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The Importance of a Contact Microphone in Gymnastics
"I love Chet Atkins to this day but for the next two years after I got the acoustic guitar all I was trying to do was make it louder. And I stumbled across the contact microphone which is a device, a microphone that you actually can stick right onto the top of the guitar," he says. "By the time we put the contact microphones on there it gave a new level of depth because the contact microphone hears the vibration in the entire bar."
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