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| Author: | jimmysux [ Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Wiring question |
I am building another strat soon, I want to do a 3 rail pickup system with each pickup connected to a mini toggle which will coil tap the rails so I can have the best of both worlds, however, I also want to throw in a LR Baggs Piezo trem, how hard would it be to wire all of this in together? I can wire in the rails and coil tap them all to the mini-toggles, but I have never done a piezo before. Any suggestions or thoughts? |
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| Author: | John Coloccia [ Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wiring question |
jimmysux wrote: I am building another strat soon, I want to do a 3 rail pickup system with each pickup connected to a mini toggle which will coil tap the rails so I can have the best of both worlds, however, I also want to throw in a LR Baggs Piezo trem, how hard would it be to wire all of this in together? I can wire in the rails and coil tap them all to the mini-toggles, but I have never done a piezo before. Any suggestions or thoughts? I'm doing a Baggs piezo now. If you want a really nice system, get their Control-X. It's designed to basically drop into a Strat and give you all sorts of features. Generally, though, there's nothing about your wiring that will impact the Baggs pickup. Without the Control-X, it just goes to a blender pot, I believe. With the Control-X, it goes to their little circuit board. Whatever you do with the pickups because you send it through the Baggs system is pretty much wide open. |
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| Author: | jimmysux [ Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wiring question |
Exactly what I needed! Thank you! |
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| Author: | philosofriend [ Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wiring question |
Piezos and magnetics need to be pre-amped before you can casually mix them. You can get some results without a preamp but the controls will be more like wierd on/off tone switches. Their impedences are very different. |
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| Author: | VirgilGuitar [ Fri Feb 10, 2012 6:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wiring question |
Don't you need active pickups for this process? |
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| Author: | theguitarwhisperer [ Fri Feb 10, 2012 6:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wiring question |
VirgilGuitar wrote: Don't you need active pickups for this process? Nope. You can, but they are not necessary. |
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| Author: | John Coloccia [ Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wiring question |
FWIW, I just finished up the Baggs bridge with Control-X mixer. The whole setup is VERY sweet. I haven't tried it passive but I can tell you that with the Control-X it sounds killer. I played my prototype at a party just this past weekend, and it did quite a passible acoustic sound plugged directly into the PA, though the volume control was rather touchy. Plugged into a real amp, it all works just as you'd expect. It is an expensive system, though, and if you're not installing it in a Strat you will need to do some gyrations to get it to work. I should post some pictures at some point as to how I got it all to fit, but it's not rocket science. It just takes a bit of measuring and planning. |
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| Author: | jimmysux [ Sun Feb 12, 2012 1:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wiring question |
FWIW, I believe the x-control mentioned is a mixing pre-amp that just takes the space of one of the controls in the strat pickguard, if I am correct. |
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