I soldered together the jack for my new Ithaca Strings bridge pickup tonight… started playing violin and 3 hours of heaven later have dropped from exhaustion. Here’s what it looks like:
And here’s the handy jack and attachment mechanism I came up with:
It has a slightly “electric violiny” sound, still very pleasing, and particularly satisfying for my pizzicato and strumming parts, and blends nicely with an additional lavaliere microphone I mount behind my bridge.
Since I’m using Abelton Live as I lay down many tracks (I’ll describe all this later), each track can be set to pull in either the microphone or the pickup, and I’m building a nice orchestration by mixing the different tone quality on different tracks.
It was hard to stop playing, but the back and arms would do no more tonight….
