can an active p/u be used as an ordinary passive p/u, friend of mine has brought round a yamaha bass, and i think the electronic's are u/s, so i was thinking just to use the p/u's as passive one's and remove the electronic's off the pot's etc, any th
Read more…just wondering if i use 2-single p/u's, one with north pole's to the string's and one with south pole's to the string's, placed as close to each other as possible, wired in series, would it be a humbucker, ?
Read more…How do I find out the right pots to buy to go with the second hand Humbuckers I have bought from Ebay? There are no markings on the pickups to say what the impedance is?
I would like to join the discussion on pots and piezos.
I've had a fair amount of wiring experience with humbuckers and single coils
and switching them.
Now my question is' which value of pot is better with a disc piezo?
...250K or 500k .....an
Read more…Hi everyone - I am trying to get a 4-string CBG ready to ship to Australia for a buyer and am having an issue with the piezo throwing back too much feedback. Funny/strange thing is that I have another piezo the same size installed in another cbg in t
Read more…http://www.liutaiomottola.com/PrevPubs/Piezo/CoaxTransducer.htm
Inexpensive piezo parts sources and more piezo information:
http://windworld.com/products-page/electronic-hardware/piezo-cable/
http://windworld.com/features/tools-resources/produc
Read more…This may have been posted before but just came across an interview with Jason Lollar. In the unlikely event you don't know who he is, he's the guy who wrote the book on pickup winding. It's a really interesting article and well worth a read, the part
Read more…Just seen these on Ebay and wondering if anyone has used anything like it. Think it would look nicer than some guitar preamp setups I've seen as its just got a volume and tone pot instead if those EQ looking setups I've seen. Also the size of the pic
Read more…Hi everyone, I'm thinking of putting a magnetic pup in my next build (all have been piezos, so far). I don't know anything about mag pups, and, as usual, I want to keep costs down. what should I look for as far as type (I know so little, I don't even
Read more…I sent this out as a message to everyone when I meant to start a discussion. Sorry about that. Just gonna paste it here.
So on the first guitar I built, I had a space between the neck and soundboard and I placed the piezo in there right under the bri
I found this tucked away with a google search
"The only way to get a passive tone control working with a piezo pickup is to have a resistor in series with the pickup before the signal reaches the tone control. The larger the resistor, the more effect
Hi,
I recently came across this on the www http://www.prodigy-pro.com/diy/index.php?topic=34505.0
basically the people here are saying that because the polarity maybe different on different discs when wired together they may cause signal cancellati
Read more…I am working on my latest mad-scientist creation - adding a P-Bass neck to a cheap violin body, and other crimes against man and nature.
I have an Artec 'soap bar' bass humbucker for this. It's a passive unit - to my mind, not wildly different in the
i have a cheap old bass guitar and was thinking of using the pickups on a cbg build but the pickups have gone microphonic. is there anything that can be done with them??? cheers :0)
Read more…I've seen this done on a few builds, and even did it myself once (though i can't quite remember why I thought it would be a good idea), but what are the benefits of wiring two piezos in series rather than having one single one? Does it increase (doub
Read more…Just got a real cool gold Bridge Humbucker and have been looking at wiring it up with volume and tone, have noticed the need for a capacitor, but any diagrams i look have do not have what size to use. I am sure someone here could HELP ME PLEASE..
Read more…Found this link buried in another group .... best I've seen for jacks & explanations . Link opens in new browser window .... http://gaussmarkov.net/wordpress/parts/connectors/14-phone-jacks-and-plugs/ edit ... take note of the last (bottom) illustr
Read more…I have a piezo from a smoke alarm and the wires were just attached by touching them to the piezo with some kind of plastic housing. I would like to solder them on like I have seen on others, will this work? I don't want to burn out my piezo. Has anyo
Read more…I would just like to day " Fagetaboutit '' with piezos !! Magnetic hand wound pickups ( sold by some of our members ) and single coil ( strat type ) and especially HUMBUCKERS will bring your guitar ALIVE !!! Peace / Arnie Rydberg
