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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on September 15, 2015 at 8:15pm

First of all, Thank you for your service.

Your CBG looks great. I've heard in the past that magnetic pups and piezo's didn't play well together without a onboard equalizer/preamp. How did you wire yours? Did you use a equalizer/preamp?

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Permalink Reply by Brian Smith on September 16, 2015 at 1:07am

Hi, Paul...I have to say, I owe all the wiring expertise to my buddy I was doing the build with. His will be done soon, but I was trailblazing for him so he wired mine first. The two pickups are wired into a 3-way switch so you can select either, or, or both. No preamp or anything fancy. It turned out like having a distortion effects box built in...couldn't be happier. No feedback from the piezo (it's on a bed of hot glue and covered with hot glue as well). I'll post a pic of the back of the plate to show the wiring.

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Permalink Reply by Brian Smith on September 16, 2015 at 11:55am

Here's a pic of the wiring on the back of the plate...

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• LicPlateWiring.JPG, 2.5 MB

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on September 16, 2015 at 7:25pm

Thanks for the pic. Rock on

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Permalink Reply by Brian Smith on September 22, 2015 at 3:34pm

<update> more playing with it and I found I had the pickups backwards...the magnetic pickup is the clean one and the piezo is the dirty, but it's only when running it thru a pedal with some gain added.  The piezo seems to have more volume and therefore picks up the gain more to turn it into the distortion you'd be looking for.  The mag pickup ends up with less volume running thru the same pedal and comes out clean. 

Running the guitar directly into an amp with no adds gives clean to both pickups.  Still, I'm extremely happy with how it sounds as well as how it plays.  Great add to my stable.  :-)

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Permalink Reply by Blues Frog on September 22, 2015 at 3:37pm

That's a nice git! Hows she sound?

Oh, I missed that entry. Apparently that's how.

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Permalink Reply by Bluesheart on October 3, 2015 at 8:30am

Nice job, looks really nice, esp. for a 1st!

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