![]() ![]() Probably the biggest is that the note envelope and decay is different and is not really tweakable acoustics have a much stronger attach and quicker decay than even hollowbodies. If I was doing a straight acoustic gig, I'd rather have my acoustic with pickup for a few different reasons. I have an older PRS Hollowbody Spruce (not SE) with the piezo system. ![]() For live loosing the mids is a big sacrifice. Again, sounded fine with me playing alone but got burried in the mix. Your mileage may vary.Įdit: after that I thought I still wanted that sound and got an acoustic simulator pedal. If it was just that one guitar and vocals that would have been fine but with drums and bass as well it just did not work. The thing with the piezo sound is that it is very scooped in the mids and becuase of that it gets lost on stage. That was in a band situation but nothing too rocking or loud. Using the piezo live just got me burried in the mix and I could not be heard at all while turning up to be heard was just too harsh and bright. It was cool at home but the first gig I tried it at I realized that I had just wasted a lot of time and money. ![]() It sounded great at home and for recording and I had a toggle switch put in so that I could choose piezo only, magnetic only or piezo and magnetic blended and blend with the knob. I bought a fishman piezo TOM bridge and the preamp and paid to have it installed on my Gibson the Paul. Several years back I got on a piezo kick and was convinced that I needed that sound. ![]()
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