Will he be knocked out stone cold, or seduced like Bath-sheba?
COMPANY BACKGROUND Founded in the early 1980s, Schertler are a Swiss company best known for their high quality acoustic pickups. Schertler have recently made a few modifications to their already available acoustic amplifier, the David. We’ll take a closer look at the David soon, but firstly I’d like to give you a little background on this company. Schertler have made their reputation in making specialist pickups for all manner of acoustic instruments, including guitar, resonator guitar, double bass, in fact, pretty much almost any acoustic instrument you care to think of. To the company’s credit, in the United States, companies like Gibson, C.F. Martin, and Santa Cruz are now offering Schertler’s Bluestick under-saddle condenser microphone acoustic guitar pickups fitted as standard. FIRST IMPRESSIONS The first thing that struck me about the Schertler David was a distinct similarity in design to that of an amp I had recently reviewed for Acoustic, namely the JAM 150, designed and manufa
