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Fergus, check out my post about this here;
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/using-piezos-and-magnetic
and have a look at my 'Noise' video. I wired it off the Seymour Duncan diagram for 2 'buckers, 3 way switch, one tone, one vol, but just replaced one of the 'buckers with a pair of piezos wired in series. It works really well, so I say... go for it!
If you need any help, give me a shout :o)
Hi,
I have made 3 CBGs with normal guitar PUPs and piezo discs. For the first I used 2 mini humbuckers and piezos to give a 5 way option like a strat configuration with the piezos replacing the bridge pup. The last two used a 3 way and a single PUP plus the piezos. All have worked well with the discs giving a typical acoustic CBG sound, the electric PUP has a typical electric PUP sound (no surprise so far) but the mix of both sounds great reducing the electric sound and letting some of the acoustics to chime through a bit like adding a chorus effect - in all giving 3 different and distinctive sounds.
As the piezo discs cost a few pence only I tend to mix 2 or three together of different sizes as I read somewhere they give different frequency responses (not sure if this in fact makes much difference) and also I can then glue them around the bridge to pick up more sound. Also as I have found the piezo discs easily ping off the soldering if the wires are tugged I always glue the wires down to the top of the disc before handling them and once in a final position add an extra blob of glue on the wires near to the disc.
For wiring diagrams I have always found the ones on the seymour duncan website http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/
to be the easiest to follow. You may already know to use a crocodile clip as a heatsink to protect the capacitors when you solder to stop the heat from frying it (as I've done previously)
Good luck,
and if I can help just post a message.
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