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Comment by Paul Craig on July 15, 2016 at 4:16pm

I have a old mostly hollow body guitar with 2 mini-humbuckers and 2 piezos. I wired them separate from each other and installed a stereo jack in my guitar. The cord has a stereo plug on one end and splits into 2 mono chords. I can choose to use either in one amp or play both through 2 amps at the same time.

Also have a slide guitar with a piezo and a full size humbucker wired to a 3-way switch that goes to one mono jack to one amp. You can use either piezo or pickup or both.

Both guitars work without preamps for the piezos, but the electronics could use some tweaking for better sound.

Comment by David L. on July 8, 2016 at 1:46pm

This should give you an idea of piezo/magnetic/both pickups, with and without a preamp (both piezo and magnetic pup signals are sent through the same preamp).
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/comparing-cbg-pickups

Comment by Rick Alexander on July 8, 2016 at 12:24pm

Yeah, try the A,D, and G strings out of the same set. I use the cheapest light or ultra light set I can find. 

Comment by Charly Lukhardtt on July 8, 2016 at 11:54am

If you remember I lowered my action to a  constance 1/8" distance off of the fretboard.  I restrung my CBG with a Low G- Middle D - High G set from Gitty and the sound changed for the worst. I'm now trying to figure out with all the confusing info what are the best strings for me. I'm playing a acoustic/electric with a piezo. The Gitty strings I purchased and used to restring my CBG feel 'clunky' now when I play slide. I'm trying to determine if it's the new string to fretboard distance or if the change in strings has changed the sound and feel of my CBG. I'm therefore trying to once again restring to see if that improves the sound and feel.  

Comment by Charly Lukhardtt on July 8, 2016 at 11:44am

Thanks Rick!  I'll check out some of those vids.  But have you ever heard of anyone adding a Mumbucker type pickup to a CBG with an existing piezo, if that is possible.

Comment by Rick Alexander on July 8, 2016 at 11:42am

Hey Charly, I haven't tried that, but I'm surprised no one has chimed in that has.

Comment by Charly Lukhardtt on July 8, 2016 at 11:07am

Thanks Rick!  I'll check out some of those vids.  But have you ever heard of anyone adding a Mumbucker type pickup to a CBG with an existing piezo, if that is possible.

Comment by Rick Alexander on July 7, 2016 at 9:47am

Hey Charly, here's my take on the subject. I use acoustic/bronze strings with piezos, and steel with magnetic pickups. I like both, and they are different sounding and playing. If you want to see some good examples of mag pickups, go to CB Gitty's site, he has demo videos for a few of the pickups they sell.