Face it, even James Hetfield looks like a wimp when it receives an acoustic guitar. What makes you think you have to preserve the chance of a snowball in hell when you strap on your dignity, your valuable Dreadnought? Instead, try to get a slipping of the piezo bridge, discrete systems on your Tele, Start or Tele-style guitar. It not only convincing acoustic sound, but a variety of exciting new voices, and shouts, including approval of your band andAudience.
LR Baggs X-Bridge
The X-Bridge will replace the two-post tremolo unit and the American Standard start. (LR Baggs makes hard-tail and replace old-timer six-hole Start trem.) The X-Bridge is our contribution Strat-budget model of the "hecho en Mexico" series, looked like a U.S. standard trem, until you close enough to the piezo-see-filled fifth indents and the Wilkinson-style arm. The other changes for the bridge, an electronic stereo outputPiezo and master volume, which had replaced the center tone control, very discreet.
Our X-Bridge launch was complemented by LR Baggs Ctrl-X onboard mixer that passive magnetics can to be combined with piezo bridge pickup. While it requires small but permanent changes to your guitar-installing a larger stereo jack and two small switches, the Ctrl-X, you can select the magnetic or piezo pickups, or both, their levels with separate volume and adjust ComtrolChoose a combination of split-mono or stereo output. The under-the-pickguard 9-volt battery powered circuit for buffering the piezos while the magnetic pickups entirely passive.
The X-Bridge not only from our review of start-acoustic sound, it sounded much better than an entry-level guitar. Running the piezo and magnetic signals together produces a dense, stereo sound wall. Shudder electric riffs were pinned with the narrow frame-Acoustic Clarity, and flowing piezoChords had a dark undertone. The X-Bridge is the fourth start pickup that you've been waiting so long.
TSV Fishman Power Bridge
The TEC Power Bridge is almost indistinquishable from the original American Standard Start replacement bridge. (Fisherman makes vintage cars and vintage Start Telecaster American Standard versions.) The unit of push-in trem arm does not require cosmetic changes, and only the supplied stereo jack and piezo volume control (the lower start replacing clayControl) must be replaced for the original components. The optional Power Fisherman chip includes a "smart sensing" stereo output to toggle between mono and blended split stereo leads and to distinguish an active piezo volume. The Powerchip fits most guitars and requires no changes other than the installation of a battery under the pickguard.
Our test-launch also came with Fishman's optional PowerMax pedal. In addition, therefore, to allow a gentle and quiet confusion of piezo andmagnetic signals, for enabling the PowerMax commitment piezo system, EQ and four outputs that signal to be sent to single or multiple targets.
The Fishman piezo tone was a little stronger and spicier than Baggs. The EQ on the PowerMax helped to remove some top-end rattles and provide balance between the two signals, and the results were particularly convincing. In general, Fishman has reviewed the modern sound of the two units ", and also benefits from lessHandling noise to us during the tremolo unit.
