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OK, as Don suggested, I am going to first try using two piezos instead of one. What are the pros and cons of wiring the two in series vs. parallel? Just by looking at the diagrams, I would think that parallel would be hotter, but series would take the edge off a little bit. Then again, all of my prior experience has been with one so it's just a guess.
I built a new bridge with two piezos as Don suggested, wired in series, and everything worked fine. I glued them into the wood bridge with c/a, used some thin foam the keep them good and snug inside, and sealed it up with another piece of thin wood. I tried both series and parallel, and to me series sounded better. I can also get more volume before feedback than with one piezo.
I'll try to get some pics up later. Thanks to everyone for the input.
I built a new bridge with two piezos as Don suggested, wired in series, and everything worked fine. I glued them into the wood bridge with c/a, used some thin foam the keep them good and snug inside, and sealed it up with another piece of thin wood. I tried both series and parallel, and to me series sounded better. I can also get more volume before feedback than with one piezo.
I'll try to get some pics up later. Thanks to everyone for the input.
I read this post while building my first six-stringer (customer request). Dual piezos, another first, sounded like a safe bet. They are 20mm Gitty's between the lid and neck, evenly spaced under the strings. I like to button 'em and be done, so I wired in a switch for series-parallel:
I intended it to be a set it and forget it switch so it is flush with box side under the jack. A pocketknife switches it.
At home with my Noisy Cricket, with 100K pulldown resistor on the input, parallel sounded best - smooth and natural. At the guitar store, through a Fishman amp, parallel made the high E string considerably louder that the rest. Flipped to Series and everything evened out and sounded great. It was my first attempt at recoding a video, and the card filled up just as we were getting to the electric, so I don't have a recording of the difference.
http://www.huntzmeyer.com/gallery.html
For a stage CBG, a DPDT On-On toggle might allow for different effect, but if you run dual piezos the switch makes life easy.
Thanks,
Huntz
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