Author: Max S-D
Date: 2021-02-20 10:39
Are you already playing this style of music? It seems like you could learn to play in the style without the electronics, as I would imagine it has been done for most of its history.
If you are, and you are just looking for amplification, I've heard good things about the PiezoBarrel pickups. I think I have seen players around here (San Francisco area) use them live. http://piezobarrel.com/
Keep in mind that just about every pickup is going to have a pretty low output level, similar to an un-amplified electric guitar pickup. If you took the output of a pickup like the PiezoBarrel or the clip on above and ran it via a 1/4" to RCA converter, the signal would be pretty faint.
If I were doing this, I'd probably get a pickup, run the output into a USB audio interface that can take line-level or high-impedance (pickup level) input, run that into my computer and use Garageband or similar software to apply effects.
From there, I would either just use headphones and play along or run the audio back out from the computer into the aux input on the receiver, either via the computer's headphone jack or the audio interface's headphone/monitor output if it has one.
I don't have a specific recommendation for a USB audio interface, since I bought one 7 years ago that is no longer being made and I haven't shopped for another since.
It's been a while since I messed around with this stuff, so someone else can maybe correct me if I'm wrong.
I would be very cautious using your nice Harmon Kardon receiver that might not be expecting these kinds of input levels.
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