A comparison of three quite different acoustic preamps - the TC Electronic Bodyrez, Fishman Aura Dreadnought, and L.R. Baggs Para Acoustic DI. Three different solutions to the problem of artificial-sounding signal from an acoustic guitar pickup.

You'll get lots of good info about this if you read the comments here, but just to clarify: each of these approaches the problem of 'making your acoustic guitar actually sound good plugged in' using totally different technology. I called them all 'preamps' because there is no easy word available that means 'acoustic-guitar-sound-good-boxes' but you could make the case that only the LR Baggs is a proper preamp, the Fishman may be some kind of impulse response or modeling technology, and I truly do not know what the BodyRez is doing; perhaps a harmonic exciter or complicated EQ. Anyway, they all help deal with that piezo quack that makes playing an acoustic live sound so much worse than playing it unplugged.

If you're curious, a "Four Years Later" update: the LR Baggs is the one I still use every week. So I guess time has proven it to be the winner.

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Unless I state otherwise in the video, everything I test out on here is stuff that I bought myself. There are no paid reviews on this channel and only a couple times have I ever had items sent to me for review. All opinions are my own!

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L.R. Baggs Para Acoustic DI: [ Ссылка ]
I don't think they make the Aura Dreadnought anymore but here is the current version of the Fishman Aura: [ Ссылка ]

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:20 Raw Acoustic Sound (Ibanez)
1:37 TC BodyRez 50%
1:53 TC BodyRez 100%
2:24 Fishman Aura 50%
2:38 Fishman Aura 100%
2:54 LR Baggs Para DI
3:36 Fishman Aura (Again)
4:23 TC BodyRez (Again)
5:01 Switching to an old Silvertone Guitar
5:13 Raw Acoustic Sound (Silvertone)
5:30 TC BodyRez + Silvertone
6:13 Fishman Aura + Silvertone
6:55 LR Baggs Para DI + Silvertone
7:15 Concluding Remarks

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