Creating the AEG-1 | L.R. Baggs
Company founder Lloyd Baggs talks about the background and design of the new AEG-1 acoustic-electric guitar.
L.R. Baggs&#; new AEG-1 is one of the most advanced acoustic-electric guitars ever built. Designed from the ground up to offer optimal acoustic guitar sound in amplified settings, the guitar uses a highly innovative internal structure and it is fine-tuned for L.R. Baggs&#; flagship HiFi Duet pickup and microphone system. In this video, company founder Lloyd Baggs talks about his background as a luthier, how he got into amplification, and the specifics of the AEG-1 design. The clip also includes footage of the guitars being built at Crafter Guitar&#;s South Korean factory, as well as performances by Mitch Grainger, Trey Hensley, and Molly Tuttle.
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John Oates InterviewLR Baggs presents John Oates talking about how Lloyd Baggs began his journey in music in forth grade as a cellist. After playing in youth symphonies he landed in the UCLA symphony while still in high school. Lloyd graduated from college with a degree in Fine Art and made his first guitar while working as a fine art master printer. Moving to LA he made made guitars for Jackson Browne, Ry Cooder, Janis Ian, Graham Nash and others. Lloyd’s interest in pickups began with Ry’s quest to amplify the acoustic he’d built for Ry and led to the LB6, a retrofittable pickup that would not damage the guitar. His goal in forming LR Baggs was and still is to amplify the acoustic guitar as faithfully as possible. If you have updated information, contact or demographic details on this person, please contact Dan Del Fiorentino and be sure to add the interviewee's name in the subject field. Lloyd Baggs on His Digital Conversion and the Development of the Voiceprint Acoustic D.I.For more than four decades, Lloyd Baggs and his company, L.R. Baggs, have routinely upped the ante for acoustic-electric tone. Baggs began as a luthier working closely with Ry Cooder. Through a bizarre incident involving a guitar Baggs made for the guitarist, Takamine’s pickup system, and Cooder’s disdain for his unwieldy road rig, Baggs became focused on acoustic amplification. He’s been an analog man all along, creating ever-improving pickup systems, preamps, and direct boxes. More recently, Baggs released the Synapse Personal P.A. and a range of Align acoustic effects. Both earned Guitar Player Editors’ Pick awards and represented the company’s first wadings into the digital waters. Baggs’ newest innovation, the Voiceprint D.I. ($ street) is a headlong dive into the deep end. Voiceprint is a direct-input stompbox for acoustic-electric guitars that works in conjunction with Baggs’ new AcousticLive app on iPhone via Bluetooth.
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