Hi all, I'm new to the forum.
I recently purchased a PRS SE Hollowbody II Piezo, which I really like, but the stock 58/15 "S" Pickups were too hot for my taste for a hollowbody guitar.
So I swapped them out for Humbucker sized P-90 style pickups (Lollar Novel 90), now I really love the magnetic pickup sound of that guitar.
However, now the magnetic pickups are out-of-phase with the piezo pickup, so the blend tones sound weird.
=> Is there any way to invert the phase of the piezo pickup?
Unfortunately, the P90 have "vintage" braided shield wiring (= just one inner "hot" lead, and the "ground" outer shield that is also connected to the pickup cover)... so I can't just swap the pickup wires.
Well, I have tried, that fixes the phase, but at the price introducing of terrible hum/noise ... ;-)
The original L.R. Baggs "Ctrl-X" piezo preamp (which I assume the HBII's piezo board to be based on) actually has a dedicated phase switch to adjust phase when retrofitting a piezo, but of course not the custom board in the PRS...
I have tried the obvious and swapped the piezo connector wires at the piezo board, but that again seems to just short the piezo's "hot" to ground...
(My last resort would be to mechanically take apart the pickups to invert the magnets, or just to buy new pickups with shielded 2-conductor wire, but I would like to avoid that ...)
All ideas are much appreciated!
I recently purchased a PRS SE Hollowbody II Piezo, which I really like, but the stock 58/15 "S" Pickups were too hot for my taste for a hollowbody guitar.
So I swapped them out for Humbucker sized P-90 style pickups (Lollar Novel 90), now I really love the magnetic pickup sound of that guitar.
However, now the magnetic pickups are out-of-phase with the piezo pickup, so the blend tones sound weird.
=> Is there any way to invert the phase of the piezo pickup?
Unfortunately, the P90 have "vintage" braided shield wiring (= just one inner "hot" lead, and the "ground" outer shield that is also connected to the pickup cover)... so I can't just swap the pickup wires.
Well, I have tried, that fixes the phase, but at the price introducing of terrible hum/noise ... ;-)
The original L.R. Baggs "Ctrl-X" piezo preamp (which I assume the HBII's piezo board to be based on) actually has a dedicated phase switch to adjust phase when retrofitting a piezo, but of course not the custom board in the PRS...
I have tried the obvious and swapped the piezo connector wires at the piezo board, but that again seems to just short the piezo's "hot" to ground...
(My last resort would be to mechanically take apart the pickups to invert the magnets, or just to buy new pickups with shielded 2-conductor wire, but I would like to avoid that ...)
All ideas are much appreciated!