Who uses peizo's with distoration? I am starting to think that peizos just don't like distoration at all. They sound really bad when I use any sort of dirty channel with them. If someone out there is using them with distortion, then I would love to shake their hand, they have tamed the best called the peizo,
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That might be my problem.....too much gain. Becuase in a clean channel it sounds fine, and in another channel that is a bit dirty, it sounds all right too. Maybe I need to set up some channels in my pedal to just play my peizo with. Back to the drawing board....thanks for all of the help...this really cleans things up a bit.
Wichita Sam said:
perspective, man, perspective....
sometimes bad is good is bad is good... etc, etc, etc...
But, it anyone thinks they can get a piezo to sound like/behave like a wound pickup, they are wrong... the two work on different basis, have different properties. If you want a CBG to sound like your fav. LP or Strat (puke, gag, man that hurt) or 335, then you need to drop dime for some high quality wound pups....
Now, as far as a piezo goes, you can get some amazingly good quality sound out of them if, ....
you place them right you mount them right, you condition their signal right, and you don't over drive them....
unless you really enjoy skuzzy, fuzzy, wonky noise from your CBG, go easy on the gain.....
sometimes bad is good is bad is good... etc, etc, etc...
But, it anyone thinks they can get a piezo to sound like/behave like a wound pickup, they are wrong... the two work on different basis, have different properties. If you want a CBG to sound like your fav. LP or Strat (puke, gag, man that hurt) or 335, then you need to drop dime for some high quality wound pups....
Now, as far as a piezo goes, you can get some amazingly good quality sound out of them if, ....
you place them right
you mount them right,
you condition their signal right,
and you don't over drive them....
unless you really enjoy skuzzy, fuzzy, wonky noise from your CBG, go easy on the gain.....
I just bought a little Behringer amp, really a practice amp, that "models" three different amplifiers. Basically, clean, hot, and hotter...
I ran my piezo-equipped resonator guitar through it and cranked everything up....Sounded great. Cranking up the gain on the "drive" control produced great-sounding and controllable distortion.
The piezo is silicone-seal mounted on this guitar.
I'm originally a bass player.
So, I play my CBGs thru a bass practice amp, 'cuz that's what I have.
I also have a BP50 Bass effects pedal that I play around with. I get mixed results depending on how the channel is set up.
The biggest problem, IMHO, is that the signal from the piezo is a different signal that what the effect ( or dirty channel ) is designed to work with.
What really helped me was using a Dan-Electro EQ pedal before the effect. I had one sitting here not using it and it works very well with the piezo.
Matt - of course YMMV ... someone will post to prove me wrong.
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Wichita Sam said:
sometimes bad is good is bad is good... etc, etc, etc...
But, it anyone thinks they can get a piezo to sound like/behave like a wound pickup, they are wrong... the two work on different basis, have different properties. If you want a CBG to sound like your fav. LP or Strat (puke, gag, man that hurt) or 335, then you need to drop dime for some high quality wound pups....
Now, as far as a piezo goes, you can get some amazingly good quality sound out of them if, ....
you place them right
you mount them right,
you condition their signal right,
and you don't over drive them....
unless you really enjoy skuzzy, fuzzy, wonky noise from your CBG, go easy on the gain.....
JMHO, (well not really that humble... ;-)
the best,
Wichita Sam
I ran my piezo-equipped resonator guitar through it and cranked everything up....Sounded great. Cranking up the gain on the "drive" control produced great-sounding and controllable distortion.
The piezo is silicone-seal mounted on this guitar.
So, I play my CBGs thru a bass practice amp, 'cuz that's what I have.
I also have a BP50 Bass effects pedal that I play around with. I get mixed results depending on how the channel is set up.
The biggest problem, IMHO, is that the signal from the piezo is a different signal that what the effect ( or dirty channel ) is designed to work with.
What really helped me was using a Dan-Electro EQ pedal before the effect. I had one sitting here not using it and it works very well with the piezo.
Matt - of course YMMV ... someone will post to prove me wrong.