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Permalink Reply by Oso Diablo on March 29, 2016 at 12:51pm

Awesome, thanks. Yeah, I own a Pignose travel guitar with an integrated amp...love that thing!

Maybe it's a good idea to create insulation between the piezo compartment and the amp/speaker compartment? Would foil accomplish this?

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Permalink Reply by JL on March 29, 2016 at 11:59pm

Elsewhere among these annuals of wisdom I recall some sage remarks about CBG with built-in amps having an awful time with feedback.  The reason Pignose and Goldfish guitars don't is that they are a solid body with mag pups.  No resonance chamber and no 'mic' effects.

With a CBG, even a mag pup could feedback on a built in amp because the resonance chamber and soundboard can respond to the amp speaker and shake the strings.

for a stomp-box you could get the same problem, the speaker resonating the interior to the lid where the pizeo is attached. 

BUT if you put the amp/speaker part in a soundproof partitioned off part of the box that doesn't touch the "stomp" surface you could be on to something.

something like a very tall box that has room to mount the speaker/amp in the side wall AND allow you to surround it with 3/4" plywood and lined with felt and not touch the lid you are stomping, perhaps a build-your-own box?

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