Help needed (piezo electric content)

jony

jony

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I just noticed a 25% volume drop in my A string as compared to the rest.

The guitar in question is the Cort G250P

With the Fishman wilkinson bridge and Fishman powerchip.

Do any of you other piezo electric users ever experience this?

I suspect it could be a bad string... I guess it happens, but then this problem disappears once I go back to the magnetic pickups.

Anybody?
 
Re: Help needed (piezo electric content)

Yes, I've had exactly the same experience with the Fishman bridge on the A string. In principle, it should be the string about to break across the bridge (mine did very soon afterwards) or the string is not properly settled in the saddle, the latter sometimes being due to eccentric winding on the string around that point or the bridge saddle has taken a set and the windings on the string don't match the micro notches.
In all these cases, you get the impression that the battery in the piezo is about to fail, a kind of "turbo fret buzz", but only on one string.
Hope this helps.
Ooops, I forgot to say that I have also had a bad saddle with one of the wilkinson type bridges which gave a low volume symptom. These are relatively easy to replace, but Fishman told me that the tunamatic types are a pig and it's better to let them do it.
 
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Re: Help needed (piezo electric content)

I had a mis aligned piezo element in the low E of my tune-o-matic powerbridge. I just took the saddle off, realigned the piezo, assembled my axe, and was off and rockin'. :)
 
Re: Help needed (piezo electric content)

benjy, mine isnt the tune-o-matic, so it works a little differently.

I think the saddle is a defective one. Changed string and check wires beneath. Everything looks fine but sounds wrong.
 
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