It certainly creates a solid, rocking voice with some light gain. Running both systems through two amps, the piezo adds texture, although for nailing an accurate flat-top acoustic sound it misses the mark.Īs for the magnetic sounds, there's a firmness and balance to the bridge pickup that's not overly mid-range heavy strong but not overly hot.
Heavier ropes would help and while a little more fullness can be achieved with some outboard compression, it sounds a little synthetic. Still, with some tweaking there's a good enough range of more 'solidbody' piezo acoustic sounds although they contrast quite dramatically with the thick and rich magnetic sounds - as though the actual guitar is playing little part in the piezo sound, more the string. Not that you'd want to - this system is more than bright and zingy enough. The controls are complex with standard volume and tone rotaries for the magnetics, then three stacked knobs: piezo volume/MIDI volume, mid-range frequency/mid-range cut and boost, and treble cut and boost/ bass cut and boost.Īuditioning the piezo output (we're not testing the synth access here), you're met with a noticeable - we'd say intrusive - background hiss that's primarily coming from the treble EQ even fully cut you can still hear it and it means you can't really boost the treble. It's a shame because that treatment can work well for jazzier or textural voices. Two outputs, but no mixed mono mode, which means you either send the piezo to an acoustic amp or PA, or the magnetic into your guitar amp: you can't mix both together through one amp. Powering for the circuitry - a single 9V block - is rear-placed and accessed via a flip-top lid: simple but very effective. Not only do we have piezo saddles, courtesy of Graph Tech's Ghost system, but also synth access. With its dual humbuckers, shoulder-placed three-way toggle and tune-o-matic-style bridge/ stud tailpiece set-up, it sticks to a Les Paul control layout, aside from the seemingly complex array of additional controls and sizeable side-plated socket plate that holds two 6.4mm jacks and a 13-pin DIN.
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