It's cheap and so easy to do, but adds so much value. I ended up putting a piezo in all my guitars. Each saddle has a piezo built in to provide a responsive and more articulate signal. It's composed of two choices that can change your playing experience: (Graph Tech Ghost Saddles) To begin, the pickups that help create an acoustic tone are located within the Graphtech Ghost Saddles. It's so cheap to do that and if you use the method I described above (and don't care about the visible wire), there is absolutely no risk in it, as all you need to do is replacing the jack. The Graph Tech Ghost System is easy and reliable to play with. I did that retrofitting and definitely did not regret it. I personally love to blend the piezo sound with my magnetic pickups. And if your guitar only got a neck humbucker, then it's definitely a no-brainer, as that 150$ piezo will add so much more tonal flexibility to the guitar than any effect I can think of. A piezo based tone match will still sound better, most of the time. If you got a neck single coil, you can get some good tone matches. Then I compared mine to a piezo equipped LP and noticed the dramatic difference. I heard this sound clip from a guy that had one of those piezo equipped parkers and couldn't believe how good it sounds. Piezos catch the acoustic sound of your electric guitar after all, so having a Piezo on hollowbody or semi-hollowbody guitars will yield totally different results than having a Piezo on an LP. Recommended!Ĭlick to expand.I don't think you can generalize that.
PIEZO BRIDGE FOR ELECTRIC GUITAR FULL
In the end, I use the Axe FX II anyway, so why bother adding tone or volume to the piezo output? Instead, I control EQ and volume directly in the presets and have the full freedom to mix piezo and magnetic signal in the presets.Īll you need then is an Y cable (TRS to double TS) and two volume blocks at the beginning of the grid to seperate the left (magnetic) and right (piezo) channel. connect the magnetic pickups output wire to the tip and both the piezo and magnetic ground to the sleeve of the stereo jack
pull the wires through the hole on the bridge pickup and then use the existing holes in the body to connect it to the stereo jack ring connector replace the 1/4" jack with a stereo jack wind a black rubber around the wires so that it looks better (since the guitar has a black body) filling a small hole into the ring of the bridge humbucker
I didn't even add tone and volume controls to it. My experience with adding a piezo bridge to my guitar was, that for my needs a passive piezo system was totally sufficient (well, it doesn't really sound like a real acoustic guitar, but it's still a nice effect, especially when used in a band mix).
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