baggs vs fishman

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Ben Hoare
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baggs vs fishman

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Hi all I have used a bagg para di for my dobro for sometime and would like to change to a jerry douglas aura.Has anyone used both and can you tell me how they compare as I haven't seen an Aura in Australia yet.
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The Aura seems to be a modeling thingy. You can send your Aura to Fishman and get them to add a new sound to it (why can't you do that at home?). I don't care for that approach because it tries to take the hardware that reproduces the sound out of the equation.

I do like Fishman's Para DI. It's basically the same thing as the Baggs DI. I sold my Fishman DI because I use Fishman's Acoustic Blender (Crown M-200 mic plus bridge transducer) on my 6-string acoustics and really like it. I'm gonna stay with that until I hear something that sounds a lot better.

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The current "Jerry Douglas" Aura imaging pedal for resonator guitar does not allow for additional mic images. Fishman and Jerry have locked into the 16 that come with the pedal.

I don't believe the original (large) Aura is still available.

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