firefunkrevival
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Does this exist or do you have to have the piezo?
Piezo free hollowbody ii
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veinbuster
Zombie Three, DFZ
I have one.
FatFingerBlues
Rockin that Old Time Rock & Roll
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firefunkrevival
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That is beautiful.I have one.
garrett
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It was optional on the old ones. They are definitely out there.
firefunkrevival
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Maybe a good question would be who likes having both pickups as an option? I’ve heard mixed reviews.
I have a HBII w/piezo. I think it's the most versatile guitar PRS Makes...
dmatthews
Dave's not here
That is an interesting question. I have a 2012 P22 (P for piezo). I bought it so that in my band I could switch pups between piezo and mag pups in order to cover more songs without switching guitars.
It did its job, but I found myself futzing with two cables, or two wireless bugs, more batteries, an additional DI box etc.
A piezo is worthwhile in a live setting methinks, but it will never replace a well mic'd acoustic in recording.
So yes, it's versatile but your needs and desires are what's important.
What is your use case?
FatFingerBlues
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veinbuster
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The last HB in my house will be one with a piezo.
Huggy Love
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I'm in the camp of non-piezo. Never had much use for it, doesn't sound like an acoustic to me, and have no need for a thinner tone. So much that I just yanked the dead weight out of the body & wiring of my SCHB rebuild.
I even have a theory that the extra wiring takes away from the mag PUs tone & signal, but that may be tinfoil hat thinking on my part.
I even have a theory that the extra wiring takes away from the mag PUs tone & signal, but that may be tinfoil hat thinking on my part.
Alnus Rubra
Loving nature’s wonders
Bit of an out of the box, but kinda “in the box” question.
Is the top/back resonant enough that you could mount an LR Baggs microphone near the bridge and use it to take an acoustic tone from an HB?
Would it even be logistically possible?
Is the top/back resonant enough that you could mount an LR Baggs microphone near the bridge and use it to take an acoustic tone from an HB?
Would it even be logistically possible?
CandidPicker
Tone Matters. Use It Well.
Part of my collection includes an SE Hollowbody II:
CandidPicker
Tone Matters. Use It Well.
It's a different sauce than the usual. I used to own an SE HBII Piezo, but couldn't quite get used to 2 cables (even though they now make combined dual instrument cables for these instruments). The Piezo had an entirely unique voice. Here's a really good example of it in use:
DISTORT6
NJ Devil
Never missed the Piezo in my HB Spruce.
I made a "double cable", zip tied together, come in from the guitar to an amp switch box. It was an easy fix.
As to your 2nd point... Agreed. A well mic'ed acoustic is preferable for recording...
