The Award-winning Anthem series, featuring our patented TRU•MIC technology, seamlessly combines a proprietary condenser microphone with our acclaimed Element pickup to deliver the warmth and fidelity of a studio-mic’d guitar anywhere you perform.
At the heart of the Anthem is a revolutionary microphone engineered to capture a dynamic studio-mic’d sound for any live performance. The TRU•MIC mounts to the underside of the bridge plate and hovers just 3 mm above its surface to take advantage of the PZM or “boundary” effect. This proprietary mounting system, combined with noise cancellation, frees the mic to perform as if it were outside of the guitar in a studio and maintain remarkable feedback suppression for the stage. The result is a balanced frequency response with excellent clarity for the purest sound you have ever heard amplified. We have paired the Element pickup with the TRU•MIC to provide solidity and punch for low frequencies.
The Anthem has all of the essential tools in one complete system. The feather-weight preamp and controls include: volume, mix, phase and a battery check. The mix control blends from the augmented TRU•MIC position to Element pickup only.
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For those of you who prefer a minimalist approach to controls, the Anthem SL delivers the same groundbreaking studio mic’d fidelity as the Anthem in a streamlined format with a single volume control. The endpin preamp has all-discrete circuitry for the purest signal and the TRU•MIC is premixed with the Element for optimum performance.
This side-mounted option provides easy battery access and a built-in tuner that is hidden beneath the control panel to maintain a clean, classy look. The mix control blends from the augmented TRU•MIC position to Element pickup only. Bass & treble controls, phase inversion and a notch filter offer tone shaping along with maximum feedback suppression. The Stagepro Anthem comes complete with the TRU•MIC and Element pickup.
“The LR Baggs Anthem is a firm favorite with the pros and for good reason. Using under-saddle piezo and LR Baggs’ True-Mic technology, the Anthem captures all the dynamic range of your instrument and your playing, delivering studio-quality tone. If you’ve got a special acoustic, you need a pickup that’ll let it sing when amplified. This will do the trick.”Read more»
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“Fingerpicking the Anthem through the larger systems produced a warm, natural tone with just the right amount of presence, while strumming hard created a shimmering sound with no sign of breaking up and plenty of low end…I achieved a volume level far louder than I’d need with no hint of feedback through both the studio monitors and the PA system.”Read more»
“…it was easy to get refined, open, and airy sounds that were faithful to the J45’s acoustic voice…If you want more realism and dimension in your amplified acoustic sound but don’t want to be burdened by a complex external interface, the Anthem is worth investigating.”
“In a word, the Anthem sounds outstanding...The signal remained free of feedback, distortion, or any other harmonic unpleasantness with even the loudest amp settings.”Read more »Acoustic guitar pickups have the all-but-impossible task of replicating the unplugged sound of the guitar itself. To do this, they need to sound as neutral as possible while not producing feedback during live performances. For years, many acoustic guitarists have avoided electronics all together due to the problems of unnatural sound, feedback, and other issues related to plugging in. But recent advancements in pickup technology have made the sound of a plugged-in acoustic guitar downright desirable.
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In addition to better pickups, microphones specifically designed for acoustic guitars have started to show up more and more in the past few years. It used to be that for live performance, there often wasn’t much choice aside from the ubiquitous Shure SM57 to mic up an acoustic guitar—much to the chagrin of nylon-string and other electronics-free guitarists. But there are now a variety of clip-on mic solutions and stand-held mics that can highlight your guitar’s full sonic spectrum and dynamics without having to install a pickup.
This roundup of acoustic guitar pickups and microphones includes three pickups and two microphones that are specifically tailored to the needs of acoustic guitar players. Click the links in the descriptions to read a full review of each pickup or mic in this roundup.
Curtis Novak’s Magnetic Soundhole pickups deliver a wide range of vintage-style tones for acoustic guitars. These pickups are available in three models—the single-coil G-coil and D-coil, as well as a humbucker—with a variety of mounting options for either temporary or permanent use. The D-coil offers a warm, compressed tone that can easily push an amp into tasty overdrive, with controllable feedback at a low volume perfect for bluesy riffs. The G-coil emits a similar sound, retaining some electric warmth but with a more subtle and dimensional tone that feels more obviously acoustic.
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Fishman’s PowerTap series of pickups, which includes the PowerTap Rare Earth and PowerTap Infinity pickups, pairs either a soundhole or undersaddle pickup to its new TAP (which stands for Touch, Ambience, and Percussion) body sensors. The sensors are designed to capture percussive elements, body resonances, and performance dynamics that pickups alone tend to miss. The TAP—mounted on the top under the bridge—complements the pickups, and there is a blend knob to adjust between the two to your liking. Both versions come with battery-powered active onboard electronics and offer either mono or stereo output, the latter of which allows you to send separate channels for TAP sensor and pickup independently. The PowerTap Rare Earth is a soundhole version with a neodymium humbucker, designed to fit soundholes as small as 3-5/8 inches in diameter. It has a very fast response so it’s a good match for fast flatpicking and aggressive fingerstyle snaps and pops, while its warmth works well for mellower fingerpicking and quiet strumming. The PowerTap Infinity uses an undersaddle pickup that’s a bit more elaborate. It’s available in three different sizes to accommodate various guitar dimensions, and offers volume and tone dials in addition to the blend control. The TAP sensors added depth to this pickup to create a more 3D sound. They seem to enhance the tone on the top and on the bottom of the frequency spectrum as well, adding both air and body to balance against that undersaddle midrange.
Imagine, if you will, a soundhole pickup with the sound of a condenser microphone and the high feedback resistance of a magnetic pickup. That’s the idea behind Mojotone’s Quiet Coil NC-1 Acoustic Guitar Pickup. It’s a handmade active single-coil pickupthat incorporates noise-reduction technology with an extended frequency response for a more natural, less electric tone. The tone is unique, with a sense of ambience, prominent higher frequencies, and less electric-guitar color than expected. Powered by a pair of common CR2032 batteries, it’s predicted to last for 500 hours of playing time before needing new batteries. It includes a battery test button as well as a small volume control on the body of the pickup. Installation is easy—you won’t even need to loosen the strings on your guitar.
The nuance and detail of expressive acoustic guitar playing, combined with the wide range of overtones that a well-constructed instrument can offer, seem more suited to the sonic capabilities of a condenser microphone than a dynamic mic. But the Beyerdynamic TG i51 Dynamic Microphone offers a fast transient response that lets the detail come through both on big, strummed chords and single-note runs. Being a dynamic mic, it doesn’t need phantom power, and it’s also better suited than condensers for live applications due to its strong feedback rejection. The cardioid pickup pattern means it does have a proximity effect that boosts the bass at close range, but at about 3 feet away the bass boost dissipates. This mic also works well on percussion and guitar amps, making it a versatile workhorse for live and studio applications.
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For guitarists who prefer a microphone to plugging in via electronics for live gigs, you’d better have a mic stand (and clip!) and be prepared to remain stationary while playing. Not so fast, says the DPA 4099 CORE Instrument Microphone. This clip-on, small-diaphragm supercardioid condenser mic goes where you go, providing consistent levels and quality all the while. The adjustable clamp and gooseneck design allow for easy, quick adjustments on the fly, with no tools required. Once you find the sweet spot for a particular guitar, this microphone offers an elegant, high-fidelity alternative to pickups or stand-mounted stage mics. It’s designed for a variety of stringed strummed instruments, including guitar, ukulele, mandolin and dobro, and is especially useful for instruments that do not, or cannot, have electronics installed.
Nick Grizzle is a music journalist and editor, sound engineer, drummer, and music lover whose vinyl collection continuously overflows its confines. He holds the position of Digital Content Manager for Acoustic Guitar.There are countless ways to project the sound of an acoustic guitar. Piezo and contact style pickups recreate resonance through the wood’s vibration, while magnetic pickups capture movement from the strings. Microphone-based systems do all of this and more.
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