Darol Anger tests the ToneDexter

Freestyle Fiddler Darol Anger tries out a new piece of amplification gear: the ToneDexter preamp. Designed to recreate the instrument's body sound from a direct pickup signal, this unit works really really well. For the verdict, skip to 14:55.
Darol used his regular 5-string fiddle and a bridge pickup from Eric Aceto.
For more of Darol's rantings and musical musings, check out his online Fiddle School at
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[@robtsologtr]

I’ve been using the Tonedexter for about a year on classical guitar, and am very pleased. I took the next step and had James May (inventer of the Tonedexter) instal his “ultra tonic” pickup to my Kenny Hill classical guitar with great results. I’ve ended up recording a few different wave maps with different characteristics to fit with different amps and systems I use. Still need to program wave maps for steel string guitar, mando, and fiddle but with 24 slots available there will be plenty of room to do the same sort of catering to various amplification systems. James is a great guy to work with 👍🏼

[@chrisdaniels6947]

From 9:49 on, the sound of the podcast is so bad that it’s hard to tell what the fiddle sounds like. I’ll take your word for it. As a sound man for a few festivals I heartily agree about the lack of time between acts. Love your playing. We met a few times at Henryfest.

[@calebbhawkins]

I did roughly the same thing with a cheap $60 pedal off Amazon and a $40 plug-in from Melda using my recording software. Of course my budget pedal can only hold 11 presets and doesn’t have a tuner… But there’s a lot that can be done these days with IR files. The Tonedexter does seem to be a solid tool for the pro user, very nice to see. What I find interesting is the idea that you could sample a nice violin and then in a pinch run something like a carbon fiber Glasser through images of a much finer fiddle

[@JustFiddler]

matur suksma😊

[@jimbuchanan5550]

What re those papers you have over the f holes?