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Permalink Reply by Poorness Studios on March 6, 2020 at 10:21am

I made a few a while back and got one that sounded pretty good. I used 3 piezo discs and a ukulele preamp (turn the bass all the way up and treble all the way down). It sounds okay, but I still tend to EQ out some of the midrange when I record it. I've thought about soldering a capacitor on the output jack to filter out some of the midrange permanently... but I've just never got around to doing it. The preamp makes a big difference when dealing with piezos.

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Permalink Reply by Poorness Studios on March 6, 2020 at 10:24am

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Permalink Reply by James Pobog on March 6, 2020 at 1:41pm

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Permalink Reply by James Pobog on March 6, 2020 at 1:43pm

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Permalink Reply by David L. on March 8, 2020 at 5:20pm

I got a good result from a large wooden  with a box 5 inch 8W speaker glued in one corner to the back and two piezo discs glued to the lid. Wiring them with a blend pot gave a good variation in sound. Using the two different types of microphone (speaker and piezo) made it sound like bongos if you tapped different places).

The two jack sockets were so I could piggyback the signal onto that from a guitar to one amp.

The two knobs were blend and volume.

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Permalink Reply by James Pobog on March 8, 2020 at 6:19pm

I'm kinda going that way, I have a bunch of small speakers, from some small 1x2 ovals to a big 6 inch heavy sub woofer, and a couple tweeters and lots in between. I also picked up a vouple plastic cases, sort of like small briefcases/tool/pistol cases. They go 'thump' rather nicely.

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