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  • Gabe Grantham November 30, 2012 at 4:58pm

    Awesome idea!  I thought about doing this very thing the other day but with the mics from old rotary dial telephone handsets.

    The mics are small enough that I'm probably going to mount one under each string and run them to one master volume.  It's just an idea thus far and I'll take any comments to the yay or nay on it.  Aaaaannnnndddd.....GO!

    • jabes > Gabe Grantham December 4, 2012 at 4:27pm

      have fun, see ya with the outcome ....

  • David L. October 18, 2012 at 4:37pm

    Do you mean a blend pot so when you connect 2 pickups to it and as you rotate one gets less as the other get more?

    If yes the diagram is here

    http://www.stewmac.com/freeinfo/Electronics/Pots/i-4137.html

    or drawn onto a pot to show which pickup goes to which middle lug (halfway down)

    http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-technical/252761-blend-pot-question...

     

    • OldNick > David L. October 18, 2012 at 6:47pm

      Thanks, David.  The second link was exactly what I needed.  Got it wired and it works great.

      I have a license plate resonator CBG that is made with a motorcycle plate, so it only takes up half the box.  I had the piezo mounted directly on the license plate, and the sound was too harsh for my liking.

      So I added a second piezo and attached it to the wooden box lid.    Now I can control how much sound comes from each piezo, and I can adjust the sound to suit what I'm playing.   

      learned something new today. thanks to all for your input.

      nick

    • jabes > OldNick November 18, 2012 at 8:22am

      i just bought a couple of blend pots to do this with a piezo rod and a single coil pup. I also bought some vol pots but they are A 10k much lower than the 250k i normally use, i know nothing about how these things work, will i be able to use these and what effect might i expect? any ideas/remarks please...

    • David L. > jabes November 18, 2012 at 2:27pm

      Hi Jabes,

      I've never used a 10K pot as a passive volume on a guitar but somewhere on the comments board I recall someone tried a 50K pot with a piezo and found the sound was good. According to what I have read the lower the value the more top end/treble is lost so for a piezo it might be a good thing.  Having had a quick search on the www there isn't much info regarding 10k pots for magnetic pickups - just the usual humbucker=500k. songlecoil=250K but then again if you go back a few years many of these guitar forums were dubious about using piezo discs as a pickup so who knows?

      If you give it a go please report back :o)

       

      Regards,

      David

    • jabes > David L. November 18, 2012 at 5:55pm

      hi david, i was thinking much the same ,and just doing piezo only -1 rod in the bridge and a disc just forward under  the 'lid' and still useing a blend pot well try it out anyway.

      i'll use 250k for the mag/ piezo  setup ... see what happens ,we could both do the same thing but a different box,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

      will do. got 3 things guit wise going on ,

  • Redbelly October 18, 2012 at 4:13pm

    There is a good article in Wikipedia under "Guitar Wiring "

  • steven beck October 18, 2012 at 2:34pm

    now there's a good question!  i never thought of trying that.  i'm just tryin' to jump-start the thread,  i'm sure it can be done. i'll be waiting for an answer along with you.  cool idea!

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