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| | My banjo actually has "S. S. Stewart" on the headstock, but a Maybell is what it is. During the 1920s and 1930s SLingerland sold these little wonders to a large number of distributors who often put their own labels on them. Apparently one of the distributors figured it would be a good idea to resurrect the famous Stewart banjo brand name. Like most Maybell shortscales mine used to be an openback, but during the 1950s or 1960s somebody added a Waverly aluminium resonator giving it some extra power and a really nice raw edge to its tone.
It has an archtop tonering that's almost certainly original. That's more than a little odd, since I've never heard of another archtop banjo of this particular model. Then again Slingerland did make a huge number of different variants.
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Forget it! The Sound Checker is way too heavy and seriously affects the acoustic tone of the instrument.
If one Sound Checker is too much, just imagine what two of them will do!
Not too bad, but I had expected more. K&K does have a special banjo version of the Twin Spot. That may be the answer, but I doubt it. Seems the real problem is that two sensors is one too many.
It's not that bad actually. I think I might be able to use this for rhythm work. Not ideal though, and besides I use this banjo mainly for soloing.
This is getting better. No matter what you think of ACCU_STIC on its own, it's a very good way to improve any piezo transducer. Btw, I placed the ACCU_STIC on top of the dowel stick so close to the head it's almost souching it and with the microphone pointed dierctly at the bridge. Maybe that was a bit over the top?