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What you are missing is per string volume adjustability - a future unavailable in any other piezo pickup design. Now, if you don't need or want such a feature, then you are not missing anything compared to any common-for-all-strings pick up design. Qualifier here - most magnetic pick ups do have...

This Docking Station inherently does not reduce the gain per se, but just like any preamp, it has an output voltage swing limit of around 0.7V (I've measured with 1 kHz sinewave as an input) before it starts distorting the sound (clipping the waveform). So when the button is pulled out, it works...

Just stumbled upon this thread, and while old, I have an answer to the question posted. I've actually measured input impedance of the new device I just bought, using a signal generator and a scope. It happen to be 743 kOhm. Might be high enough to bugger a piezo pickup, but far cry from often...

For those needing new Stagg preamp, EMD Music is their official distributor; the preamp is ~$40 from them.

DoubleMIDI, a bit of misunderstanding - I did not mean or suggest to connect piezos (solder piezo wires ends) directly in parallel and THEN connect common junction to a single FET input - while this will produce sound, it's not a good idea. I said that the stock preamp has two input channels in...

The stock body supports are so flexible and wobbly, I found them practically useless to hold the instrument in the same position relative to your body as you play. I've replaced the long (right) body support with adjustable rigid link to a wooden pad resting against belly as you play. I play...

Yes, those are LaBella 7710N. In my experience - horrible on Stagg EUB and quite mediocre on MK EUB (I got Jazz model), but evidently these are very good on some basses - it's well known Ron Carter uses them. I'm not sure what part of the string (wrapping itself, core, anything in between, or...

Could be too late answer, but I haven't visited this forum for a while and just stumbled upon this tread. When I tried to lower action on my Stagg, E and A started buzzing first, and then - D (in lower, e.g. around half, 1st or 2nd positions). The fact that it started with E which vibrates side...

Tried black LaBella 7710's on my MK Jazz model. I wanted to like them, they look cool, but one is ultimately after the sound, not look. Well, I asked Mirko to install Spirocores when he built mine (instead of default D'Addarios) and I liked the sound, but it was not as close to an AUB as I was...

I had something similar with my Stagg - turned out just a bad D string. The main problem was it was buzzing when stopped at some locations on a fingerboard rather than being quiet(er) plucked empty than, say, A or G, but uneven volume was an issue too, and both were fixed by replacing the...

Remove and inspect your output jack. If you look at the schematic of the preamp, contacts of 1/4" oupur jack and contacts of 3mm headphones jack that connect battery to the circuit when either one is plugged in are both in parallel, so electrically there is no difference - either jack must keep...

I bought their brand new preamp from EMD Music Inc (La Vergne, TN) as a spare part - was $46.10 (2022 price). In case you'll ever need to tinker with it, I've traced the schematic of it - attached.

That's because the top deck (body) acoustically resonates differently [than the bridge] as it emits the sound through f-holes. The bridge just passes vibration from strings to the deck, it itself does not create any sound, e.g. unlike the body (front and back deck), it does not move air. Thus...