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My duo partner uses a Fishman resonator pickup in his Regal Duolian, and bumps it up with a simple little one knobber MXR Micro Amp boost ped. For the most part, it sounds like a million bucks as DI'ed to a PA. On the few occasions where we've been exceptionally loud, the low mids had a tendency to get away from him and bloom, in which case some additional outboard EQ tweaks were necessary. However, that's mostly nervous nellie talk - it sounds fantastic 99 times out of a hundred.
As I understand it, the tricone/spider thing is exceedingly challenging with a system such as the Fishman. In fact, my mate passed on a tricone instrument for these reasons alone.
I know that I've encountered all sorts of sonic horribleness and snafu with microphone approaches as to otherwise really good dobro players in the live environment. Mic'ing is cool, but unless you're Jerry Douglas (or have sound reinforcement and crew that is accordingly supportive), it's a bit tough to call the shots and predict sonic outcome over a wide variety of live scenarios if you're working in the trenches.
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