Andrew Paul
The cat's meow
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Alnus Rubra
Loving nature’s wonders
Alnus Rubra
Loving nature’s wonders
You need google photos to view them.
Here’s the finished guitar -
@jamrcat Imgur or Postimage is a little more user friendly on here (just for info).
Alnus Rubra
Loving nature’s wonders
Hey no problems.
I initially used Google and it’s awkward to load forum links, which is a shame, because it’s a decent platform for image hosting.
aphantomvaper
Bend it to the Owl!
That's a fine looking CE SH Piezo!!!!!You need google photos to view them.
Here’s the finished guitar -
@jamrcat Imgur or Postimage is a little more user friendly on here (just for info).
Andrew Paul
The cat's meow
Awesome!!! Well done!!!You need google photos to view them.
Here’s the finished guitar -
@jamrcat Imgur or Postimage is a little more user friendly on here (just for info).
Red one is in Hiland config, so the neck pickup is set to split by default. The volume is a push/pull so pull that up and the neck is humbucker mode and the bridge is split. One of the mini-toggles is a Sweet Switch and the other is a 3 way for the pickups.
Andrew Paul
The cat's meow
If you don’t mind what type of mini toggle do you use on the three-way. I am assuming that it’s a long shaft I would like to do a three pickup selector switch mini toggle for one of my older PRS guitars without modifying the holes.
Alnus Rubra
Loving nature’s wonders
Nope, nada, negatory! Not getting me that easily.
Andrew Paul
The cat's meow
I you saying they don’t exist? Or you just don’t want to give up the information?
Alnus Rubra
Loving nature’s wonders
I you saying they don’t exist? Or you just don’t want to give up the information?
Sorry Andrew it was all your talk of “three-ways”, “long shafts” and “modifying holes”.
I have a bag of three way mini-toggles that would most likely be suitable. PM me your address and I will send you a couple to try.
Andrew Paul
The cat's meow
I fell for that hook line and sinker. I should know better lol you dirty old bastard you
Thank you so much I’ll PM you the info!!!
I installed it quite awhile ago but I'm a solid 71% sure that the 3 way is a standard one, not long shaft. I think I might have taken off any lower side nut or washer and have the body of the 3 way pushed right up against the body so that it's barely just sticking up out of the hole. It's not easy to get the nut on but when you do it's pretty flush and looks good. I've done this with a few of my PRSes.
ViperDoc
Plugged In.
Excellent work, jamrcat. Nice job.
Did you have any issues with the active Fishmans and the Piezo? I had started to consider trying to install a set of Fishman Fluence Classics that u have laying around I to my Core HBII Piezo. However, in my initial research I have read that piezo + active pickups don't work together. I wouldn't lose sleep over not being able to blend the piezo and mag together at the same time, but as long as I can still plug into the combo jack and switch between them with the 3 way switch, I would be good to go.I wish I'd seen this earlier. Maybe 15 years ago I installed a GHOST piezo into a CE24 that I bought specifically to do this. I drilled two holes in the bridge to run the wires and drilled a hole in the guitar for the 3 way mini-toggle. I don't use a volume for the piezo on the guitar. I set the trim on the preamp to match the output of the mag pickups when running full bore. The three way of the Triple Shot should work the same as a regular three way, just wire it to the triple shot instead of a 3 way.
I have since installed Fishman Fluence pickups on it and run the pickups and the piezo off the same 9 volt. The Fishman uses both knobs as push/pulls so I couldn't use a piezo volume anyway. It all fits.
It's the green one.
Not sure why anyone would say that. It works great!
That's interesting to hear. I wound up asking the question to PRS Customer Service and got the following response (note this os specific to the HBII Piezo). I wonder what the difference might be with how your piezo preamp is able to blend the two signals together without issue while the PRS one apparently is not able to.
I am thinking about potentially giving up the option of blending the mag and piezo together and going with separate outputs for each (there are already two output jacks). I am in the middle of installing the Fluences into a different guitar to get reacquainted with them again before considering the plunge of modding up a Wood Library PRS.
All signal (both Piezo and Magnetic) will pass through the Piezo circuit board of a HBII Piezo, so it would require some significant modifications to the Piezo board and volume components in order to achieve a setup with an active set of pickups, such as the Fishman Fluence set.
Our tech had advised that the change in volume pot value in order to accomplish this typically either results in a bad sounding Piezo signal, or bad sounding magnetic signal, depending on your choice of volume pot value.
The other workaround to this would be to install a completely separate active circuit for the the Fishman circuit, but then you lose your ability to blend the two signals.
Generally, we wouldn't advise this since it would change the overall layout of controls and affect signal in a way that we believe doesn't sound as good as the original parts.
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frankencat
Guitarded
One problem I have run into in the past when installing the Ghost system is the clearance under the saddles. If there isn’t enough clearance the wires will kink and bind and you won’t be able to adjust the saddles low enough. Other than that it’s a great system and it looks like you have it handled. Nice job!
