piezo size?
Does the piezo size make a difference, and if so, in what ways? Y'all have been a great help!
Read more…Does the piezo size make a difference, and if so, in what ways? Y'all have been a great help!
Read more…Hi everybody,
I built my first cigar box guitar with a wooden wine case and I put a piezo transducter inside to plug it to my amp.
But I have a little problem, I made the connections like the diagram just below but when I connect it to my amp, I need
Read more…Howdy all...Was wondering if anyone has a suggestion about this.
I want to wire up 1 single coil w/ volume & tone, 1 under saddle piezo rod w/ volume & tone all tied into a master volume (no 3 way switch.)
This is as close as I've come
Read more…Hullo Folks. I have a small question regarding a rod piezo bridge/saddle that I intend to make.I noticed that Chickenbone John when he makes his, it is a small shaped block of solid wood with the piezo rod embedded inside with a bone saddle on top an
Read more…bassically I just want to know which side of the piezo to glue to the box lid? as ive not been told any different my insticts tell me that the ceramic side is where the sound is picked up so this should be fixed to the lid on the other hand the metal
Read more…I thought this may be helpful to anyone who is tempted to hack those rod piezos. As an experiment I successfully cut one of the piezo elements off of a 6 string one and wired it to a jack so I now have a 1 string, under saddle rod piezo. It is tricky
Read more…Was wondering about peoples opinion on where best to place a piezo rod? Internally under the bridge or externally in the bridge ? cheers
Read more…Hello, Sorry if this sounds like a newbie question but I have been searching for info on extending the piezo pickup wires, not found anything. Should I be concerned with doing this, what is the best way? Hope you can help! Regards Ed
Read more…G'DAY, another ''simple" question form downunder: I bought some of those piezo rod pickups from c.b.gitty without really knowing what they were. they have a connector thingy at the end of the wire...so my question is: how to I solder it to an input j
Read more…Hello everyone, this is my first post here at CBN, although I've read through quite a few threads here.
Yesterday I decided to build some surface mount piezos for an archtop I have, the plan being to wire the output to the existing one so I could ble
Read more…I'm working on a 100 year old cigar box with a (?) year old copper ladle cup. I want to locate the bridge right on the top outer edge of the cup and have 2 piezo's work on the ladle cup (one on the sidewall - the other one located on the flat bottom.
Read more…i actually got this idea from crocbite so he gets any credit due but wanted to share with others
i found a new way to mount piezo rods without having to have direct string pressure. i know some of you may already know this but i for one was struggl
Read more…Finished my two-string bass tonight. Looks real nice, action is fine for fretless playing (neck is a poplar 1x2 with a quarter-inch slab of red oak for a fingerboard). Plugged it in and got this: doodley squat.
I tested the piezo with the "plug it in
Read more…Hello everybody
I'm new to the world of CBG, but eager to build my first guitar. I'm planning to craft a 4 strings one, and here is my question: i want a dirty, overdriven bluesy sound, which i known i won't get with a piezo. So i'm looking at magne
Read more…Hello guys, new here to the forums. I am currently building a solid body electric guitar, and I am wondering if this piezo rod (https://www.cbgitty.com/cubecart/guitar-electronics/pickups/rod-piezo-acoustic-instrument-pickup.html) would work as a pi
Read more…OK, so a day of frigging around with different stuff has lead me to a passive tone control for piezo.
Some background: If you ever tried a normal guitar volume and tone setup on a passive piezo, you'll know the tone control doesn't work as it should.
Read more…I live in Estonia. It's hard to find used cigarbox or humidor in Estonia. New humidors are 51 euro.For me buying form ebay is to expensive. I have never build a guitar only didley bow.
I'am not soft guitar player. I don't like nylon strings.
I neve
Read more…I'm hunting for materials for my first build now, and was wondering what I should do for tuning and such. So far I have some fretwire, tuning pegs, and an EMG Select humbucker pickup. Originally, my idea was to make a stick dulcimer/dulcitar, but now
Read more…I got some different sizes piezo discs to experiment with, but there's one size that has 2 zones on the ceramic plate on top. I found out that they are called 3 contact piezos. Where do i solder my hot lead? The big surface or the small bit?
Thanks
Read more…I have a couple piezo-electrocuted guitars, and they tend to feed back on higher gain and volume settings. When I place my arm firmly on the box right aboot where the piezo is placed in the box it eliminates most of the feedback. My question is, if I
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