Headway Piezo vs Fishman Blend

Recently got a Fishman Blend to try out on my Fylde. The Fylde comes stock with a Headway FEQ.1 piezo, which I've always found a little sterile (as with all piezos) during gigs, so decided to find a used Fishman Blend to compare it against. The blend here is set to around 60% mic, 40% pickup. Both used the same EQ settings on the preamp.

The original thing played here goes into an Award Session GG10 preamp, then Echo Audiofire4/reverb, back out to the camera (Kodak Zi8). Apologies for the sound compression, blame the camera...

See http://www.josienneclarke.co.uk for gigs and other stuff

Category:

Music

Tags:

• fishman
• blend
• headway
• pickup
• fylde
• guitar
• acoustic
• acoustic guitar
• fingerpicking

[Uhmsters]

do you like the echo audio fire 4?

[benwalker99]

@Uhmsters yep - I've had it for a few years. Works great.

[shuurai2000]

Hey, the sustain / reverb is quite strong. Is this going through a filter? Or is the pickup naturally great?

[benwalker99]

@shuurai2000 no filter beyond the EQ settings on the GG10 preamp. The camera also has a habit of compressing everything, so it sounds a bit squashed especially the reverb tail...

[121jigawatts]

Sounds pretty good but I'm actually suprised how good the Headway sounded. I think you are rght the camera compressed the sound of the Fishman a little much though. Have you tried recording your audio on a separate track and then editing with the video?

[DaveTigheMusic]

Nice playing and very nice composition. thanks

[animegitarre]

nice ^^

[seanybarrow]

Fishman is nicer, i think anyway :)

[Jenxxie]

Both sound rather fine to me, Ben ... and wonderful playing too, if i may say.

Nice post.  Great stuff :)

[bigalli100]

you play well and the guitar is sweet with both brand of pickup thanks for posting ,,,,