Comments on: Cheap DIY acoustic guitar pickup

By: Eliseo

Eliseo — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:24:53 +0000

Nice Stuff… Keep It Up.

By: Ovidiu - GuitarFlame.com

Ovidiu - GuitarFlame.com — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:15:05 +0000

Yes! This was what I used to do back in highschool! Man, what a feeling!

By: sinerasis

sinerasis — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:16:38 +0000

Nice, I will actually try this one. I bought some pile of crap one for 7 dollars a while ago thinking “how bad could it be?” It really exceeded my expectations for crap.

By: mikey g.

mikey g. — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:30:17 +0000

i did this with a piezo element from radioshack for my violin, it amazed my jazz group whenever they heard it. (plus it’s fun to go around telling people you built your own pickup)

By: Wolf

Wolf — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:45:10 +0000

As far as uses for piezo’s, don’t forget about adding weights and using them as accelerometers or vibration sensors.

By: Wolf

Wolf — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:42:32 +0000

The fact that it works doesn’t surprise me, but with no preamp and a piezo of average quality, I can’t believe how good it sounds.

By: Adam Ziegler

Adam Ziegler — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:48:26 +0000

I have on occasion wound electric guitar pickups. I also played around with piezo pickups also. I simple little diy transistor based pre-amp (to fix impedance) makes a world of difference on a piezo pickup, and does not add much cost.

By: Tachyon

Tachyon — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:19:27 +0000

You can also use them to make Scanning Tunnelling Microscopes for around 50 bucks.

By: Roly

Roly — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:06:52 +0000

My piezo Hydromic underwater microphone is back up at;
http://ozvalveamps.elands.com/techsite/hydromic/hydromic.htm

By: Nipponese

Nipponese — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:13:11 +0000

I have done pretty much the exact same thing back in the 80’s when I was a poor and couldn’t afford to buy a nice electric acoustic that I dreamed of at the time.