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Why piezo on electric bass is so underrated?
- Thread starter gigetto
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Because no one knows how to pronounce it 
Rick turner makes a great piezo. I like his a lot, in fact.
Too bad Dean didn't use their piezo and the Aphex System in some of their solid-body basses as they did in the older Exotica acoustic basses...even without blending it with a magnetic pickup, so very versatile.
And too bad Aphex then got bought out and threw away that preamp design.
Yes, one has to wonder why.And too bad Aphex then got bought out and threw away that preamp design.
I've heard it pronounced pie-zo.
Pumpkin pie-zo, apple pie-zo, cherry pie-zo.
Pumpkin pie-zo, apple pie-zo, cherry pie-zo.
BassHappy
Supporting Member
I love 'em and prefer 'em. There is a closeness and an immediacy for me that I don't experience with most magnetic pickups. Yes, Rick Turner is quite the piezo guru and the Fishman that Rob Allen typically uses in his "Mouse" short scales is warm, deep and rich.
Plus nothing looks better than the purity of a bass with no annoying pickups in sight. I love the clean look:
Here are a few of mine:
Plus nothing looks better than the purity of a bass with no annoying pickups in sight. I love the clean look:
Here are a few of mine:
Hell, where I come from, me and my kin say pie-zo.
I mean, this ain't no Italy or France, this is the good old USA, boy!
ing all over myself here!
I had a few basses with Piezo. Carvin had an option for those.
on fretless basses it was amazing but on fretted it was more of a spices.
only piezo on a fretted bass sounded a little hollow to me, it needed a totally different EQ to sound nice. Again to me
on fretless basses it was amazing but on fretted it was more of a spices.
only piezo on a fretted bass sounded a little hollow to me, it needed a totally different EQ to sound nice. Again to me
Yeah, definitely need different EQ to get good sound with piezo on fretted. It is possible, though.
A guitarist I know installed one on his strat in order to get a more « acoustic » feel. It sounded great.
I had a fretless with a piezo only that I sold 15 years ago. Sounded good but not versatile enough for my taste at the time.
Fir those who have both magnetic and piezo, how does it sound? Any issue when blending them?
I had a fretless with a piezo only that I sold 15 years ago. Sounded good but not versatile enough for my taste at the time.
Fir those who have both magnetic and piezo, how does it sound? Any issue when blending them?
I built my 5 string fretless with Bart J pickups and a piezo bridge. When blended just right, it sounds like an upright. Very woody and acoustical. Wouldn't seem useful on a fretted IMHO.
I had a 5 string fretless with both mag and piezo pickups. It sounded nice but I had trouble dealing with both fretless and 5 in the same instrument.
i sold it to a guitarist who called me an hour later, furious I had sold him an instrument with a severely bowed neck. I told him it was fine when he picked it up (and tested it).
What did you do after you got it home?
"well, it was tuned WAY flat so all I did was tune it up"
he was satisfied when I pointed out the low note was B, not E.
i sold it to a guitarist who called me an hour later, furious I had sold him an instrument with a severely bowed neck. I told him it was fine when he picked it up (and tested it).
What did you do after you got it home?
"well, it was tuned WAY flat so all I did was tune it up"
he was satisfied when I pointed out the low note was B, not E.
They did.
USA Spire and USA John Entwistle.
Aphex only, not piezo.
So half of what you mentioned.
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