{"id":1414,"date":"2013-07-05T01:43:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T01:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicalsaw.com\/micing-your-musical-saw\/"},"modified":"2013-07-05T01:43:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T01:43:13","slug":"micing-your-musical-saw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicalsaw.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/05\/micing-your-musical-saw\/","title":{"rendered":"Micing your Musical Saw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a very interesting article on various attempts to <a href=\"http:\/\/hooksandladders.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/02\/diy-music-more-musical-sawbservations-two-shows-two-saw-sounds-one-night\/\" target=\"_blank\">amplify<\/a> a saw: http:\/\/hooksandladders.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/02\/diy-music-more-musical-sawbservations-two-shows-two-saw-sounds-one-night\/<br \/>\nI agree with her re. contact pickups &#8211; it totally ends up deadening the music.  Playing into a mic on a stand is nerve wracking &#8211; You always have to be aware not to smack the mic as you bend the saw.  A much more satisfying experience is to attach the mic to your cheat.  See this example of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicalsaw.com\/catalog\/order2.php?Product=11\" target=\"_blank\">Musical Saw Microphone holder<\/a>. Or a low budget option is to just use tape and tape the mic to your handle.<br \/>\nOne more choice is to use a shotgun mic on the floor aimed towards the business part of your saw.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, remember to dial the treble down all the way to eliminate any bow noise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a very interesting article on various attempts to amplify a saw: http:\/\/hooksandladders.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/02\/diy-music-more-musical-sawbservations-two-shows-two-saw-sounds-one-night\/ I agree with her re. contact pickups &#8211; it totally ends up deadening the music. Playing into a mic on a stand is nerve wracking &#8211; You always have to be aware not to smack the mic as you bend the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/musicalsaw.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/05\/micing-your-musical-saw\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Micing your Musical Saw&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalsaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalsaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalsaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalsaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalsaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicalsaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalsaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalsaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalsaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}