I was a member of the old Yahoo group, and just joined this one. I recently built a 4 string, fretted baritone CBG tuned BEAD, low to high. The piezo pickup is imbedded in the bridge plate (a piece of red oak) and insulated with a piece of thin foam. The two inner strings come through great, but the outer two can barely be heard through the amp. I wouldn't think the piezo is defective since it picks up two of the strings, but I'm not sure.
Any ideas? Thanks,
Seane
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Huntz Meyer said:
I intended it to be a set it and forget it switch so it is flush with box side under the jack. A pocketknife switches it.
At home with my Noisy Cricket, with 100K pulldown resistor on the input, parallel sounded best - smooth and natural. At the guitar store, through a Fishman amp, parallel made the high E string considerably louder that the rest. Flipped to Series and everything evened out and sounded great. It was my first attempt at recoding a video, and the card filled up just as we were getting to the electric, so I don't have a recording of the difference.
http://www.huntzmeyer.com/gallery.html
For a stage CBG, a DPDT On-On toggle might allow for different effect, but if you run dual piezos the switch makes life easy.
Thanks,
Huntz
Ok?
Seane Crews said:
Seane Crews said:
I'll try to get some pics up later. Thanks to everyone for the input.
Don
Seane Crews said:
Seane Crews said:
As I stated before your saddle is not in contact with the piezo, the vibrations on the outside strings are being damped by wood . The simple drawing shows what I mean, the saddle contacts the piezo therfore the string vibrations are equally transmitted to the piezo. Yours doesn't. No amount of changing glues will change the way your bridge behaves. A single piezo would certainly work on your soundboard but in your situation I would go with two and be done with it.
Don