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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on August 28, 2013 at 3:31am

It'll work. You may want to reinforce the box if the top's not very thick. An old wooden crate works well for this, too.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Doug on August 28, 2013 at 7:55am

Thanks for the reply.  Where is the best place to put the pizzo, inside bottom of the box or the underside of the top?

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on August 28, 2013 at 7:59am

Underside of the top. Some people go crazy, and put piezos in several different places in the box...

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Permalink Reply by Paul Doug on August 28, 2013 at 9:14am

Thank you, sir.

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Permalink Reply by Bad Finger (Eric) on August 28, 2013 at 10:22am

I haven't built one, but I was advised to use the largest diameter piezo for better bass output. I've heard others using a speaker wired as a mic instead of piezo also.

Good luck and show us the result.

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on August 28, 2013 at 11:07am

If you put a input (thru) jack as well and add a volume control on the buzzer you can plug your guitar up to it for when there's only one amp ;)

I've done this on a few steels, so they cascade, effectively becoming a multi neck steel

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Permalink Reply by jawbone on August 28, 2013 at 11:35am

OK - I just want to get this right...cause this sounds like fun -
Build the stomp box with an input jack, and that runs thru to the output jack then a volume control on the piezo as that runs thru to the output? I've been wanting to build one of these and figured I'd need an ABY thingy but this is better.

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Permalink Reply by t-belly johnson on August 28, 2013 at 12:41pm

You can also use an old speaker! Just fix it to the lid,sounder facing the lid and add a jack plug. Plug it into an old amp and you have a real bassy foot drum.

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Permalink Reply by Donna on August 30, 2013 at 5:44pm

That was the first thing I built.    I put the piezo on the underside of the lid.   I play bass and had a spare bass amp so I put it thru there.    I also had a Behringer Preamp booster pedal.  It was thunderous.   my only issue was the box liked to travel across the floor so I cut a piece of rubber shelf liner stuff to put between the box and the floor so it wouldnt move.  When I was playing a duo thing with a guitar player and me on bass, the stomp box really filled it out.    good luck!

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