Magnetic Professional Pickup for Handpans and Tongue drums

Professional Magnetic Pickup for Handpan amplification (XLR) Main features: Magentic, Balanced XLR output (need 48V phatom power), Active, Aluminum body. Versatile solution for any kind of handpan or tongue drum Orbis Mage is an active pickup designed specifically for instruments such as Handpans and Pantams, as well as for most kinds of steel tongue drums instruments. Orbis Mage is designed to amplify and record musical instruments. Working with a pickup is simple and intuitive. For the amplifying of handpan usually 2 pickups are needed for better performance. Pickups have magnets inside so you can mount it at any place of your handpan. We recommend to mount 2 pickups at the opposite sides of the bottom of your handpan. But you can choose any place on the top or bottom side. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apC_eB7cXy8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4UuDoguPZQ Main characteristics and features of Orbis Mage handpan pickup: • Strong Neodim Magnet inside • Noiseless • Aluminum body (unlike plastic, metal shields against electromagnetic interference) • Active pickups - this means that the sound reproduced by such sensors is cleaner, stronger. Like most professional sound equipment, pickups have XLR jacks and need 48V phantom power. • Ease of use and versatility - the sensors have a built-in magnet, which allows them to be used with the vast majority of handpans and tongue drums. • Flexible sound adjustment - the pickup can be fixed anywhere in your instrument, so you can adjust the sound by placing the pickups on different sections of your handpan or tongue drum Using of OM active microphones pickups: - Take a pickup and insert it in the input of the amplifier, sound mixer, preamp, effect processor or sound card. Make sure that the device has 48 V onboard and this option is turned on. - Place the OM pickup on the surface of your instrument. We advice to use the bottom side of your pan however you can place it wherever you want - Activate your sound device (amplifier, sound card, mixer, etc.). - Try to play your handpan. Use volume or gain knobs (or faders) on your amp/mixer/soundcard to set the desired volume. - If you have no sound, take the pickup in hand and slightly knock it with your finger. If you still can't hear no signal – examine your sound device and make sure, that all cables are inserted properly, the channel on the mixer is not muted, phantom power is ON, volume and gain knobs on your amp are not turned off. - Start playing your handpan. Spend some time for choosing the best place for OM mics. Usually it is about 5-10 cm (2-4”) from the sound hole. But you can check any other place – varying the position of OM mics you can change the sound. - Set the EQ of your sound device (mixer, amp, preamp, processor, internal EQ of your sound card). This is a very essential part of the process if you want to get the right sound. You can scoop highs if there are to much harsh and"click" or scoop bass if too much woofing and pay attention to mids – usually mid frequencies are the most informative for our ears and determine the overal character of sound. - Enjoy playing your handpan! WARNING! Please read the following: - Do not disassemble the pickup!! There is nothing interesting inside, but trying to disassemble the microphone you can destroy it! - Do not throw! Do not hit with hard objects. Do not put the pickup into the water. - Do not try to plug in the OM microphone to the amp using adaptors from XLR to 1/4" linear jack. It won't work - Be carefull with the volume of your amplifier, especially when play in the headphones. Too high volume level can damage your ears. - Do not plug in the pickups to unknwown devices. - Yes, you can play heavy metal using OM pickup but please note that usually tube guitar amp heads and combos, such as your beloved JCM 800, Peavey 5150 or else do not have phantom power onboard. Please use the devices, such as Orbis Duo with onboard 48V power if you want to plug OM mics to your valve amp. ALL pickups are tested before shipping. Please read the description and instruction carefully. No Refund