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Old 10-17-2009, 04:40 PM
Guitarmattms Guitarmattms is offline
 
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Piezo mod?


Hey, Guys


I just recently picked up a cheap rg350 and lately i've been liking the idea of piezos. I've played a few guitars that had them installed and just love the sound of them. I'm not a big fan of acoustics so this would be a great alternative for me.

Now, I'm aware they used to make a Double Edge that was equipped trem but not any more. What are my options here? I don't really want to spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on this though. I do know that Graphtech does make a drop in floyd rose replacement with piezo but a Floyd Rose doesn't fit into a edge 3 trem without routing right?

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Old 10-18-2009, 05:08 AM
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Re: Piezo mod?


So, I'm thinking it won't be to hard to add this to my guitar....
http://www.graphtech.com/product-352-2/
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Old 10-18-2009, 06:45 AM
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Re: Piezo mod?


A Floyd should fit in an Edge 3 rout, but has different stud sizes and spacing, so you might need to do some hole filling and re-drilling, but it should work fine.
Also, you should really use a preamp with piezo's or they wont sound as good.
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Old 10-18-2009, 04:31 PM
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Re: Piezo mod?


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A Floyd should fit in an Edge 3 rout, but has different stud sizes and spacing, so you might need to do some hole filling and re-drilling, but it should work fine.
Also, you should really use a preamp with piezo's or they wont sound as good.
I've talked to a guy on youtube who installed a ofr trem into a Ibanez RG350DX and said there was no routing or re drilling needed. :-) So, I sent an email to Graphtech asking them if I need to route anything to fit the preamp. Which comes with the trem. The cool thing about this is that I have been lusting over a piezo equipped guitar and I can get this just for 50 dollars more than the OFR. So, I think it's what I'm going to go with.

Last edited by Guitarmattms; 10-18-2009 at 04:32 PM. Reason: spelling, sentence restructer.
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Old 11-03-2009, 11:39 PM
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Re: Piezo mod?


aaah.. if only you had a guitar with an edge pro!

http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/dea...-possible.html
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