Today on Facebook, someone told me that you cannot use piezo on a solid body guitar, because piezos work on resonance and solid bodies have no hollow to resonate in, I called bullshit and gave the Yamaha silent guitar as an example.
What say ye good folk of the mighty cigar box nation?
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Oooo! An argument on Facebook! Those are always the best kinds.
Of course it will work. May not work well depending on how you place it, but it will work.
On my daughter's electric upright bass I had to play around a lot to get a decent piezo sound. I tried one of the red dot stick on pickups on the bridge and it didn't work very well. The body is a long beam with a traditional height bridge. Everything was pretty rigid and I was only getting higher frequency stuff. The low E was dead. I switched to a cable piezo between the bridge and beam and similar problems. Then I sandwiched the cable piezo between two pieces of leather and put that between the beam and bridge. Using an acoustic guitar preamp and EQ I can get rid of the highs and I get great signal from the E string.
Invent a new alternate universe. Then you'll have all the new physical laws to prove it. Now energy wont pass threw a gas or solid. Or one or the other. Perhaps in that alternate universe facebook, youtube and all the internet holds nothing but the facts. Maybe the person you've been arguing with is from an alternate universe. The first proof of alien life and they're dumber than we are. So much for the search for intelligent life. : )
Sounds like another Facebook troll rat piping in an opinion about something he or she knows nothing about. If Facebook was around 100+ years ago, do you think the Wright brothers would have listened to someone piping in that man can't fly? Or to Marconi, that you can't listen to someone's voice from across the Atlantic Ocean?
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Sure a piezo disc would work. I guess you just have to ask yourself, how does it sound?
A piezo will work anywhere..... including the kitchen sink! ;-)
Oooo! An argument on Facebook! Those are always the best kinds.
Of course it will work. May not work well depending on how you place it, but it will work.
On my daughter's electric upright bass I had to play around a lot to get a decent piezo sound. I tried one of the red dot stick on pickups on the bridge and it didn't work very well. The body is a long beam with a traditional height bridge. Everything was pretty rigid and I was only getting higher frequency stuff. The low E was dead. I switched to a cable piezo between the bridge and beam and similar problems. Then I sandwiched the cable piezo between two pieces of leather and put that between the beam and bridge. Using an acoustic guitar preamp and EQ I can get rid of the highs and I get great signal from the E string.
Invent a new alternate universe. Then you'll have all the new physical laws to prove it. Now energy wont pass threw a gas or solid. Or one or the other. Perhaps in that alternate universe facebook, youtube and all the internet holds nothing but the facts. Maybe the person you've been arguing with is from an alternate universe. The first proof of alien life and they're dumber than we are. So much for the search for intelligent life. : )
They must just defy the laws of physics, if the experts are so sure...
and plenty of rats too.... : )
It's easy to be an expert on facebook and youtube. All you need is an account.
Ps Piezo crystals are also how the fishman powerbridges work, how the Roland midi pickups work, how the Fernandez sustainiac works......
Sounds like another Facebook troll rat piping in an opinion about something he or she knows nothing about. If Facebook was around 100+ years ago, do you think the Wright brothers would have listened to someone piping in that man can't fly? Or to Marconi, that you can't listen to someone's voice from across the Atlantic Ocean?
Hmm, what's that smell? I think it's bullshit.