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Comment by smilingdog1 on February 28, 2017 at 6:28pm

You're the mad scientist turlehead, your ideas look intriguing and definitely warrant exploration. 

Comment by turtlehead on February 28, 2017 at 3:53pm

No elephants were harmed in the making of these yet RTZ ;)

smilingdog - I might have to pick one of those up - seems like a steal.  These pickups are on the other end of the spectrum from a piezo impedance wise, so I've been looking at some microphone preamps lately too.  The main thing I was going for here was to be able to adjust the magnets depending on whether the strings were wound or plain and this has worked out pretty good. 

I also wired in a piezo to this circuit with a volume knob of it's own.  Even with the impedance mismatch, it seems to work halfway decent to dial in a little piezo sound. 

Comment by RTZGUITARS on February 25, 2017 at 11:57am

yeah but who killed Topsy

Comment by smilingdog1 on February 24, 2017 at 6:22pm

What effects are you finding specifically? I use a 500K pot rather than a 250K with piezo and that had a significant improvement including a cap. What really boosted and cleaned up my signal and added an interesting side effect by reducing feedback was a Behringer preamp Booster PB100 pedal. This turned my cheap CBG into a beast. There are other cheats for magnetic pole pickups to double there output but you'd definitely need to filter the impedance to match the output.

Comment by turtlehead on February 24, 2017 at 4:30pm

Thanks folks.  Yep Darryl, that's what I was shooting for with this one - trying to make something that would work with any combination of wound and unwound strings.

Andy - I'm going to work up a diagram and another video showing the process from start to finish because I'm with you that these are an improvement over piezos and a fantastic DIY CBG project. 

Comment by darryl kernaghan on February 23, 2017 at 8:11pm

Good idea Turtlehead, gives a work around for the issues Rogorsky had re the b string on a sixer, plus subtle tone changes i suspect

Comment by Gary W aka Rev. Bluejeans on February 23, 2017 at 6:38pm

turtlehead - awesome job!  And what a great demo video - - well done!

Comment by Andy Busch on February 23, 2017 at 5:36am

Wow!  Um...do you have a plan or a schematic or something like that, something that can walk a guy like me--a guy NOT technically savvy or inclined--through the process successfully?  Heck, I don't even know what a "wall wart" is, much less how to wire one up!  I'm asking because all of this looks and sounds better than a piezo. 

Comment by Bluesheart on February 23, 2017 at 1:51am

Very cool, sounds great too!

Comment by Uncle John on February 22, 2017 at 3:08pm

Not so simple then. It does sound good.

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