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Piezo location

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A quick & simple CBG TV / Ted TV vid on soldering hookup wires to a bare piezo disk.

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Multiple Piezo Installation

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piezo between box and neck?

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Piezos...extreme frustration

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Which kind of piezo to choose?

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My piezo isolation seems to be causing the treble response to be antenuated (less than before)

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Sources for PVDF sensor cable

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piezo on concrete block guitar

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