My takeaway is that a piezo saddle or bridge makes much more sense than I realized. One surprising thing is that placing at the saddle doesn’t sacrifice the deep tone I wanted the way a bridge magnetic pickup does, since the piezo is not reacting to the strings like a magnetic pickup does. I had to experiment for an hour to figure that out, now I have to work out a way to mount it that way. I guess it’s the different vibrations between the different surfaces that greatly increases the vibration in the piezo and the effect is a really nice almost upright sound. The housing has four posts that form the clamp and what works for me is to place two posts against the bridge/saddle and two on the body. Mine is permanently glued into a metal housing that is meant to clamp onto the bridge of an upright. It will sound weak and tinny but you shift it a half inch over and it sounds worlds better. The variation in sound between one location and another is dramatic. What I have learned is that the placement of the piezo is crucial. The mudbucker pickup doesn’t capture that sound well so I got a piezo and a buffer/preamp designed for an upright. I have an old Japanese eb-2 clone and with tapewound strings it comes closer to an upright sound than I’d have predicted. If you are planning on installing a piezo bass bridge, you probably have questions about the electronics, some of which may specifically be around grounding.
But of course they used a proprietary “dovetail” wooden bridge along with specialized construction.Ĭould you get a sound like this on your fretless electric bass? You can – even on a plain solid-body – but it is suggested that in addition to the piezo bass bridge you use tapewound strings (although stainless steel flatwounds could be used), and learning basic upright playing techniques also helps out quite a bit. When attempting to get that sound out of an electric bass, yes it can be done, but it takes the right hardware to do it.īelow you will see a video of the Veillette Paris model bass, which does have a convincing upright bass sound. When you want that low, boomy-in-a-good-way sound, you need a big acoustic bass to do it with. The best way to answer that is to say first that nothing sounds like a real upright bass. Is the piezo pickup the “secret” to the upright bass sound? We also mentioned that we carry piezo bass bridges. Its a classical guitar pickup that brings true nylon-string sound without modification to the instrument. The versatile UP-2 passive piezo attaches safely to just about anything that vibrates.
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In a recent article we featured an Ibanez fretted/fretless hybrid where the fretless part of the bass has a piezo pickup. Portable bridge-mounted piezo for nylon-string guitar NG-1 is the perfect nylon string guitar pickup choice for guitarists who need a piezo pickup to transfer the natural sound of their instrument.
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