Random Phrygiolian Acoustic E-missions

The name "Random Phrygiolian Acoustic E-missions" describes this instrumental acoustic guitar recording in a silly manner. I played a bunch of random things that came to mind in the standard key of E minor. The standard minor scale is also known as the Aeolian mode. I threw in some F's a few times instead of F#, which shifts the scale into the Phrygian mode, so I made up the word PHRYGIOLIAN. Playing an instrument emits a sound, of course, and since the recording is done in E, I created the hyphenated word E-MISSIONS.
People have been astounded by the things I can do with extrememly inexpensive (or free) things. I, myself, would have it no other way! Here is why this recording exists:
I bought an extremely cheap acoustic instrument pickup online directly from Monoprice in July of 2017, hoping to be able to use it with my ultra-cheapo Carlo Robelli acoustic guitar at A Praise in the Park that year. After messing with it for awhile, I decided I didn't like how it sounded. I didn't bother to return the pickup to Monoprice; it cost me less than $3--including shipping--if I remember correctly. I bought the guitar a few years prior at Larry's Music, a local music store in Wooster, not far from home. It only cost $75! It played well and sounded good, and I'd been wanting one for many years. It had a built-in pickup, complete with volume and EQ sliders on top, but it would only output a weak, almost inaudible signal if I tinkered with it enough. I decided it was not worth the effort to try to fix or replace the hardware.
In August of that same year (2017) I was studying a new song we would be playing at church. I picked up the guitar to pluck out some notes to figure what key the song was in, but it was badly out of tune. I decided to use the previously mentioned pickup to play the guitar into a tuner program I have on my computer. I played with it some more, doing some quick recordings in Audacity, but I still didn't like the way it sounded. Out of curiosity I decided to try the same pickup on my cheapo Cort electric guitar, attaching it to the head. That recording sounded more like a natural acoustic guitar, except that the pickup was amplifying harmonics from the back side of the strings too much sometimes (the opposite side of the string where the fret is fingered). The audio quality also changed depending on how well the pickup was clamped onto the head. That got me thinking that I might be able to get a good sound from the acoustic after all. After tinkering with the pickup a bit, I decided it sounded best clamped onto the upper edge of the resonation hole near the bottom of the neck. This way it was easy to avoid striking the pickup itself while playing. I taped down the cord to avoid any knocking noises, tapping from my pick, or vibrations directly from the string (it's a very sensitive pickup), and I performed a few recording tests shifting around the 2-band EQ settings on my external mixer. Cranking up the high end considerably and turning up the low just slightly yielded the sound you hear in this recording. I compared the audio quality of the recording to Becoming the Archetype's "Night's Sorrow", from their TERMINATE DAMNATION album, and I decided this was good enough to keep. I added some reverb using Audacity, and that's that.
I have to say that this ultra-cheap Monoprice pickup works very well. I have seen some very bad reviews for the item online. The problem is that it comes with no instructions for its usage. To anyone who thinks of purchasing one of these, I say, "Go for it!" The key is to be sure the pickup is securely clamped onto a flat surface wide enough to cover its entire "receptor circle" and run its output signal through an equalizer of some sort, as I described above.