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Piezo pickups

Piezo is a pickup thats essentially built into the bridge. It gives a much more acoustic tone and is more sensitive to your fingerstyle touch.
 
Piezos actually "read" the physical vibration of the string, as opposed to magnetic pickups, which transform the string vibration into electrical impulses.

That's how I understand it.
 
Hey, that's cool! My Bongo is so advanced it's actually LITERATE!

Reminds me of my wife. She's so impressed with me she even thinks my buttocks are intelligent. After all, she's always calling me a smarta$$.

Which is hysterical to listen to, since she's from Maine and on occasion displays the requisite accent. Been married to her for 20 years, and it still cracks me up.
 
A piezo PU is pressure sensitive, it is bearing the pressure of the strings at the bridge saddles and functions similar to a contact microphone.

If you've ever checked out the in-bridge PU in an acoustic guitar or bass, that is also a piezo PU. In the acoustic guitar version there is only one wire running from a long ribbon-like sensor to the EQ system. With systems like the Fishman Bridge or the EB Piezo bridge, each saddle has its own sensor. This allows better string-to-string balancing of the gain, because each sensor has it's own pathway to the EQ circuit.
 
BOOST said:
i believe you can get peizo's left handed on other brands (whispers)
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Yeah. They flip the negative when they burn the boards :-) I know a custom PU guy who will wind your PUs in the other direction at no extra charge, too.
 
adouglas said:
Hey, that's cool! My Bongo is so advanced it's actually LITERATE!

Reminds me of my wife. She's so impressed with me she even thinks my buttocks are intelligent. After all, she's always calling me a smarta$$.

Which is hysterical to listen to, since she's from Maine and on occasion displays the requisite accent. Been married to her for 20 years, and it still cracks me up.
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Lessee, in common time that would come out like:
| - - es | m' - - ah | a a a - | t' - uh - | - a ess | sss eh |

The reason winters are longer in Maine is to allow for a bit of conversation.
 
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Golem said:
Yeah. They flip the negative when they burn the boards :-) I know a custom PU guy who will wind your PUs in the other direction at no extra charge, too.
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But...but...what'll happen when the Earth's magnetic poles flip? It's due to happen any time now.

End of life as we know it, probably.

But then, it'll no doubt just get replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable.
 
Of course everything on a left handed bass is backwards, the tuning keys, the knobs, the winding of the pickups and the battery box are all totally different than the right hand model, and it’s why they charge more for the lefty’s.

I once put a set of right handed pickups in a lefty bass and there was an interruption of the time/space continuum.
 
Psycho Ward said:
I once put a set of right handed pickups in a lefty bass and there was an interruption of the time/space continuum.
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Hey I remember that... I mean... Well not really, cause technically it didn't happen.. Oh you know.
 
You guys just have no mercy on those for whom English is probably a second language.

Like a herd of buffalo, ain't ya?
 
But...but...what'll happen when the Earth's magnetic poles flip? It's due to happen any time now.

End of life as we know it, probably.

But then, it'll no doubt just get replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable.
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"Would you prepared if gravity reversed itself? The only thing I can't figure out is how to keep the change in my pockets. I've got it. Nudity."
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bovinehost said:
You guys just have no mercy on those for whom English is probably a second language.

Like a herd of buffalo, ain't ya?
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Rhine Bison

I don't really know.
It's poetry and I don't understand poetry.
 
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