1/23/2024 0 Comments Piezo pickups vs magneticThere are very likely other ways to do this or other brands besides Baggs. So great, I don't need the belt mounted Mixpro or short TRS cable - now I just need the splitter, two long TS cables, and two 30 lb amps to haul. I've done that at home sending my mag to my old Peavey 130 and the SBT to my Carvin AG300. You can use a TRS to two TS connector splitter to send each pickup's output to a completely different amp. Less gear to carry, fewer connections to fail, nothing inside the instrument but passive pickups - no batteries to leak or change. One TRS cord to the Mixpro, one TS cord to an amp or PA board. You can go all magnetic, all piezo or blend them however you like. If you use two cords I would secure them together in their length so it is more like one heavier cord.The Mixpro will do the mixing for you. You can but a cord with two sends like an XLR mic cord, but you will need to split them at the end anyway. Each cord can now go to the appropriate amp and you won't need to install electronics inside the instrument. The only difference is I would wire two cords to the one TRS plug that goes into the mandolin. I would do as Bart says, using the tip ring sleeve. Last edited by Mandobart Dec-30-2022 at 6:28pm. All my fiddles use piezoelectric soundboard transducers mounted under the soundboard, opposite the bridge feet contact points. I don't know which violin strings would work with a magnetic pickup, but I would find out if I were you. I use monel strings (which are ferromagnetic). Neither of those plans in your picture will work as well as what I described. That's why you need a preamp that can handle two separate inputs, like the Mixpro, and you need to wire them separately (they can't both go to the tip of a mono TS jack). He's right about the different impedance values for mags and piezos. The Mixpro allows me to go all mag, all piezo or blend the two. I then run the output to a Baggs MixPro preamp on my belt with a short TRS cable. I wired them both to a TRS jack (the mag pickup to the tip, JJB piezo to the ring). JJB SBT and a Kent Armstrong floating neck magnetic pickup. I only have dual pickups on one instrument, my Eastman archtop guitar. If push comes to shove, I will probably just not switch to the middle switch position, where both the mag pup signal and bridge pup signals are mixed (or just not even solder anything to the third terminal of the switch). The second drawing is the potential plan B (onboard preamp), but I would like to avoid that. Magnetic pickups on a violin are not common, but are on mandolins! Does anyone here have any experience with mixing a magnetic coil pickup and a bridge pickup on their mandolin (hollow, semi-hollow, or solid)? If so, what were the results? So, I thought this would be a good place to refer to. He is wondering if we’d lose/ruin the sound/signal from the bridge pickup. Essentially he say that because the bridge pickup has a high impedance while the magnetic pickup has a low impedance, the magnetic pickup *might* ruin the sound of the bridge pickup. His concern about having a magnetic coil pickup in addition to the bridge pickup is that the magnetic pickup will hinder the sound from the bridge pickup. I met with a family friend who makes custom guitar and bass magnetic coil pickups about making me a custom mag pickup. It will have an internal piezo bridge pickup and potentially a magnetic pickup. Hello, I am having a custom electric violin made, but because this is a pickup question, I thought I might ask here as well.
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