This will allow you to bring down any hot zones in the response and give you a bit of feedback control.Īvoid long cables, the cable will behave like a cap and do odd things to your tone.ĭo not use a solid state guitar amp, it will make the mics sound really harsh. Get a EQ pedal ,Danelectro sells a decent 7 channel model that is about $50. Here are a couple of tips for getting a decent performance out of them. I have restored a bunch of these at my shop. These are pics of my 960 and a schematic of the electrical configuration if you would want to build it. Any amount of treble/bass blend is available right on the accordion. Once adjusted, I leave the Bose L1 and TS4 gain settings alone as there is plenty of treble/bass gain adjust with the 500K pots. After primary gain adjustments with the Bose L1 and TS4, there are two 500K potentiometers for fine tuning/trimming of the bass and treble. This would involve wires passing through the bellows and that would require tape or secured in some other fashion. I like this installation of the bass mic since it is not installed on the left, bass side, of the accordion. Piezos are not expensive, do not require external power, do not take up much space and all the mics are installed on the treble half of the accordion, Three mics are installed under the GRILL for treble (good placement for all 41 keys) and one mic is mounted on the REED BLOCKS for bass response.
#PIEZO MIKE INSTALL#
It would be simple to install on anyones accordion. This is a description of the mic configuration of my Excelsior. I also liked the touch of reverb I added from the TS4. The sound was much richer, less tinny and had a real presence to it. with the Excelsior output going directly to the line level input on the Bose L1, but when going first to the TS4 and then to the L1, the difference in sound quality was incredible. However, I am very pleased with the sound quality of these piezo microphones (crisp, clear, no distortion) especially when used with the Bose L1 Compact and the TS4 Tonematch with built in selection for accordion preset (thanks to Paul). I do not have any experience with other condenser, dynamic microphones, or other mics for comparison. However, I thought I would share my experience with the original internal piezo microphones that are in my Excelsior 960 accordion.
By no means am I an expert on this and piezo microphones do not seem to be desired by many folks. There has been much discussion about micing an accordion-types of mics, placement of mics, external, internal, etc. If not, someone please reply as to what kind they are. First, I hope these are piezoelectric microphones (photos below).
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