Install piezo prs

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You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Retro fitting piezo into PRS. Thread starter waylander69 Start date Dec 18, Hi Looking for a bit of feedback on a mad thought I have had, I like prs guitars, for the money the SE versions have a high build quality and if you pick one up second hand you can score a bargain.

So since I have a collection of PRS, one american c24, one se c24, one singlecut se and a tremonti se. Looking for recommendations for type of piezo , for ease of fit and sound quality. Roland Experienced. My personal experience is limited to Graphtech and Fishman, where I prefer the Graphtech.

The simplest way is to buy a piezo fitted bridge which fits the PRS bridge post size and spacing. The harder part is fitting circuit board, battery and controls into the guitar. You need to decide what you want to do about controls: volume and switching.

My decision, which may not work for you, was not to have any piezo controls on the guitar, but to run a stereo cable from guitar to Axe-FX, and do the switching with midi. Zwiebelchen Fractal Fanatic.

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.

I didn't even add tone and volume controls to it. Instead, I control EQ and volume directly in the presets and have the full freedom to mix piezo and magnetic signal in the presets. All 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. No woodwork required. Easy solution.

Last edited: Dec 19, PM ShotGunDunn. He's a member here and has done several installs. Les Paul, Ibanez edge trem etc. There should even be some threads floating around about those.

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JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Installing a piezo in a solid-body guitar… that wasn't made to accommodate a piezo…? Messages 2, Any thoughts here? Likely adding a piezo to a solid-body electric with no existing cavity for it would be time consuming and costly, so the question is would it be worth it?

Would the piezo really put out a decent acoustic-like tone or would it fall flat because the guitar isn't a semi-hollow or hollow body?

Messages 1, I've got a Piezo in my strat clone. It's a piezo tremolo block Fishman Power Bridge. Sounds great, very acoustic like to my ears. I just remembered - I attended a Pat Dinizio house concert in and he had an off the rack Strat with a piezo installed.

It sounded great, and very acoustic. I'm on the fence about piezos. I've installed two into Teles under the bridge , and then routed under the pickguard for preamp and associated circuitry. Neither one sounded very good or acoustic-y, but I'm strongly considering installing a Graphtech Ghost system in a Strat I'm building.

I won't have to route that one since the swimming pool has already been cut out, and I think the piezo saddle will help significantly with the sound. Piezos really don't sound drastically different whether it's a full hollow body or a solid one But adding it to a solid body where the cavity would need to be created would likely add to that cost, so I'm intrigued to hear of some examples of piezos in solid body electrics that actually sound good.

I always liked the concept of running the mag and piezo pickups in parallel through separate pickups. Whiskeyrebel Silver Supporting Member. Messages 30, It all depends on the signal path. Even with a sufficient input impedance, the piezo signal alone doesn't sound like an acoustic guitar without some EQ. The exact EQ treatment is going to vary a lot depending on the bridge and the guitar it's attached to. A little high-threshold, high-ratio compression helps too.

It's a lot easier to dial in through a PA or at least a bass or KB amp that has tweeters, compared to running through an electric guitar amp. That's if you're trying to get a sound from the piezo by itself and have it sound like an unamplified acoustic guitar. If the magnetic pickups are running through a normal electric guitar amp and you just want the piezo signal through the PA to fill in the mix, it can sound good with less tweaking - as long as the very first thing connected to the piezo has 1 megohm input impedance bare minimum.

Whiskeyrebel said:. For added info, I do run the piezo through a small buffer I made. Nothing special, just a simple buffer that's about the size of 2 postage stamps that fits under the pickguard. Auriemma Member. Messages I had a Fishman piezos in a Parker I picked up. The original Fishman piezo saddles were crapping out, so I replaced them with 6 Fishman style Graphtech Ghosts.

Oddly 2 of the 6 came in bad. Graphtech sent me 3 more. After all that, It sounded OK, but underwelming.