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Bierschinken

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Does anyone know the outputimpedance of the piezo?

The maximum be also nice to know.outputlevel would :eek:

And last one. :D Does anyone know the frequencyrange of the piezo pickup?
 

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Neat question. I believe the pickups themselves have a very high impedance (a few Megs), which is why it's best to run them through a preamp. Not sure what the specs of the EBMM piezo preamps are, but the output must be relatively low impedance, I'd guess about 1k or less. I think EMGs are around 10k output impedance; I'd assume they're slightly higher.

Frequency range? Wow, no idea. Pretty wide range for sure- piezo transducers are used to measure both high and low frequency vibrations in the real world so the guitar's range would be small comparatively.
 

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I thought about building a Splitter & Line Isolator Box myself, so it would be cool to fit the right impedance of the piezo.
Also the frequency is interesting because of the tranny needed for the galvanic isolation. I just don´t know how much "Fullrange" is... 20Hz - 20kHz?

Anyone of customer service who knows this?
 

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Other option is to call Piezo vendors and ask them. I think EBMM uses Fishman (though don't know what's in their preamp).
 
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