BARTLETT AUDIO Guitar Mic User Guide
- June 3, 2024
- Bartlett Audio
Table of Contents
GUITAR MIC QUICK START GUIDE
Guitar Mic
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The mic is attached to a Soundhole Clip. A piece of felt inside the clip prevents damage to the guitar’s finish. The cable is trapped in the clip to act as a strain relief. Slide the Soundhole Clip onto the top or bottom of the sound hole as shown below, whatever sounds best. The mic should be inside the sound hole.
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With phantom power turned off, plug the mic’s XLR connector into an XLR mic input on your amp or mixer. That input should supply phantom power. If your amp or mixer lacks phantom power, plug the mic into a phantom power supply. Then connect the phantom supply output to a mixer mic input or amp mic input.
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Turn on phantom power before use.
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Depending on your model of guitar, you might want to turn the mixer’s or amp’s treble up or down slightly, turn the bass up or
down slightly, or just leave it alone. If you hear a boomy or wobbly sound, turn down the bass a little and place your amp away from the floor and walls.
Complete specifications are at www.bartlettaudio.com. For free tech support, email [email protected].
HOW TO REDUCE FEEDBACK
- When playing through an amp, place the amp slightly behind you and to the left so your body blocks the feedback. Or place the amp in front of you, close to the audience, so they hear a louder sound
- Try to play a little louder and turn down your amp to compensate.
- If you have a pickup, send its signal only to the monitor speakers, and send the mic signal only to the house speakers. Here’s how: In your mixer’s pickup channel, turn up the monitor send and turn down the fader. In your mixer’s mic channel, turn down the monitor send and turn up the fader. The audience will hear the natural acoustic sound of your mic, and you will hear the pickup in your floor monitors.
- Use in-ear monitors instead of floor monitor speakers, just with your own mic. This headphone amp can be used to monitor your own instrument: Behringer MA400.
- Using a preamp with a sweepable notch filter, notch out frequencies that feed back. The Headway EDB-2 and Grace Design Felix preamps have a feedback notch filter.