If I fit a hard tail bridge to a new build CBG, will I be able to play it acoustically as well as electrically via my GittyBucker pickup?
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If I fit a hard tail bridge to a new build CBG, will I be able to play it acoustically as well as electrically via my GittyBucker pickup?
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Hi again, sounds like you worked it out. That style of bridge,with its mass, restricts the loss of vibration to the body so as to keep it in the strings (improving sustain) so helping the pickup to work better. You will get sound when played unplugged but the tonal properties would be lacking.
Taff
Hi Taffy, that’s what I was thinking about, the substantial fixing affecting the resonance of the lid.
Hi Michael, I think you will find that the acoustic response will suffer using a heavy steel bridge, as would how it is fitted to the top (into a block or at the very end of the guitar).
Taff
Bridge type doesn’t matter