Then a few on an acoustic with pickup, using amplifiers: "You Never Call" — new and unreleased, a minor-key complaint to someone in heaven — and "Love and War".
Amplifying acoustic instruments with pickups is tricky, because the pickups aren't uniformly sensitive throughout a range of pitches and tones.
He was playing not a Fender electric, but a Gibson acoustic with an electronic pickup.
The horn of the phonograph is represented as a transmission line, and is a resistive load for the rest of the circuit, while all the mechanical and acoustic parts—from the pickup needle through to the horn are translated into lumped components according to the impedance analogy.
The following February, Dylan appeared on Les Crane's nationally broadcast, late-night TV talk show, dressed not in his customary suede and denim but in a modish suit and performing with an accompanist, Bruce Langhorne, who played an acoustic guitar with an electronic pickup.
Finally, a coupled acoustic-structural analysis of a pickup truck subjected to 46 random variables was performed, demonstrating the ability of the new method to solve large-scale engineering problems.
Every track but one was recorded with a 1959 Martin guitar — an acoustic model, but one with a pickup and volume and tone controls built in — and no overdubs or other studio manipulations.
Electric guitar strings have a different composition than acoustic guitar strings to help the pickups function properly; specifically they have steel wrapping instead of bronze.
The songs began on a nylon-string acoustic guitar that Rodriguez outfitted with a pickup and played through a bass amp.
It was so light and stiff yet resonant that it could sound almost like an acoustic guitar when played with the piezoelectric pickups that Fishman designed for it.
"We wanted an acoustic concert," he said, "without any microphones or pickup.
