Making a Custom Guitar Pedal (for my Fiddle)

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This video is about how I designed and made my own custom mute guitar pedal for my clip-on mic and piezo pickup on my violin (fiddle). The mic is an AT Pro35 phantom powered XLR condensor microphone, and the pickup is a Fishman V200 piezoelectric transducer. I got all of the parts from PartsExpress.
Thanks to my band (), Caleb, Pete, Paul and Troy, and to Hannah for filming.
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REFERENCES:
Gearslutz mute wiring for phantom powered vs dynamic/line-level microphones:
Beavis Audio Research:
Pickups on wikipedia:
Microphone mute pedal on “I like to make stuff”
Balanced vs unbalanced audio:
Balanced signals on wikipedia:
Phantom Power:
Phantom Power explained on Sweetwater:
Piezoelectricity:
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