The irony is, those cheapo clip on mics are literally the same as the piezos I'm using here. I never have liked the clip on microphones or clip on/slip on pickups (At worst you might get a little residue, but that'd take years of being stuck on there, and it's easy to clean.) It sticks basically forever and comes off clean without a mark. You've seen it before, you know what it is.ĭon't get a knock-off, get the genuine branded thing and never use anything else.
#Viola tuner by microphone pro#
In case you're worried about leaving a mark when sticking the piezo on, here's a pro tip: use Faber-Castell™ genuine Tack-It putty. (In fact I'm pretty sure that the vibration is in completely the wrong plane on the bridge, if I were to just slap mine on there.ĭon't really feel like mounting anything to the belly of my viola On the bridge, I don't know exactly what axis the vibration is, so any vibration that isn't in the same plane as the piezo is wasted. On the belly where I've placed it, I know for sure that the wood can only flex up/down, in the same plane of the piezo.
You have to consider the direction of vibration, too. Even with guitar pickups they add a bunch of tuning and circuitry to make it sound good, but if they plugged the bridge pickup directly to a mixer it'd be shit. Viola tuning 101 Viola, as any other wood instrument, needs to be re-tuned from time to time. Click on the note names on the left side or the piano keyboard to play sound of the notes. You can also tune by ear, using this page as a virtual tuning fork. My mic/preamp on the other hand, if you're able to find a solid resonant sweet spot, as far as I can tell it sounds very close to the acoustic sound of the instrument - and that should be the goal, really. On this page your can tune a viola using the microphone of your device. You have to buy their preamps in order to get a good sound out of it, and even with a preamp I daresay it doesn't get the 'body' of the sound because it's attached to the bridge rather than the body. And by itself, it sounds like a cheapo dollar store contact mic. My friend has a Fishman V200 that cost him around $200ish and it's nothing but a bent piece of piezo that you stick into the 'fold' of the bridge.
Recent d/loads 3. by Precision Musical Tuner and Tools LLC This app is currently not active on Google Play.
#Viola tuner by microphone android#
I feel that bridge-mounted pickups in general pick up a great deal of 'string' sound but not much of the 'body' of the instrument. Tune your viola by ear, or by using the microphone on your Android device. Personal preference here, you may find differently: I wonder how it would do mounted on/in the bridge like the $100+ LR Baggs
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