Harley Benton TrueTone SH-30W Pro Active

Since i had already a sh30pro i knew how good it sounds.
This time i installed it on a solid spruce top solid mahogany back side acoustic. First i tried on the Roland street cube EX which was nice. i had to play against as part of a whole band.
At home i tried the guitar directly into a Hi-Z input of the Zoom Livetrak 12. The sound thru the studio monitors was great but...
then i activate my active Alto speaker set + plus the 600W sub and the sound is controlled by a DBX Go Rack (discontinued) where i activated the eq comp and subharmonics.
Wow... this was gorgeous, the mic combination gave a lot of clarity in the higher frequencies and the pickup helped the Dbx to generate those subharmonics.
I defently want to try it out in a crowdy pub where i have to increase the volume and the eq of the DBX will have to be changed. I hope i will find the same balance between the sub and the tops back at higher volume levels without having to struggle with to much acoustic feedback .
That is for the coming months. i will let you know the result by then.
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Sounds incredibly good for what it is - basically makes DI guitar viable even for demo recordings with the right compressors and EQ. Genuinely astounding, not just for the price, it vastly outcompetes any Martin/Taylor built in system.

I wish you could turn down the magnetic pickup, however, not just the mic. With the mic on full volume you get a great sound, but for quiet no-feedback environments I'd like to have the balance even more in favor of the mic.

Currently I believe the system has two controls: Overall volume and Mic Volume. Overall volume and a Blend control would be better in my opinion to get rid of the magetic pickup entirely.

Ich war auf der Suche nach einer praktikablen Möglichkeit, den Klang von verschiedenen Stahlsaitengitarren schnell und ohne Umbauarbeiten zu verstärken.
Genau das schafft der True Tone besser als alles, was ich bisher getestet habe, vor allem für den Preis!
Besonders die Ergänzung mit dem verbauten Minimikrofon erzeugt ein sehr "akustisches" Klangbild. Es ersetzt natürlich nicht eine aufwendige Mikrofonierung, bringt aber genau das Klangverhalten, was leider auch bei vielen, oft wesentlich teureren Systemen fehlt
Sehr praxisorientiert ist auch die Ausgangsbuchse am ledernen Halter.
Zuletzt sei noch die Optik gelobt, ein schlichtes Holzgehäuse/Walnuss, was wunderbar zu ebensolchen verbauten Griffbrettern, aber auch Rosewood passt, sehr edel. Ein gelungenes Produkt!