i can get tune-o-matic bridges pretty cheap on ebay and i have piezo rod pickups, is there a way to use the rod style pickup in one of the cheap chinese bridges?
stew mac and others want nearly $200 for their piezo bridges which seems crazy. anyone here build their own?
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ok this is gonna sound even dumber but my ibanez didnt have the tune-o-matic bridge on it. i dont know what i was thinking (told you its been a while since i played it!) however it has some similar. its like a t-o-m bridge except its one piece instead of having the seperate tail piece and the strings wrap around from the front.
i went ahead and experimented with it and found that while the pickup does register the vibrations while holding the piezo directly onto the bridge its no where near as loud as if the strings were putting pressure directly on the elements. basically i dont think the idea of taping the rod underneath the t-o-m bridge would work very well
i think im just gonna get one of the cheap TOM bridges and play around with it some more. im curious how to go about using one of the rod piezos cut into seperate pieces. i took one of the elements apart and it was just the little ceramic or whatever element wrapped in metal with heat shrink around it. seems you could solder wires to each indidual element and get it to work but im not sure
probably be easier just to stick a disc piezo inside the box and call it done
You may want to also experiment with strips of disk piezo in both series and parallel. Disk piezo has a very high resistance. This is part of why passive tone controls are difficult. Here you have the opportunity of putting 6 strips in parallel and dramatically dropping the resistance.
Example, 2 x 8 ohm speakers + 1 x 4 Ohm speaker:
Wired in Series: 20 Ohms
Wired in Parallel: 2 Ohms
Here is a page showing the calculation:
can i use 24 guage speaker wire to wire up piezo discs? did a search here and google but didnt get a definitive answer
I believe that is exactly what I am using all the time.
The thicker the wire, the harder it is going to be to fit in tight places ... but .... the lower the resistance.
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