Just interested to know what pickup you used on your fiddle for the Bill Bailey gig?

Hey! Anyone know what setup Benet M-cLean uses? like what kind of pickup, preamp, etc. give such a clean tone. it sounds amazing, of course his technique helps a lot too haha 😄 see below as an example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf5vxrhyHPw thanks

I need to get a pre amp to go with my Baggs pickip on my violin, that is: not too expensive techno idiot friendly simple to set up and use. Any suggestions?

Hey Matt, I saw Pierre Blanchard with the Django Festival Allstars last night. My god, what a show! Blanchard had such an incredible tone. I just loved his amplified sound. Some combination of a pickup and overhead mic combined with a small stage amp and, (of course, a lifetime of experience and huge heart at his fingertips ) but do happen to know what his stage set up is?

Over the years I’ve gone through a lot of different stages in my amplification journey as a jazz violinist. In an ideal world, I wouldn’t amplify the violin at all. We spend so much time practising to get our sound from the instrument itself, and when we practise, we’re not plugged in. So it can feel weird when we have to amplify, like it’s not quite the sound we’re used to. I went through a phase of always using a microphone, trying to find a way to get the most natural sound possible. But as we all know, you just end up feeding back all the time and struggling to play. It only really works in the right setting. Nowadays, when I do a gig where a microphone is going to work well, like a concert with a sound engineer and a decent PA, they usually have something for me anyway, like a DPA or a live condenser mic on a stand in front of me. If I’m not in that kind of setting, I use my pickup instead. I set it so the amp is just a bit quieter than my acoustic sound. That way I can still play how I play, without having to change my bow pressure to suit the pickup sound. If I’m in a really loud environment, with a loud drummer, a big band, or playing background in a busy bar, I just embrace the pickup sound and turn it up. I’ve spent a long time working on playing in these situations, practising at home using less bow and getting used to that sound and feel. With that said, these are the current products that I have: - Schertler Stat V - Thomann Violin Microphone What’s your current setup?