Electric Violins - Will it Work or Is it Wack? 

I mean, I've done weirder things when stuck in traffic!

You crack me!!!!!! Love it

Fun will be drive with the violin, like playing darksouls with a guitar of guitar heroes

Wow, Thank you. I will forever remember this comment as I answer the haters on my left handed violin video.

@@Fiddlershop Amplified videos goes something like this...try it and find out, but technically it should/shouldn't work.

Wow, congratulations!! Any time. Happy playing!! And Happy New Year to you!

Happy to help!

Definitely a good idea!

Glad it was helpful! 😃

Thanks, Jason!!

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you!

Thanks for the nice feedback, Murray! We really appreciate it!!

Oh, interesting! Yeah, I had something sort of similar-I think it had something to do with the adapter I was using. If I plugged my headphones in all the way, I only got the left side, but if I pulled it out a bit, I got it in stereo. It's weird stuff.

You bet!

Thanks for the info!

Closer, but I just want to add the signal isn't exactly degraded if the impedance isn't match between amplifier and pick up, it's just a weaker, and the more gain (volume increase) for an individual amplifier stage the more distortion and noise you will have inherently not necessarily a good thing but also not necessarily a bad thing because that's basically what an overdrive pedal does. This effect varies with the quality and type of components as well as the amplifier design. But inherently, if your impedance isn't matched you're going to need more gain to get the same amount of volume, and the whole system will be less efficient (in practical terms it means that you're going to get less total power output). For example, your car amplifier circuit was probably set up for 16 or 32 ohms with one amplifier stage for amplification and another op amp just to invert the signal back. However, the home stereo probably had much more stages of amplification 9 or more depending on the quality because it's designed to take a faint signal and amplify it over and over and over again to have as little distortion as possible so you can have the dynamic range to have faint conversations in one scene and loud explosions in the next scene.

If you want as good a sound as possible with acoustic instrument pickup, you want a very high impedance (much higher than 10Kohm like 1-10M-ohm). As previous commenter mentioned, no, you do not need to match impedance. Most demos Fiddlershop shows use Schertler Amps which have about 1Mohm input impedance. Two things happen if the impedance presented to the pickup is "low". Yes, the amplitude is decreased. However much more concerning is that there is a loss of fidelity - there is a frequency filtering effect (high pass filtering because piezo's actually look like a capacitor rather than a voltage source) - and especially with treble instruments this can sound really poor. If the pickup surface area itself is relatively large (like K&K guitar vs. Fishman & Baggs undersaddle for guitar) then this effect is minimized. I cannot generally answer for these two electric violins pickup impedance/size - it could be they have a much bigger surface area than add-on piezos. I use a 10Mohm pre-amp to a Fishman V-200 in my main performance violin (it would probably be similar to a LR Baggs or Barcus Berry) or connect directly to an acoustic amp with high input impedance. An additional challenge with piezo pickups is that because cables themselves are capacitive, long cables can increase the adverse effect of both the loss and the tone impairment. Since I perform in a variety of settings mostly with hall/house sound systems, I use a pre-amp which allows good tone and consistency. (my sonic goal is almost always to sound like a natural, acoustic violin). In short, if you are going to take the trouble to amplify, you might note either of the impedance of the amp you use or consider getting a high impedance acoustic pre-amp.

Thank you! Cheers!

Because Gibbles is so amazing ❤️ Thanks for watching!

oh yeah, every pedal for guitar can be used for violin too. So rock on!

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The violin doesn't need to be plugged in to tune, you can tune it just acoustically (you'll still be able to hear it-it's about the same volume as using a metal practice mute on an acoustic violin)

@@Fiddlershop thanks a lot, great!

Thanks for watching! There is no specific amp to use. A decent guitar amp like a Fender would work fine with an electric violin. 1/4 cables are usually safe.

Thanks Bill!

model or brand

Hi! The first instrument is a Yamaha 4-string Electric Violin YEV-104: fiddlershop.com/products/yamaha-4-string-electric-violin-yev-104 The blue instrument is our Tower Strings Electric Violin. We only sell it in black at the moment: fiddlershop.com/products/yamaha-4-string-electric-violin-yev-104

@@Fiddlershop the blue!?

Thanks a lot. I think you have copied the two same links, that model is blue?

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@@Fiddlershop Awesome, I lived in Austin TX and there is a Memorial bronze sculpture of Stevie Ray Vaughan by Ralph Helmick at Auditorium Shores in Town Lake Metropolitan Park.

foot powered or....[wait for it]......electric?

Hmmm, imagine that you're married with or without kids, or that you're living in an apartment. An electric violin allows you to practice any time that I want without disturbing anyone.

@@fiddlefaddle1 its why I just bought one. Especially my place having super thin walls and so much acoustics outside from all the walls.

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@@Fiddlershop loved this video!

Whaaaaat? 😃

Thanks for watching! The YEV 104 is in the video.