One of IK&rsquo;s particularly finely-honed talents is spotting a gap in the market and coming up with a guitar product to&nbsp;fill it &ndash; and it&rsquo;s often one that makes recording and performing easier for us players. The iRig Acoustic Stage follows on from 2015&rsquo;s mic-only model by adding a battery-powered DSP preamp. The idea is that you fit the plectrum shaped MEMS mic to your guitar&rsquo;s sound hole and then into the preamp that provides EQ presets for standard acoustic and nylon-string (we liked Bright best). You can then connect to a&nbsp;recording device via a USB, into a PA via jack or even combine signals with your guitars existing piezo by using a separate auxiliary input from your guitar and the mix control. Nice.The little mic captures the organic natural sound of our dreadnought well and it&rsquo;s easy to fit to a guitar you&rsquo;ve never been able to use live before. The caveats are the mic cable seems flimsy and the output is low and so no match for an active onboard preamp with a piezo so you&rsquo;ll need to boost it to hit performance and decent recording levels. Any feedback we experienced when we turned up&nbsp;our acoustic combo was easily dealt with by the multi-frequency enabled &lsquo;cancel feedback&rsquo; button.The Acoustic Stage has been positioned in a middle ground: it&rsquo;s understandably neither as detailed as using a condenser mic or as powerful as active sound hole or piezo systems. But for recording that also means it won&rsquo;t pick up as much unwanted noise.For a quick and simple solution for amplified solo performance there&rsquo;s nothing else quite like it on the market.

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