Some people talk about forking it so that the piezo goes to a PA instead of the guitar amp, but again, if all you want is some quick and dirty way to switch from Hey Hey My My to Needle and the Damage Done with the simple pull of a knob, it gets the job done in spades. More than anything else, the sound it puts out has a lot more treble than the PAF style humbuckers, and that's most of what the acoustic sound is anyway, brilliance on the treble side. A bunch of people on the net say, in general, bridge piezos aren't a convincing acoustic sound, but why set one's expectations so high? At the end of the day, it's a Les Paul with a piezo pickup and not an acoustic guitar.
It really only works (without a pre-amp) if wired directly out.Īll said and done, I think it's awesome for what it is. That's necessary because the impedance of piezo is very high, and even a 500k pot will load it way down. I hooked it up to a push pull pot that, when up, wires the piezo directly to the output jack, no volume or tone. They would be required if used with Gibson, though.
It also came with its own mounting posts, but it fit the existing Epiphone posts, so I didn't need them. The thing is also very solid, there's no evidence that it should cost $40, it could have cost $80 and I wouldn't have been mad. My thinking was that the little wire that leads into the bridge pickup's housing is discreet, and otherwise it looks the part, so if I don't like that sound, I don't have to use it, but it's there as an option. I just installed this piezo Tune-o-Matic in my Lee Malia sig LP, only $40, cheaper than most normal pickups.
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