Question for you guys that have piezo bridges

[DarkHorseJ27]

I'm interested by the idea of having a piezo bridge on the electric, not to emulate the sound of an acoustic, but to blend with the magnet pickups. Piezo's have a wider frequency range and a more three-dimensional sound, and I'm interested in using them to make the overall guitar sound more three dimensional. What's your guys' experience on blending piezo with magnetic pickups?

[cephus]

Sounds pretty snarly. Not particularly good.

[zantor9]

 

I'm interested by the idea of having a piezo bridge on the electric, not to emulate the sound of an acoustic, but to blend with the magnet pickups. Piezo's have a wider frequency range and a more three-dimensional sound, and I'm interested in using them to make the overall guitar sound more three dimensional. What's your guys' experience on blending piezo with magnetic pickups?

 

 

I have one on my Carvin it isn't too bad but i don't use it much. It sounds beautiful when i play through both my tube amp and my small amp for the acoustic sound. I just think that it takes too much time to turn the knob to switch from acoustic to electric to match a certain song. I LOVE the acoustic and electric at the same time though. It sounds great when they blend together. I don't think it's worth spending that much extra money for piezo pups, but it's a very cool feature.

[Cobalt Blue]

I love it. It has been central to the tone I have always been in search of. Ignore the naysayers here. Instead, think of great players like Albert Lee and John Petrucci whose use of piezo blend is central to their sound.

[tlbonehead]

 

I'm interested by the idea of having a piezo bridge on the electric, not to emulate the sound of an acoustic, but to blend with the magnet pickups. Piezo's have a wider frequency range and a more three-dimensional sound, and I'm interested in using them to make the overall guitar sound more three dimensional. What's your guys' experience on blending piezo with magnetic pickups?

I do about a dozen songs per gig using a piezo bridge along with the magnetic pickups.

 

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[tomcatluc]

I realy love the combination. For me it opened a new world of possibilties.

A few years ago I bought a Godin LGX which has a LR Baggs and two Seymour Duncans. The sound of the piezzo is OK. It is not a Taylor or a Martin, but it gets very near an acoustic guitar with a piezzo. There is no feed back and a little equelizer on the guitar gives you some volume and tone controles. On stage I prefer to use the separate output of the LR Baggs through a D.I. to the P.A. and a good monitor. In some songs I only use the piezzo, but in others I use both at the same time and I can assure you: people are amazed by the sound, produced by only one guitar. The more recent LGX-models even have a synth output: even more options.

 

I am a big fan of piezzo bridges, and although I have some other pretty good guitars, the LGX is my main guitar, because of its possibilities.

I have no experience with other piezzo equiped brands: but you're never wrong with Godin.(I even sold my Gibson for it: never regretted it, the LGX is at least equal in every department)

[cratz2]

Yeah, I currently have a Parkwood H2 (which is like a 335-sized jobbie) and previously had a Godin. It does add body... even if you aren't interested in acoustic tones specifically, blend the neck pickup with the piezo adds... well.... like I said, 'body'. Esp jazzy tones with the tone controls tamed down a bit.

 

Having said that, I could easily live without it.