electric guitars with piezo pickups

Bob411

Bob411

thrumming with potential
Asking about acoustic electrics worked out so good for me, AOK Thought I'd give this a shot.

Son is loving the Takamine. Looks like it's going to stay. Not only was it a great deal, but the odds that you can buy an acoustic sight unseen, and really gel with it boggles the mind.

Kind of wanting to work backwards now. What got the acoustic electric search started in the first place was a great deal on a Tech 21 Bronzewood 60. I only bought that cuz, 1) it was a Tech 21, 2) sels for $620 new, bought used for $59+shipping $20+ tax 3) it's kind of a mini PA. Has microphone chanel, knew I could run my Bass Driver through that for guitar. What I didn't expect was how much I would love electric guitar straight in to this amp. According to the Internet, I'm not suposed to like electric guitar through an accoustic amp. Now I'm curios about electric guitars with piezo bridges.


So, what models can you think of that have piezo? Top of my gas list right now is the Hamer Duo Tone. I know Ibanez made some, but really prefer hard tail bridges. Parker, just not my cup of tea. Carvin made some, can anybody recomend specific models? What else am I missing?
 
So NGD for Bob. If you haven't already guessed, piezo pickup on an electric guitar, + it's Bob, so cheap = Peavey Genereation EXP with ACM.

Used from GC of course, and stupid cheap. Just in awe right now of the different sounds you get out of this swithing from one pup to another, and with the piezo. It has two issues. One of the wires came off the battery conector, so they just stuck the wire in between the battery, and the connector. Guess it works.
The output jack is loose. Don't mean I need to tighten the nut, when you plug in a cord, it doesn't grip it good, so it keeps sounding like you are pluging in, have to stay peferctly still. The jack is stereo so you can send the piezo to an accoustic amp, and the regular pups to a regular amp. Don't have any TRS plugs to try if those hold better.

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Bob,

I bought one of those used to give to a student and found an interesting problem with the guitar. It won't intonate. See how far back some of the saddles are? You might not have enough travel on them and the guitar may always be out of tune. When I called Peavey, they said there was little they could do about it. Frustrating, but they were super nice about it.

Anyway, check the intonation before you do anything else.
 
oh yeah, right

or is the bridge also string-thru-able?
my Peavey bass can be strung thru the body or the bridge...
you'd still have holes, mind ya
 
gotcha.
just wondered, since my bass works both ways, thought maybe this would too.

still, moving the bridge would be a pain in the ass
 
Was half joking about moving nut. Still have some Buzz Feiten tuning system stickers. Bought a guitar on Craigslist, guy said he used to work for Washburn. Setups repairs, and doing the BF tuning. He talked about BF, most of what he said was way over my head. Funny part was, the incredible amount of time to do it right, and Washburn wanted him to spend enough time to put the sticker on, and that's about it.

Not being able to intonate is not a deal breaker.

Made up a cord yesterday to split, send piezo to tech 21 amp, and normal pups to normal amps.
 
I have the solution that nobody else thought of for the intonation.


Take that last saddle off (or at least remove the intonation screw and spring).

Sand the tail end of the saddle (it's graphite, it will sand off fairly easily). The piezo element is up in the nose of the saddle, by the two intonation screws. If you take a few millimeters off the tail of the saddle, it should give it enough room to scootch back the bit you need to intonate.
 
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