[joeybcdt]

You were right. Why didn't I think of that? Never mind.

Joey

This post has been edited by joeybcdt: 21 November 2003 - 11:13 PM

[wavewalker]

Ah, those clever Texans. I've never seen your idea anywhere. Though I don't think posting it on the Internet was too bright. Wright it down a couple of times, then mail them to yourself. That is called a poor mans patent. Wouldn’t you be pissed off if someone stole your idea?

This post has been edited by wavewalker: 21 November 2003 - 10:37 PM

[theagent]

now i wanna know his idea.
i'm always interested in finding better ways to mic/pickup an acoustic.

[dadfad]

I'm curious too, but I've tried internal-mic's; external-mic's clipped to the soundhole, a combo of both, sound-hole pop-ins of many brands, several under-saddle piezos, personally hand-made under-top piezos, stick-ons, stick-ins, magnetics, crystals, transducers, ribbons (once I put four different mic-types inside and outside my National-steel with a blender)......different degrees of success (and failure ). Double boom-stand mics (sound-hole and bridge) is THE standard to aim for. If you have something that'll sound like that, the world will beat a path to your door. (The world of acoustic purity anyway!). Good luck!


(A good electric harmonica wouldn't hurt either)





(Yeah, tried that too..... )


The "poor man's patent" Wave mentioned above is good supporting evidence, but not always sufficient in and of itself. It needs to be dated with no possibility of date-tampering (like sending yourself an empty envelope and then later putting your idea in it and sealing it, etc.) Patents are expensive to get. Another way to date it with authority is this: Like I said, patents are hard and expensive to get. However, copywriting is not. Of course copywriting is for recorded or written material, so what do you do? You describe your invention/idea/whatever in great detail and very graphically on tape as you record yourself. You get a form from the Library of Congress:

CODE

The Library of Congress
      Copyright Office
      101 Independence Avenue, S.E.
      Washington, D. C. 20559-6000

L of C Link

.....then you submit your new original recording (like titled as "Ode To My New Invention...The Super-Duper Ultimate Mic" or whatever)....(this used to cost $25, might be a little more now. It USED to be free!). Anyway, NOW you have it dated with authority. This HAS held up in court several times (although grudgingly by the presiding judge). Added to your "poor man's patent" and any other documentation (like a video of you describing and showing it while the TV is on in the background behind you with the evening news for December 11, 2003, with your two year-old walking around, etc). Again, that video is purely supplemental evidence (could be a pre-recorded video of the news possibly, hard to pre-record a two year-old though ), but it supports your other evidence. When taken together with the government-documented copyright date, you have a preponderence of evidence to support your claim. Anyway, good luck! (Hope it works. I'll buy one!)

[theagent]

i'd like a pickup that'll let me pan the lowE lowA strings... obviously it'd probably have 2 chords...and you'd need either a pa or 2 amps...but man that would sound good...they already have those guitar synths that have that ability...but 1) it's out of my price range...and 2) it's out of my price range.
if you could come up with that--then your set.
i could probably build a really ugly version of that. (come to think of it-thats my next project)

[lowden]

There was a stereo acoustic pickup system in some late 80's Takemimes that had a preset pan feature. E (lft) A (rgt) D (lft) G (rgt) B (lft) E (rgt) or E, A, D, (lft) and G,B, E(rgt) both options switchable.

Sounded Sh*te, especially in large arenas, where the people on the left hand side got half a guitar and those on the right got the other half.

I believe it was discontinued very quickly, sounds like a japanesse idea from some nerd who never played the instrument.

I do a bit of work with and Irish band and when we play large arenas or stadiums we mix the sound in mono so that everyone in the audience hears the same thing. Nothing worse than standing near the right hand speaker stack and hearing hi-hat all night

This post has been edited by lowden: 22 November 2003 - 06:52 PM

[theagent]

live-yeah your right., that'd probably be a disaster...but i've heard the roland vg-88's demo cd...it had this feature...and sounded amazing.

This post has been edited by theagent: 23 November 2003 - 03:00 AM