Constructing a pickup from a greeting card – step 1
Constructing a pickup from a greeting card – step 1

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You know those greeting cards that you open, and some ultra geeky computer bleep song comes up? Now you can just throw them away after the batteries gone dead, but… you can also convert them into an acoustic guitar pickup!
How? Very simple!
First, you remove the card from around the sound system. This consists of a piece of circuit board, with some batteries and stuff; and a little flat metal speaker.
Director’s view during the concert

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Hey mate, what’s the 2nd Edirol mixer for (the one on the right)?
Oops, should’ve written this a long time ago
The mixer to the left (with Sara’s hand on) is for normal camera mixing. That signal is fed into the presentation mixer to the right together with DVD, powerpoint and keyed lyrics. This setup lets the producer focus on mixing only the cameras. DVD-playback and keying is handled by the presentation producer (in this case me). Hope that’s clear enough