Shadow Mandolin Pickup - made in Germany

Eight strings, brilliant sound but unfortunately much too quiet when you play live on stage with your band. This is the deplorable situation that faces most mandolin players who play in a bluegrass, folk or rock bands. What can you do?

So far, the solutions were passive piezo pickups for mandolins. Those are available either as transducers which stick to the instruments top or install in the mandolins bridge. So far, so good unfortunately, in many cases both ways sound like almost everything but not a mandolin. It sounded very synthetic and not authentic at all.

Instruments with a short scale and high string tension like mandolin cause another problem in combination with a bridge pickup. Every time your plectrum touches the string you will hear a click before you hear the actual tone. And when it gets down to business at the live gig it comes to an bad end: Because those passive piezo pickups only supply a little output signal your audience gets a lot of hissing and undesired feedback instead of pure mandolin tones. You have to be kidding!

Shadow solved all these problems in an active way: Based on Shadows innovative NanoMAG pickup technology emerges a unique quad pickup which unites four active NanoMAG pickups one for each pair of strings.

Because the NanoMAG doesnt reside in the bridge, you wont hear the annoying click as you do when you amplify your mandolin with a passive piezo pickup.

And the best feature: With the gain pots you are now able to adjust the output volume of each pair of strings individually and this guarantees a perfectly balanced output.

The electronics of the preamp hide elegantly underneath the supplied pick guard. With the volume, bass and treble controls you will be able to adjust your personal, acoustic sound easily. A high quality endpin jack with 6.3mm (1/4) output is supplied.

Now, your mandolin sounds like a mandolin: faithfully acoustic and pure mandolin sound. Annoying clicks, hissing, humming and feedback belong to the past, now. It is electro mando time!

SH 928 NMG-4 suits all mandolins that are built in typical teardrop style (A-type) while SH 927 NMG-4 suits bluegrass mandolins (F-type).

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Mandolin
• Folk
• Bluegrass
• Country
• R.E.M.
• Shakira
• banjo
• Dobro
• teardrop
• Shadow

[mudsharkbytes]

Needed to find a better mandolinist for this video, or at LEAST one that could keep his mando in tune. Those out-of-tune unisons really sound bad.

Nice pickup though!

[SuperExplorer7]

Hi there i have a new Shadow sonic double play i bought it 2 month ago i just install it this week and doesn't work rt the Nano mag pickup works but makes to much noise the Nano flex has problems with the connection sometimes works when i move the cables but it doesn't sound as loud as the Nano mag and is also noisy, i try several ways to contact shadow and no luck getting a respond plz help

[simon4tw]

Does this work for mandolas too?

[chelseane2007]

nice channel-- (godbyone) thanx

[thehubwiltshire]

hi all i have a Ashbury mandolin f style

i decided to take the rout of electrifying an acoustic as all the mandolins i have owned and gigged with left a lot to be desired after lots of research i chose Shadow Pickup

the biggest worry being that i had to drill a hole for the jack input .....it was not worth worrying about as this is the best sound i have ever had

it looks great feels solid and is very versatile...and sounds amazing whether through my marshal mg250 or my roland micro cube..5****

[Parf1Fran7]

I don't like the sound of this electrified hofner mandolin. No warmth enough!

[Irishd180]

Maybe its just the quality of the video but I thought the sound quality from the mando was poor enough...reminds me of the sound which comes from a cheap electric mando with the picup all ready fitted.

[flamenkin2]

Hello,

Do you have any video or audio clip of Shadow MEGASONIC 22?

Thank you.

greetings.

[Velkus96]

You have a great sense of humor :D

[sickMyduck1k]

WOW - this sounds GREAT!!! I have been trying to amplify my mandolin in a proper way for ages - so far without any good results. To adjust the volume control of each string and not having that annoying "click" when the plek hits the strings is just brilliant!