danieletarab - 4-11-2014 at 04:51 PM
Dear members,
This thread is about the common problem of amplyfing the oud!
I used the search engine of the website, and I made several exeriments myself.
As BRIAN PUNKA suggested, I bought a AKG c411 microphone; for those who don't know it, it's a very little condensor microphone that you stick on the
oud like you do with a standard piezo; it works with phantom power.
In a previous thread he showed a video of himself playng his oud with this microphone sticked inside the bowl (his oud doesn't have rosettes). It
sound very good.
I tried this microphone on my turunz oud, but since it does have rosettes, I had to stick it on the soundboard.
I am not very satisfied of the result; it's not bad, but it's not very good either!
So, I was thinking of putting an onboard mic or pick up (maybe the akg itself?), and using also an external microphone. My aim is to have the quality
and fidelity of the external microphone, and the "power" of an on board amplification.
I tried to play only with the external mic. The quality is good, but I can't really achieve a reasonable volume without feedback, no matter how I
place the mic or the speakers. Besides the external mic, I need an onboard amplification to get some power and volume.
Now, I would like to put inside a very good quality mic or piezo, no matter how it costs.
Of course I want to damage the oud as little as possible, and I can't go for a standard preamplified on board system as the ones used on acoustic
guitars.
Are there any little VERY GOOD dynamic mics (to put inside) with JACK output?
Or in alternative, any very good piezo like this?
Do you have any other suggestion?
Thank you for your attention, and soory for the long post!