Wanna go for the following: rod piezo&single coil pick-up (which?).3way switch. Do I need a preamp? If so how can I put it outside the cbg? Which wiring? Help please before I start to build my first CBG.
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Hi Honsik,
You mount the pickup in the box lid suspended on 2 screws with which you can increase or decrease the pickup to the height required. There is a previous discussion to show better what I mean. http://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/how-to-place-humbucker?x...
Regards,
David
Hi Honsik,
You will get a sound without a preamp (some like the raw sound others prefer it preamped)- the preamp kits you get usually come with a piezo rod which plugs via a 2.5mm jack into the preamp and the preamp has the output jack either already attached or it attaches via a push and click locking connector. To use it externally you just need a 1/4 inch to 2.5mm adapter plug and an extra guitar lead. So it would be guitar 1/4inch jack plug socket (as per normal). Normal guitar lead with one of these on the end
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-4-2-5mm-MONO-ADAPTOR-6-35mm-SOCKET-2-5m...
This goes into the preamp "piezo input" socket and the preamp will have another 1/4 inch output that you connect to your amp using the second normal guitar cable.
To wire up the above rod piezo/magnetis with a 3 way look at some of these http://artecsound.com/wiring/wiring_book01.pdf You just substitute the two wires from the piezo for one of the magnetic pickups for example on the telecaster diagram on page 11.If you don't want volume/tone (tone passive pots don't work on piezos) you just wire staight to the jack socket and omit the pots.
The piezo rods have a + wire wrapped around is the silver braid screen which is also the - wire. To wire it with a magnetic pickup you just snip off the 2.5mm jack twist the braid for the - and carefully strip the inner + wire.
For a magnetic pickup the coil tappable ones from suntek are great value http://www.suntekstore.co.uk/product-15006824-Humbucker+Pickup+for+... or in dollars http://www.suntekstore.com/goods-15006824-Humbucker+Pickup+for+Tele...
Regards,
David
If I purchase http://www.suntekstore.co.uk/product-15006824-Humbucker+Pickup+for+... what distance do I have to go for? (from top of the pickup to the strings).
Use 2 disk piezos sandwiched between 2 pieces of wood and use this as the bridge, put a metal saddle for the strings on top. I don't use a pre amp with mine, but some tell me they work well with piezos. Sounds good this way with less feedback problems. Good luck. wire the 2 disks in parallel.