Need help wiring a piezo bridge with it's own, separate input.

[dstronge]

I am modifying an old jazzmaster clone and i replaced the bridge with a piezo. the bridge is on its own input - so all of the electronics will be separate from the magnetic pickups (which are passive anyway). my question is, can i simply hook the bridge up to a preamp by itself, without any other mag pickups? would i need a magnetic buffer? and would the volume and tone pots connected to the preamp affect the piezo?

thank you for any help with this.

 

[walterw]

a passive piezo should go to its own output (not "input", that doesn't really make sense), and should go to a preamp made for piezos first, before any knobs or anything, or it will sound terrible, weak and screechy with no low end.

you'd have a much more useful guitar with an onboard preamp for the piezo, like a fishman powerchip or baggs control-x.