten HFN-C-Artist II+1 Classic Guitar Pickup/Preamp Review

I picked this one for my luthier-made classical because I could install it myself, I liked not having to worry about a pre-amp battery or a direct box and I hoped that its output would -- as described in the promo copy -- reflect the quality of the instrument. In every respect I was satisfied. Mind you, this thing does not accurately reproduce the sound of your guitar; and even though it's the best transducer I've heard, it's still only a transducer. A more realistic live sound can be gotten by using this in combination with a condenser mic [bass rolled off]. Now I also own a La Patrie classical with a saddle pickup/soundhole mic combo and it does sound more like "a guitar" over the speakers. But when I play my good guitar through this Schatten, I not only have a more expressive instrument in my hands, but enough of the guitar's natural resonance is reproduced over the speakers that I sense more of the subtleties in my playing coming through. Even through it sounds like a different instrument, it still expresses. The volume control I use pretty much to mute and unmute, as it isn't possible to see where it's set in between -- though I suppose one could add markings of some kind.

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