Heavy right hand technique brings that quack out the most, which ends up sounding thin. Re playing touch with piezo: back when I worked in an acoustic shop, I heard a lot of great players who could make a piezo system sound great, and a lot that made it sound very artificial and flat. I definitely wouldn't run the piezo signal through a traditional electric setup unless I was doing so for a funky effect. So I'm still processing the piezo signal like I would an acoustic w/pickup, but also want the more constrained sound of IRs in the electric chain so the electric sound doesn't sound bigger than the acoustic. Both paths then merge before they hit modulation, delays, reverb, and my looper, and go through the same output to a monitor, not a guitar amp or cabinet. The magnetic path starts with amp and cab sims, while the piezo has multiband compression, and parametric EQs and an acoustic IR running parallel to get a little less quack and more body (the mids in the 300-800hz are what needs the most work) to the sound. If that's the sound you want, that's fine, but again if I'm doing just acoustic I'd rather not have to address that battle on a different guitar.Īll that said, I'm prepping a gig this weekend using the PRS with two separate signal chains in my modeler (AxeFX). The second reason is that it really doesn't sound like an acoustic guitar, it sounds like a quacky/zingy piezo pickup in an acoustic guitar, which is something that a lot of acoustic player work very hard to eliminate using outboard gear and playing touch (more on that below). Fingerstyle and single note playing sound a little better. So if I'm playing something that is very strum-y on the PRS, it doesn't have the same percussive quality I would normally want. 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.
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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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