beej
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I Piezo'ed my Morse!
So after borrowing Keith/DaveB's piezo Axis after the open house, I became totally hooked on the piezo (much to my surprise). Many weeks later, I've finally finished adding a piezo to my '91 Morse (the one with the "Tommy Alderson neck profile"). Man does it sound SWEET!
I dropped in a Graph Tech Ghost tuneomatic piezo bridge and Ghost preamp (many thanks to Dan Desy for encouraging me to go with the Graph Tech system - I looked at a few and found this to have the best reviews). I also routed the back to put in a battery box (StewMac) for convenient battery changes.
Control details:
- Volume knob is now push/pull for coil splitting of the Humbuckers
- Dual concentric pot for mag tone (bottom knob) and piezo volume (top knob)
- SPDT toggle switch for mag / mag + piezo / piezo output
- Stereo output jack- works with either mono or stereo cables (to split mag/piezo output)
There were lots of small finicky details (e.g. the concentric pots were 500k so needed to solder a resistor in parallel to lower them to 250k) to get it working right, but all in all a fun project. Roughly US$300 in parts.
Lastly, I'd just like to say the folks at Graph Tech were AWESOME! I originally ordered the wrong bridge - they were super friendly when I needed to get the correct one and actually overnighted it to me. They're totally accessible and friendly (Lea at R&D was available for a million questions and really helpful). And the bridge sounds absolutely phenomenal- I am so happy with the sound of this system!
Some assorted pics:
Off to play some more ... !
J.
So after borrowing Keith/DaveB's piezo Axis after the open house, I became totally hooked on the piezo (much to my surprise). Many weeks later, I've finally finished adding a piezo to my '91 Morse (the one with the "Tommy Alderson neck profile"). Man does it sound SWEET!
I dropped in a Graph Tech Ghost tuneomatic piezo bridge and Ghost preamp (many thanks to Dan Desy for encouraging me to go with the Graph Tech system - I looked at a few and found this to have the best reviews). I also routed the back to put in a battery box (StewMac) for convenient battery changes.
Control details:
- Volume knob is now push/pull for coil splitting of the Humbuckers
- Dual concentric pot for mag tone (bottom knob) and piezo volume (top knob)
- SPDT toggle switch for mag / mag + piezo / piezo output
- Stereo output jack- works with either mono or stereo cables (to split mag/piezo output)
There were lots of small finicky details (e.g. the concentric pots were 500k so needed to solder a resistor in parallel to lower them to 250k) to get it working right, but all in all a fun project. Roughly US$300 in parts.
Lastly, I'd just like to say the folks at Graph Tech were AWESOME! I originally ordered the wrong bridge - they were super friendly when I needed to get the correct one and actually overnighted it to me. They're totally accessible and friendly (Lea at R&D was available for a million questions and really helpful). And the bridge sounds absolutely phenomenal- I am so happy with the sound of this system!
Some assorted pics:
Off to play some more ... !
J.
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But I probably would have taken it off as a precaution anyway.
