User manual

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LiveGuitar H-clamp
The LiveGuitar H-clamp’s standard shaft length is optimised to allow it to
be mounted on the widest possible range of acoustic guitars. It can be ad-
justed to fit widths:
84mm - 116mm
The standard shaft should fit all but the shallowest or deepest of acoustic
guitar sound boxes but if your instrument falls outside these limits, adapt
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ers can be purchased separately to extend the useable range to fit both
narrower and wider guitars.
At the lower end of this extended range, the LiveGuitar H-clamp should fit
the thinnest acoustic electric guitar, resonator guitars, ukuleles, bouzoukis,
mandolas, mandolins, banjos.... or even straight electric guitars. Visit our
web site (exploraudio.com) for more details.
The value of being able to amplify the acoustic sounds generated by elec
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tric guitars may not be immediately obvious but can add interesting tonal
effects and may be particularly useful when experimenting with electric
guitar sounds in the studio. On stage, a more common use for the H-clamp
with electric guitars is to allow standard professional vocal microphones to
be fitted onto the electric body. Being able to attach a vocal microphone to
the upper edge of the body, solely to pick up the guitarist’s voice gives vo-
calists who also play electric guitar more freedom to ‘roam’ the stage. More
details about this and other applications can be found in the Applications
pages for LiveGuitar on the Exploraudio web site (exploraudio.com). These
are being expanded continuously as users find more ways to exploit the H-
clamp’s capabilities but the possibilities are endless. The guidance provided
in the following pages is solely to indicate some of the more popular and/or
obvious ways of using the H-clamp on a guitar. There is no need to restrict
your use of the H-clamp to these suggestions, its design invites experi-
mentation and allows you to adapt its use specifically to your own instru-
ments, playing styles and sound preferences.
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