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Recording pics

Beginning work on the 2nd Pillowfish album. Recording the zouk with a stereo pair of hypercardiod mics in 60deg XY, and a single 414 as a different sound option.

Recording the Zouk

Recording the Zouk

pickup mounting on a Stephen Owsley Smith zouk

I thought i’d start this blog straight in with some info about how i mounted my lace sensor bronze acoustic magnetic soundhole pickup in my Stephen Owsley Smith bouzouki.

The problem with off the shelf soundhole pickups is that they mount on the soundboard, damping it, and secondarily that they block too much of the soundhole. [...]