vox/gtr looping with no active gtr

[hooty2]

greetings all.
I have possibly answered my own question but maybe people have other ideas?
My latest request from our daughters germany student house came in this morning. A young lady friend of my daughter wants to make loops on her voice and guitar with a view to playing at a local open mic session.
I'm visiting soon so proposed a long loan of my boss RC-30 loop station.
I discovered her guitar has no active component.
My suggestion will be, to fit a passive pick up across the sound hole with possibly a mic on the guitar if she wants to try a bit of foot juggling.
I'm thinking there is no other route to stardom for the young lady?

[Wonks]

A mic on a guitar at an open mic-style event with very little control and set-up time is asking for trouble. So a pickup on the guitar would be the sensible way. Even if it's bedroom only stuff at the moment, if it grows into more then she might as well get used to playing a guitar with a pickup.

[Drew Stephenson]

What Wonks said. A soundhole pickup is the way to go, some of them actually sound half-decent these days too.

[Wonks]

We have assumed it’s a steel-string guitar, but it could easily be a nylon string. A sound-hole pickup won’t work on that.

A stick-on piezo bug would be the cheapest option there, but if she’s sticking with nylon strings then I think getting an electro-acoustic nylon-strung guitar would be the better long-term option.

[Sam Spoons]

This ^^^ but stick on piezo's usually sound pretty awful.

WRT soundhole pickups, budget is an issue, good sounding soundhole pickups are expensive and cheap ones usually sound more like an electric guitar. Fishman Rare Earth are the best I've found but expensive, you could buy a used budget steel strung electro-acoustic for what a Rare Earth Blend will cost you but nylon string electro-acoustic guitars are not particularly common.

I did have one of these and it was not too bad https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fishman-Passiv ... D0NRK&th=1

[hooty2]

thanks for that feedback. I agree very much with the live sound issue that could/probably would ensue.
My RC-30 is currently in delinquent mode (only making very short loops) so i'm thinking of giving her the easier RC-1 pedal and passing on the 'next guitar' and acoustic pickup advice.
The fx for vox is a bit trickier and i haven't found a basic pedal for that yet.
step by step and slowly and thanks again for the advice

[Drew Stephenson]

The fx for vox is a bit trickier and i haven't found a basic pedal for that yet.

What's the challenge here?

[shufflebeat]

https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/ik ... g-acoustic

[Wonks]

https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/ik ... g-acoustic

No longer made. Seems to have been replaced by the iRig Acoustic Stage.

https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/i ... 2ZVsKjIH50

https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/ik ... stic-stage

But that too seems to have been discontinued.

[shufflebeat]

Oops, that was the one I thought I was linking to, thanks.

[shufflebeat]

[later…]

However, if one can be found in the second-hand world I’ve found mine to be very useful in this kind of situation.