ampetrosillo
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Hi, I have a bass guitar that has a magnetic pickup and an undersaddle piezo pickup. Unfortunately the bridge is no good and I'm about to have one made custom. The bass has a plastic top (!) and a mahogany body, it is on paper a semi acoustic but it's closer to being a solid body, considering that the top doesn't basically contribute to the tone.
Anyway, the bridge I'm going to have made is essentially a bone saddle into a block of rosewood screwed right into the mahogany body. I'd like to have the piezo functioning, although it won't be a tone I'm likely going to use alone (most probably mixed in with the magnetic pickup).
There are some ready-made undersaddle or body resonance piezos by some manufacturers (eg. Shadow, Fishman) but they cost quite a lot. I suspect that they simply package some run-of-the-mill piezos without any special design, so I could either buy an unbranded one for a fraction of the price or use some off-the-shelf parts not necessarily intended for a musical instrument pickup (there are a few that have a variety of purposes, while specifically declaring their parts to be suitable for instrument pickups).
Could you give me a hand?
Anyway, the bridge I'm going to have made is essentially a bone saddle into a block of rosewood screwed right into the mahogany body. I'd like to have the piezo functioning, although it won't be a tone I'm likely going to use alone (most probably mixed in with the magnetic pickup).
There are some ready-made undersaddle or body resonance piezos by some manufacturers (eg. Shadow, Fishman) but they cost quite a lot. I suspect that they simply package some run-of-the-mill piezos without any special design, so I could either buy an unbranded one for a fraction of the price or use some off-the-shelf parts not necessarily intended for a musical instrument pickup (there are a few that have a variety of purposes, while specifically declaring their parts to be suitable for instrument pickups).
Could you give me a hand?