Maybe someone can help me. I'm after one of these:
http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_pickups/Supplies:_Wire,_cables/Stereo_Y-cable.html?actn=100101&xst=3&xsr=81164
It's a Y-Cable. And I'll tell you why I want it. Well, maybe I want it you can tell me.
I am busy making a hellofa mess putting together a pickup for an acoustic guitar. It's a K&K lookalike. Well, it's not going to look anything like the K&K but hopefully it will give a closish result. So, I've got these piezo disks. And I've got some 24 gauge hookup wire. And I've got soldering things. And then I solder the wire to the disks and then to an output jack. You should check this fruit salad. I've got buggered up disks all over the place. Now, I've been putting it to a mono jack and that is fine becasue as I understand it that is where a passive pickup goes. Alright, so that's a bit like the K&K pure mini ne. Becasue I really think these UST's and SBT' and things are priced hectic for what they are hey. Anyway, K&K got some other models and one I like the look of is the one with a microphone and the piezo SBT things. And the addition of the microphone adds a hellofa lot to what I believe is already a hellofa lot. And I cant believe that they're using anything more than a little elxtret capsule housed in something sexy which nobody is going to see. So I wondered over to Communica and bought some electret microphones. Just littl alluminium capsule type things. And then I wondered a bit further down the road and bought a headset with a microphone on it and pulled it apart right there so I could see the gooseneck. But the gooseneck isnt so lekker so on my way back I went back to Communica and bought some stiff copper wire. Quite stiff. And the plan is to run it alongside the hookup wire from the microphone all covered in some heatshrink (which I bought as well) and then that will be my gooseneck.
I should have done this a long time ago - the new paragraph that is. The the plan is to link the wire from the piezos and the microphone to a stero output jack. Either that or slap a preamp between the microphone and the output jack which will be stereo still. I've got a fishman something or the other from a Cort that noone wanted to buy from me for next to nothing I might add. Well, either that or slap it through a preamp type thing between the output jack and the amplifier. Those are a dime a dozen as well.
Well I'm going to need some sort of special cable from the guitar now arent I? Because some signal comes from the piezos (passive) and some from the microphone which needs to head to the micophone input of my amplifier. Or have I missed the liliy?
Thanks - Ray
http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_pickups/Supplies:_Wire,_cables/Stereo_Y-cable.html?actn=100101&xst=3&xsr=81164
It's a Y-Cable. And I'll tell you why I want it. Well, maybe I want it you can tell me.
I am busy making a hellofa mess putting together a pickup for an acoustic guitar. It's a K&K lookalike. Well, it's not going to look anything like the K&K but hopefully it will give a closish result. So, I've got these piezo disks. And I've got some 24 gauge hookup wire. And I've got soldering things. And then I solder the wire to the disks and then to an output jack. You should check this fruit salad. I've got buggered up disks all over the place. Now, I've been putting it to a mono jack and that is fine becasue as I understand it that is where a passive pickup goes. Alright, so that's a bit like the K&K pure mini ne. Becasue I really think these UST's and SBT' and things are priced hectic for what they are hey. Anyway, K&K got some other models and one I like the look of is the one with a microphone and the piezo SBT things. And the addition of the microphone adds a hellofa lot to what I believe is already a hellofa lot. And I cant believe that they're using anything more than a little elxtret capsule housed in something sexy which nobody is going to see. So I wondered over to Communica and bought some electret microphones. Just littl alluminium capsule type things. And then I wondered a bit further down the road and bought a headset with a microphone on it and pulled it apart right there so I could see the gooseneck. But the gooseneck isnt so lekker so on my way back I went back to Communica and bought some stiff copper wire. Quite stiff. And the plan is to run it alongside the hookup wire from the microphone all covered in some heatshrink (which I bought as well) and then that will be my gooseneck.
I should have done this a long time ago - the new paragraph that is. The the plan is to link the wire from the piezos and the microphone to a stero output jack. Either that or slap a preamp between the microphone and the output jack which will be stereo still. I've got a fishman something or the other from a Cort that noone wanted to buy from me for next to nothing I might add. Well, either that or slap it through a preamp type thing between the output jack and the amplifier. Those are a dime a dozen as well.
Well I'm going to need some sort of special cable from the guitar now arent I? Because some signal comes from the piezos (passive) and some from the microphone which needs to head to the micophone input of my amplifier. Or have I missed the liliy?
Thanks - Ray