Piezo on Majesty doesn't match JP6 - help?

[Acooljt]

Hello. So I've had a JP6 for quite a while, almost 10 years. I bought a Majesty 7 earlier this year, which I love, but the piezo doesn't sound nearly as good, with all settings the same. I play into a Mogami stereo cable to a splitter box with my piezo signal going to a TC Bodyrez pedal and then to my Roland AC-90. The Majesty needs a boost in the highs and lows to be quite honest, but I've already got both screws maxed on the back. My JP6 sounds great, basically exactly like a mic'd acoustic. The Majesty has been falling flat though in the piezo department. Help? Thoughts? I doubt EB would have devolved in the past 10 years so I'm sure there's a way to get a better sound but I'm at a loss. The only other option I can think of though is to buy a dedicated EQ pedal just for this guitar to boost the frequencies I need. That seems kinda silly though both from a money standpoint and that an almost $3k guitar shouldn't need help.

 

[DrKev]

I assume you have adjusted the piezo tone controls?

Remember that "better" is entirely subjective. I'm not saying that what you think is better is wrong (it's not wrong, of course) but the issue here is what Petrucci wants on the guitar, because that's what gets made in the factory for everyone. At one point if JP preferred 10 gauge strings, the JP production in the factory switched too! I don't know if the Majesty and the other JPs have different piezos or different circuits, but if JP decided he wanted a particular sound on the Majesty peizo, that's what gets made until he changes his mind.

Can anyone enlighten us re: piezo circuits?

 

[JamieCrain]

Are you in stereo mode? If not, that will mix the mags and piezos through both output cables, watering down the acoustic sound.

 

[PeteDuBaldo]

Can you adjust the EQ on your amp to work for the Majesty, then back off the EQ on your JP6 until they match? That would spare you the addition o another device.

 

[Acooljt]

Sorry for the late reply, I thought I'd get an email when someone had replied. Anyway, yes, I have played with the piezo tone controls and the guitar is in stereo mode.

I might have to try what Pete said. This is all just really frustrating.

 

[JamieCrain]

Maybe you've got a faulty pre-amp. My Majesty has the opposite problem to yours. It's louder and clearer than my other guitars with piezo, so much so I have to roll back the volume about 30% to get the volume balanced. And that's after I've tweaked the trim pots on the back of the Majesty.

 

[Big Poppa]

I ve been ignoring this......it is a different guitar....it is not supposed to sound the same

 

[Guitarshreda]

Hello. So I've had a JP6 for quite a while, almost 10 years. I bought a Majesty 7 earlier this year, which I love, but the piezo doesn't sound nearly as good, with all settings the same. I play into a Mogami stereo cable to a splitter box with my piezo signal going to a TC Bodyrez pedal and then to my Roland AC-90. The Majesty needs a boost in the highs and lows to be quite honest, but I've already got both screws maxed on the back. My JP6 sounds great, basically exactly like a mic'd acoustic. The Majesty has been falling flat though in the piezo department. Help? Thoughts? I doubt EB would have devolved in the past 10 years so I'm sure there's a way to get a better sound but I'm at a loss. The only other option I can think of though is to buy a dedicated EQ pedal just for this guitar to boost the frequencies I need. That seems kinda silly though both from a money standpoint and that an almost $3k guitar shouldn't need help.

The JP6 is basswood with a maple neck/rosewood fretboard. The Majesty is a neck through mahogany body with basswood wings, a maple cap and ebony fretboard. PLUS your majesty is a 7 string, more wood/mass to the instrument. You're dealing with two completely different beasts. I'd be more upset if they sounded the same!