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by Gary E. Andrews - 04/15/24 07:08 PM
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This post isn't to talk about how awesome Martin guitars are. I have a short story to tell... and I can't believe I'm admitting this, but what the heck, we all do stupid things right? I have a Martin acoustic and it has a Fishman pickup. It's nice. I never read the manual though... thought I was too smart. I put the Stereo/Mono setting to Stereo and put the EQ sliders here and there, where I thought it sounded good. I then played multiple open mic shows and other shows with this guitar and the settings like they were. Fast forward a few years later. Yesterday, I break the Martin out to record a new song. I decide, I'm gonna read the manual on Martin's website for the pickup. It tells me that the Stereo/Mono setting should be left on MONO (DOH ) unless you're using a special stereo patch cable (which I never did) and it also showed me how to position the EQ sliders to get different sounds, like bright, or mid-level... Long story short, if I would of read the manual 6 or 7 years ago, I would of known all this great info and I wouldn't of played SEVERAL shows with the pickup set to Stereo, when it should of been set to Mono... Now, I know guitar outputs are mono... I've always known that. Normal guitar cables are mono too... I've always known that... so why did I switch this to Stereo? Well, first, to my defense... you have to lift up the pickup out of the guitar in order to see this switch. So, I'm thinking when I FIRST got the guitar I switched it to Stereo, then just forgot about that switch. Also, I think I originally set it to Stereo because I thought... "hmmm, this must be some kind of cool Martin feature that automatically turns the signal into Stereo! It doesn't. You need the special cable. OK, I'm done humiliating myself.
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Stereo, in case anyone is interested, gives direction to the audio. At first when stereo records came out they would play different instruments that you could plainly hear coming from the left or right. However this got old real quick and later on the sound was more of a blend without clearly knowing where the sound was coming from. In fact stereo isn't any improvement over mono when you get right down to it. At one time they even expermented with quad sound but it never took off. And now there you have it! I am waiting for the slings and arrows!
Ray E. Strode
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Quad sound? Would that be like surround sound?
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I think the Who had a record back in the vinyl days named quadrephenia which was supposed to be a quad sound record.
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Quad sound? Would that be like surround sound? Yes, it would be pretty close. The Quad-sound predated surround sound. Quad sound systems had just come out at the time that Quadraphenia was recorded and it may have been the first one done specifically to take advantage of the technology. However, it did not catch on and most of the quad systems sat on store shelves and soon died away. Years later they repackaged the idea as surround sound and added the sub-sonic bass channel, then called it surround sound. As far as using the stereo channels to create some distance between instruments and sending sounds through only one channel or lightly through one and stronger through the other, I miss that. Ray says people got tired of it, but I think they got lazy. To me some of the best recordings ever made were done with distinct separation that made the record come alive, especially on a high quality sound system. The biggest problem with Quad sound is that there were so many good stereo records back then that did separation through two channels, that quad sound really did not add much to what they could do. Once recording engineers started flattening the sound out (more mono-like), and some years had past where people could forget the failure of quad systems to take off, surround sound comes along and takes off. There are two major differences though. One, by adding the subsonic channel you could get a thundering physical aspect to the sound, and two, home movies and home movie systems with the advent of DVDs really made the surround sound useful for immersing the listener into the scene of the movie.
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Some guitar pickups are stereo. I have a K & K pickup installed in my Martin D35 which has a piezo pickup under the bridge and a small condenser mic in the sound hole. A stereo patch cord goes from the guitar to a small preamp which I wear on my belt. I can mix the mic and pickup with the preamp and send the output to the amp with a mono patch cord, or send each output separately to the amp and mix them there. It works very well and I've had many compliments on the sound.
There are so many good songs. I want to sing them all.
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