New to Cigar Box Nation, preamp needed?

Hey ive been playing electric violin for years and have just recently discovered these amazing instruments and i am looking to make my first cigar box from the plan provided on this site to make it electric but i had a question, If i intend to be running this instrument through my pedal board and half stack am i going to need a preamp?any suggestions would be great because i want to make my first one asap!

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  • thanks for the help!
  • Your pedal board may actually act as an adequate preamp.

    I regularly plug straight into a Roland mini-cube and it sounds great - obviously its preamp handles the piezo input OK.
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