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Permalink Reply by JUJU on May 2, 2011 at 8:08pm

Hi Tim

Yes mate to a certain degree you do get some reso sound from a Magnetic Pickup but the best method of amplifiying a reso is using a mic but this also has problems - because of the sound chamber and air pressure within the chamber this can cause a mic to feedback - there are mic systems available for resonators and Acoustic guitars but the ones that work best are very expensive Highlander Pickups

i have also experimented with Piezo discs in the resonator but with no great outcome - the best results i had was to sandwich a piezo disc in the Biscuit bridge but really you only get the sound of the strings not the Reso tone

below is a recording i made on the Mayorga Resonator i made you can hear a little of the reso tone this was using a Magnetic pickup - tunes Early Morning Blues  and Reso Blues

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Permalink Reply by Johnny Swank on May 2, 2011 at 11:05pm

I can't stand piezo pickups, so I admit my bias up front. That said, I've had good luck with magnetic pickups with resonators overall. I'll stick a mic in front if I really need to, but I'm usually moving around too much on stage to make that worthwhile.

 

Here's a cut off my EP with a magnetic pickup on a cheap Rogue resonator. It's played through a dirty Honeytone amp, but you get the idea.