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The following is a message from Schertler founder and president, Stephan Schertler.
I have been involved in the development of solid state transducers for a number of years, seeking alternatives to the use of piezo in recording and sound reinforcement. There is no need here to go into the disadvantages and shortcomings of piezo pickups - they are well enough known to professional musicians.
I made a significant advance in 1985 with the construction of a bridge pick-up for the double bass based on electrostatic principles. The worldwide success of this pickup indicated that I was proceeding along the right lines.
But I personally always considered this as merely a first - even wrong-footed - step. Despite the electrostatic's linear response with regard to the kind of large amplitudes characteristic of the sounding board of a piano or the belly of a double bass, it is really not ideal.
The next task was clear: to find the "physically perfect soundless transducer". Soundless because even in the back row we want to hear the pianist and only the pianist - not the pick-up.
I was determined that even the harshest piano chord should be within the dynamic range of my sought after transducer, and that the resulting reproduction had to be as pure and faithful to the heaviest double bass rhythms as to the fieriness of the flamenco guitar.
It turned out that only one electrodynamic transducer could meet such stringent requirements. Years of further research and development were required to bring the original concept to the point where it could be applied generally to all acoustic instruments.
Additional research led to the development of an under-saddle condenser microphone transducer for steel- and nylon-string guitars and acoustic bass guitars. Now acoustic guitarists can hear the true sound of their instrument when amplified with BLUESTiCK.
I present the results of this work to you in the following pages, not without a certain pride, in the conviction that this new generation of transducers will open a whole new world of acoustic possibilities to the discerning user.
If you get the feeling during a performance that your instrument, equipped with a SCHERTLER AUDIO TRANSDUCER, sounds entirely "acoustic", just as if you were sitting in your living room at home, then I will feel my efforts have been worthwhile - just precisely in that I have added nothing to your sound.
Regards,
Stephan Schertler
and the SCHERTLER AUDIO TRANSDUCERS team
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