![]() The piezos I installed in my Epiphones were about equal loudness with the PAF style humbuckers. The output of the piezos wired directly to the output jack is actually astonishingly high, the piezo is quite a bit louder than the single coil pickups. I do that because, in general, the 250k control pots are too low of resistance for the high impedance piezos, and they will decrease the output voltage of the piezo if they're in parallel with it. ![]() The way I've wired them all is with a push pull pot that when pulled up, sends the piezo directly to the output of the guitar. That's a non reversible mod, but it will never be seen so long as the Strat having of a pick guard. Installation of this piezo was the only one that required me to actually modify a guitar, I filed a channel the depth of the hookup wire from the screw hole in the pick guard, as seen in the pic below. I had QC issues with the $40 piezos mentioned on the Epi Talk, and they came from China with no instructions, nor anything extra, but these Brenner piezos look compromise free, with 1mm mono plugs for on board pre-amps, install instructions and some swag. ![]() For Strats and Teles, there's another brand called Brenner, whose Strat and Tele piezos are $65, and that's more than $40, but their quality also seems to be a lot higher. Those ones only cost $40, and are a really killer deal. I wrote about the Gibson Tune-o-Matic solution here, but that's less applicable to Strat players. Well I was cruising eBay, and I found some cheap piezo offerings for Teles, Strats and Gibson-style Tune-o-Matics, all for a rather low price, none requiring a pre-amp, and all being somewhat easy to install. I've been interested in piezo bridges for a while, because I play a lot of classic and 90's rock, Beatles, Eagles, Pearl Jam, Oasis, and all these bands have acoustic songs on their albums among hard rockers, so being able to quickly get a passable acoustic tone on the fly is very convenient, a game changer, really.ĭespite the interest, I didn't look to hard for three reasons 1) I thought you needed pre-amp in the guitar, 2) what few choices existed on the market were expensive, 3) installation looked tricky.
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