![]() It’s theoretically possible to just mike the instrument on stage, but you run the risk of bleed and feedback, especially as part of an ensemble. Of course I always could just learn to play better with less finger movement and more precise fingering of chords and stuff! Either way, I’m really enjoying my kids’ new acoustic/electric guitar.In order to amplify your nylon-string acoustic guitar for live performance, you’ll probably want to invest in the best pickup for classical guitar. I can go back into the guitar and using a hot knife separate the piezo piece and reattach it, but I’m lazy. I don’t know if this could have been prevented, but I should have used double sided tape first, then gone for the more permanent hot glue after testing the positioning. One of the online articles talks about the string noise and how only attaching half of the piezo pickup to the bridge will reduce that. Either I didn’t play the guitar enough during my testing faze or the hot glue provided a stronger connection to the bridge. My earlier tests with the painter’s tape had not done the same thing. This is by no means the end of the world, but it surprised me. The string noise is very loud! Any slides or movement on the strings is amplified and a bit harsh. ![]() When I got to my small repertoire of blues licks I got my first negative. I started playing lots of different stuff on my new electric/acoustic guitar. I glued the piezo piece in place, let it dry, and plugged it in. But this is when I got a little overly confident. I had the place already located and I could reach it with my hand through the sound hole (just couldn’t reach the jack hole). Now it was time to affix the piezo pickup to the inside of the guitar. ![]() I think I will use an endpin jack for when I do this to my Ibanez AW-100 acoustic guitar.ġ1. I could’ve used an endpin jack to go where the strap button goes, but those are at least 4 times the price of the jack I used and this is all just experimentation on a guitar where failure is an option. The jack was now secure in the new hole I had drilled. I then slid the washer and nut down the chopstick on the outside (which cleared with no problems) to secure the jack in place. It worked even better than trying to slide the jack. Only my big plastic chopstick was a bit big for “sliding.” The jack actually grabbed on to the chopstick and I just pulled it to the hole. So following instructions from the internet, I used a chopstick through my drilled hole to easily slide the jack to the pre-drilled hole. Then I tried to put the jack in the hole, but my arm wouldn’t fit all the way into the smaller sound hole of the parlor guitar. First, I drilled a 3/8th inch hole in the side of the guitar for the jack. This is when I got a little overly excited and went straight for installation inside the guitar.ĩ. After it dried I tested the piezo pickup again and it still worked! And the “trebbly” echo sound was pretty much gone. It is this plastic stuff that you dip tool handles in and it coats it, which is what I did to the piezo part of the pickup.Ĩ. So, following suggestions from the web, I got some plastic dip tool handle gunk at my local hardware store. And the piezo pickup had a lot of treble and had some sort of “trebbly” echo. ![]() Well, I don’t know if it was a lot, but it was easy to get feedback and I figure that isn’t good. When testing the piezo pickup inside the guitar, I got a lot of feedback when it was amplified. Note: Getting the piezo pickup inside is easy when you use tape and tissue to pull the strings apart, but it does take a while to retighten and retune the guitar strings each time you try a different piezo pickup placement inside the guitar body.ħ. The painters masking tape worked well, came off easily, and didn’t seem to impact the piezo pickup. Sorry, no pictures of the inside of my guitar. My favorite was inside the guitar, under the bridge but not touching the strings or string pegs, and up a little bit so it is closer to the low E string. I tested different spots inside the guitar. Using some painters masking tape I tested the pickup in multiple spots on my guitar. Here’s what I did to actually get it in the guitar:Ħ. Yesterday I posted what I did to make my homemade, diy piezo pickup for an acoustic guitar. ![]()
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