Finally, tried the Mama Bear

[Evan Skopp]

Re: Finally, tried the Mama Bear

Lew was talking about the USA list price, which is, in fact, $499.

[Surgeon]

Re: Finally, tried the Mama Bear

Lew was talking about the USA list price, which is, in fact, $499.

Oh ok, so I'm not completely crazy

[jdm61]

Re: Finally, tried the Mama Bear

Evan. I have a D28V with no pickup. What would i need? would just a piezo with the strap button jack setup do the trick? I plan to close mike for home recording but that will be rather difficult for gigging so the Mama Bear soinds like a good option, but i don't want to cut up the guitar and i HATE those built in preamps......no big sqaure holes in my acoustic, thankyouverymuch .

[Evan Skopp]

Re: Finally, tried the Mama Bear

Yup. Just a plain ol' under-saddle transducer is all you need. No hogging out big chunks of wood. Check out the D-TAR Wave-Length, which runs on 18 volts.

Couple that with Mama Bear and you're set. (You might even end up ditching the close mic idea when you hear how good this setup sounds).

[B2D]

Re: Finally, tried the Mama Bear

Man if I had one of those with a Taylor T5....

[Evan Skopp]

Re: Finally, tried the Mama Bear

Just wait 'till you see the videos.

[jdm61]

Re: Finally, tried the Mama Bear

Evan....where does the battery pack/preamp for that pickup go?

[Evan Skopp]

Re: Finally, tried the Mama Bear

You can velcro it to the inside of your neck block or -- what I do -- is fix it to the inside of the back of the guitar just opposite the treble side of the soundhole.

[jdm61]

Re: Finally, tried the Mama Bear

is there any way to have it outboard of the guitar?

[Evan Skopp]

Re: Finally, tried the Mama Bear

Mama Bear is an outboard, er- offboard device. Do you mean onboard? If so, no, you can't. The reason has to do with the power requirements. Mama looks like a friendly Bear, but open the hood and you'll see a screamin' fast 32 bit computer under there.

The power supply alone took six months to develop. It splits the power into something like five voltages for different parts of the circuit.

I guess it could be done as an onboard device with phantom power or by adding a battery the size of the one that powers your notebook computer. But rather than go down that path, at least at this time, we're opting for making it an AC-powered, offboard device.

Thanks for the question. And stay tuned for the videos. They'll be on the D-TAR site next week, as soon as our webmaster returns from vacation.

[jdm61]

Re: Finally, tried the Mama Bear

Evan, I was actually talking about the pickup's power pack. Call me weird, but I am trying to avoid putting anything largere than the piezo thread or the jack inside the guitar.