Piezo spike suppression with leds

[ehdwuld]

Ok so this may belong in the pickup lounge
but here is the question

Back some time ago. Joe gore had an article About spike suppression in a guitar cable using two polarity opposed red LEDs
Mounted in a guitar cable
between the signal and ground

​​​​​​I can't find the article
But I was thinking this could do some of the compression on my piezo bridge that seems to be a bit spikey

Does anyone remember this
Does anyone have any thoughts on this

It's the Kiash piezo bridge from Amazon
It's about $25

 

[Mincer]

Id be interested to read it if you find the article. I have an RMC piezo system in a Brian Moore guitar, and it is super spikey. I've always had to use compression to make it usable.

 

[ehdwuld]

Dang Mincer you ARE a vampire
get some sleep

 

[Chistopher]

I use that physically on the inputs to my interfaces. If you install it correctly (assuming you put it on a cable) you won't be able to A/B it with a stock cable run into an amplifier. The LED's serve to clip the signal transients to levels that won't mess with digital interfaces.

 

[ehdwuld]

I was planning to mount them on the volume pot ot output jack

 

[Securb]

Are your piezos passive or active?

 

[ehdwuld]

Passive TOM style bridge on my Ehdwuld guitars

 

[Mincer]

The ones I use are active, so this might not work.

 

[Chistopher]

The ones I use are active, so this might not work.

It should still work as clipping is a function of amplitude. It will work with any instrument level signal

 

[idsnowdog]

How are these LEDS wired in a circuit? Do they just get soldered between the hot and ground wires?