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Originally Posted by Stitch  I can't really understand some of what you're asking, but I'll tell you now that the Variax (electric) uses L.R.Baggs saddles that are fed into a computer. I'm positive it tweaks those sounds using EQ, compressors, band pass filters etc. rather than MIDI triggered sounds, because pick scrapes, pinch harmonics etc. work fine.
If you can cope with the wiring it MIGHT be possible to use Graphtech GHOST saddles. These act as piezo saddles but can also be used as MIDI saddles AT THE SAME TIME using Graphtech's modual GHOST preamp system.  |
Interesting. And yes, what I typed was pretty unorganized, a stream of conciousness with a little bit of concieved grammar and punctuation.
So Ghost is what I want, basically. I was going to buy an acoustic variax, rip out the electronics and rewire it into an electric (still haven't figured out how that will be done) and then I'll want to rewire the system to Ghost Saddles, so that I can run midi as well.
The alternative is I use a midi pickup; thats what Al Di Meola is using here. (
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Is there really any difference in sound quality between saddles? Any difference at all? And whats the advantages and disadvantages of pup vs. saddle midi?