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JOYO acoustic pre-amps / sounboard piezo fit

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WolfetoneWolfetone Frets: 1417
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I have been impressed by the quality and sound of the JOYO on-board eq preamps. I am thinking of fitting one to a guitar that I have.

I want to use a sound board contact piezo pickup rather than an under-saddle piezo. Does anyone know if any contact piezo would work with a JOYO preamp?

  
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 69426
    If an undersaddle transducer will work, so will a contact one. There's very little difference in the output usually - it constantly surprises me that this is so because obviously a contact pickup is just being vibrated by the top rather than compressed under the full string tension, but it really does seem to be.

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  • WolfetoneWolfetone Frets: 1417
    So, I have just bought the JOYO preamp, I can now get a little Piezo, attach some double sided sticky to it and, with the correct plug, plug it in?
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 69426
    Should do, yes.

    If you don't have one already, you can get little piezo transducers from Maplin or elsewhere online for very cheap - like this:


    Having once opened up a dead one of a much more expensive "pickup brand" transducer to see if it was fixable, I was a little surprised to discover it was no more than one of these encased in a bit of nicely-moulded black epoxy…

    You're probably best with more than one spread over a range of positions. Just wire them all in parallel and connect them to the same plug.

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  • WolfetoneWolfetone Frets: 1417
    edited May 2016
    Yay!.....and it's finished and sounds as good as anything I have ever heard! A big thumbs up for the JOYO acoustic preamp.

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