NVTONE microphone

paulmcevoy75 · November 4

Anyone have any experience with these? I just know Antoine Boyer seems to use this on some or all of his guitars.

I was wondering about keeping that onboard and then being able to stick my humbucker insert in when needed.

https://nvtone.com/

voutoreenie · November 4

No experience but dang, that looks slick...would love to try one

flaco · November 4

I’m very intrigued! I’d like to see if someone with a petit bouche could make it work.

BillDaCostaWilliams · November 5

Sounds great on those Antoine Boyer clips.

Ronald · November 5

I have one installed internally on a Gaffiero petite bouche. It sounds quite nice with a preamp (it needs phantom power and some tone shaping, depending on the guitar). For gigs, I’ll still use a Krivo and blend the inputs, as the mic can have the expected feedback issues in noisy rooms.

Buco · November 5

It sounds good. So this is a microphone? What looks like the mag pickup is actually a premap (I don't know if it's a preamp but Fabian Holland in his video says it contains electronics) and a mounting bracket?

I learned this from one of the demo videos, Fabian Holland. Lately people have asked about different styles of pickups and all these websites do a poor job on a site design. Just totally confusing and hard to understand what the product actually is.

I've seen this system before but I thought this would never work in a Selmer style guitar because I thought the pickup looking thing is in in fact doing the job of the pickup together with the mic. Because I couldn't find any explanation what the pickup looking thing really is. Not confusing at all.

But then last night I got to the "how it works " portion of the site where is says that you can also just stick it inside the guitar (vs mounting it on the soundhole) , to the back wood, right below the soundhole.

So then it would work with a Selmer style guitar.

But then how is this different than any other condenser mic?

paulmcevoy75 · November 5

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/123517#Comment_123517

not sure if you were trying to be funny but this made me laugh.

It's probably the pickup ;)

Ronald · November 5

Yes is a quality mic that you can mount permanently inside the guitar or using their bracket on the sound hole. But there are not batteries or any electronics/volume control, so you will need at least a Phantom power adapter and some way to tame/manage tone and volume - preamp or small mixer

Buco · November 5

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/123523#Comment_123523

What's inside is essentially a preamp but you need a phantom power to power it up. This morning when I typed that up, I didn't think that's it's a condenser mic and has to have a board placed somewhere. So they stuck it inside the pickup looking thingy. Nice and elegant solution but they could do a better job being clear and explaining that.