So I'm still totally in love with my LP. All my other guitars have the strings rusting off... I never pick up anything else. And if I want to play acoustic, I don't play my acoustics, I just unplug my LP and strum hard :guitaristgif:
Obviously that's not satisfactory so I'll have to tinker! :evil4: I want some nice acoustic sounds from this guitar... then it will be the ULTIMATE.
And so I'm thinking about piezo bridges. It's a TOM, obviously... how do I get the wires from the bridge to the control cavity? Am I going to have to pull a stud and drill a hole? :dontknow:
Which one do I want? I believe the choices are Fishman, LR Baggs, and Graphtec Ghost. Anyone know one from the other? :help:
How do I control it? I think this is the most difficult decision. I have standard LP controls and I don't want to make any permanent modifications (yet). I'm happy to switch to a master tone knob, freeing up one tone knob to control the piezo bridge. So what do I do with this knob? Well it could be a blend knob, mixing the piezo and magnetic pups together and making the control scheme VVBT; or it could be a volume knob for the piezo making the controls VVVT. If I do VVVT I will probably make it a push/pull (NOT push/push, those things feel too loose for my taste) pot so I can switch on/off the piezo bridge. What would be even better is a pot that clicks off when you turn it to zero, but I haven't been able to find those.
Obviously that's not satisfactory so I'll have to tinker! :evil4: I want some nice acoustic sounds from this guitar... then it will be the ULTIMATE.
And so I'm thinking about piezo bridges. It's a TOM, obviously... how do I get the wires from the bridge to the control cavity? Am I going to have to pull a stud and drill a hole? :dontknow:
Which one do I want? I believe the choices are Fishman, LR Baggs, and Graphtec Ghost. Anyone know one from the other? :help:
How do I control it? I think this is the most difficult decision. I have standard LP controls and I don't want to make any permanent modifications (yet). I'm happy to switch to a master tone knob, freeing up one tone knob to control the piezo bridge. So what do I do with this knob? Well it could be a blend knob, mixing the piezo and magnetic pups together and making the control scheme VVBT; or it could be a volume knob for the piezo making the controls VVVT. If I do VVVT I will probably make it a push/pull (NOT push/push, those things feel too loose for my taste) pot so I can switch on/off the piezo bridge. What would be even better is a pot that clicks off when you turn it to zero, but I haven't been able to find those.