Let’s talk about stomp boxes…
Made one with piezo, and was completely underwhelmed. Not ready to blame the piezo, but maybe. I think could have been other issues too. So,….
1. The box. Large, small, fat, thin, thick wood, thin wood? Have several to choose from, am considering a Macanudo approx. 8x8x2.5, or a Padron similar to this…
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I also have ¼” and 1/8” Swedish ply that I can make a top from. Also some printed circuit .062 fiberglass substrate.
2. Large or small diameter piezo, or a small speaker as pup? Maybe a metal sheet mounted over a magnetic pup?
3. Stompbox will be run thru a stand-alone preamp (7545R).
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I made a few a while back and got one that sounded pretty good. I used 3 piezo discs and a ukulele preamp (turn the bass all the way up and treble all the way down). It sounds okay, but I still tend to EQ out some of the midrange when I record it. I've thought about soldering a capacitor on the output jack to filter out some of the midrange permanently... but I've just never got around to doing it. The preamp makes a big difference when dealing with piezos.
I got a good result from a large wooden with a box 5 inch 8W speaker glued in one corner to the back and two piezo discs glued to the lid. Wiring them with a blend pot gave a good variation in sound. Using the two different types of microphone (speaker and piezo) made it sound like bongos if you tapped different places).
The two jack sockets were so I could piggyback the signal onto that from a guitar to one amp.
The two knobs were blend and volume.
I'm kinda going that way, I have a bunch of small speakers, from some small 1x2 ovals to a big 6 inch heavy sub woofer, and a couple tweeters and lots in between. I also picked up a vouple plastic cases, sort of like small briefcases/tool/pistol cases. They go 'thump' rather nicely.
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