Ready for a Peche A La Mouche pickup!

TheGarethJones · July 26

Obviously, these are few and far between on the internet, so if anyone wants to get rid of one, I just got paid and my Paypal is ready!

Please let me know so I can take the next step!

voutoreenie · July 27

You're going to have a tough time finding a Peche for much less than list, they tend to hold their value pretty well.

Also, thought you might want to know the Peche may not be entirely compatible with your Altamira - I was going to use my M20 at a recent gig and the Peche was too "tall" for the neck profile, strings would come in direct contact with it when fretting notes higher up the neck like 12th fret and beyond (luckily I tried it out at home first...would have major sucked to have discovered that at the gig instead lol)

TheGarethJones · July 28

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/118003#Comment_118003

I may just be too antsy to wait, anyway. I do have a DG-370 as well, so I'll do some measuring and see what it has in store for me. I hadn't even thought that it might not fit, so thanks very much for the heads up!

TheGarethJones · July 28

In the words of Marie Antoinette “Fuck it. I bought one from Michael and we’ll see if it works.”

TheGarethJones · August 1

So, just a little info: Got the pickup today and it sounds incredible on the Altamira M30. I have tons of clearance (I don’t have my action TOO high, either) but did need to use one of the included shims to lift the bass end, which helped regular the sound a bit.

Right now, I’m playing it through a Boss Cube Street II and, unsurprisingly, it doesn’t get that overdriven edge, but it gets veeerrry close if I crank treble, midrange, and the gain to 11 (though I’m dubious about the effect of “gain” vs volume on this silly thing).

I also have a DG-370 that has the brace a little too close to the soundhole for it to sit comfortably, but I bet with a little putty and a bit more experimenting, I could make it work. It has a K&K in it, so I ran that straight out to the other channel and it sounds great that way, so I see no reason to swap the Peche.

While we’re on the subject of the DG370, I found the original reverb listing and it had the same Brown case with stickers all over it (that I’ve partially cleaned up). Wondering if it belonged to someone here before me?

tl;dr The Peche A La Mouche fits on my Altamira M30.

Sick.

JasonS · August 2

If you want the grind/drive when you dig in look at low wattage tube amps. I use a Vintage 47 but lots of things would work.

voutoreenie · August 2

@TheGarethJones So glad to hear the Peche is compatible with your Altamira! Makes me more bummed about mine lol. And JasonS is right on the money, if you're going for that overdriven Django sound, a tube amp is what you need - I really like Fender tube amps because they're more reasonably priced and easy to find on the used market but there's a ton of super nice boutique options as well if you don't mind spending the coin on one.

Also, if you're ever after a great clean tone with the Peche, it's fine on it's own but blending it together with a soundboard contact mic (like the one from manouchepicks) through an acoustic-specific amp like the Compact 60 that has 2 channels really gives the best tone quality for most gigs imo - basically gives you the best of both worlds.

TheGarethJones · August 2

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/118033#Comment_118033

For sure! I actually used to run my harmonica through a (Shure) bullet and a fender blues junior, but I sold that years ago and I was kicking my ass thinking about what could’ve been.

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/118034#Comment_118034

This was my original plan, in a way, with the DG 370. It has that can K&K soundboard pickup on it and the thought was that I could just use a foot switch to A/B an acoustic tone and an electric tone or mix the two, but this is all just fantasy in my head because it’s not like I’m playing with anyone yet. I’m a singer 🤣

Thanks for the thoughts!

TheGarethJones · August 2

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/118034#Comment_118034

Also, I just decided I would get that boss because it was so cheap and had so many amazing functions. The real goal is for sure a Peche A La Mouche amp or, as I may have seen you post about on this forum, a Vintage 47 - they sound great. Depending on the payday, maybe it’s one of those Dupont Steimer amps… Again, though, just dreams, as it’s not super necessary for me to spend tooo much money playing at the wall with a cooler tone I spent big bucks on 🤣

DoubleWhisky · August 3

A nice cheaper option that also tries to capture that field coil era tube amp style is the Supro Delta King, especially the 10 with it's 6v6 tubes (that one has 5 watts, so i guess you would get a fairly dirty 1947ish Stimer tone with it on bar gig volumes, there is also a 15 watt version)