IK Multimedia Acoustic Stage

Is this new pickup system taking the mic?

- Rob Laing

One of IK’s particularly finely-honed talents is spotting a gap in the market and coming up with a guitar product to fill it – and it’s often one that makes recording and performing easier for us players. The iRig Acoustic Stage follows on from 2015’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’s sound hole and then into the preamp that provides EQ presets for standard acoustic and nyl