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Location: Scotland | Davey, I'm personally not a big fan of internal mikes. A guitars tone develops several feet away from the instrument & internal mikes always sound gutless & colored to me. Plus they can be a nightmare unless you are prepared to spend serious money on a) a really good mike (Countryman, Telex) and b)some really good EQ. The feedback threshold with internal mikes is very low & finding a sweetspot inside the guitar isn't easy. Get the mike in the wrong place & you'll have a horrible tone and/or serious feedback. If you must have a mike'd tone I'd recommend a good condenser such as an AKG C1000S or Rode NT3, mounted on a stand. Use the piezo for your basic tone & get some "air" from the mike. If you are using monitors have only the piezo coming through them, not the mike, as this will lower the feedback threshold considerably. The room & sound system will dictate the ratio of pickup to mike.
If you decide to go with an internal mike you couldn't connect it to an op24. You'd need to go to a separate output.
Ovation made a collectors series ('94 maybe?) which had a mini-mike mounted on the bridge outside the guitar, which is a good compromise between an internal and stand-mounted mike. I've ordered a custom-made Ovation which will have one of these mikes going direct to an XLR, plus an Op50 for the piezo. |
Tech? Add mini condenser to OP-24???
