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  2. Multi Voiced Guitar Build

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    8 hours ago, mistermikev said:

    Did not realize the pickukps were acoustic flavor - interesting.

    The acoustic pickup is a fishman piezo under saddle run through the LRBaggs preamp. The mag pups are specially wound for the bronze strings. They still put out a good electric tone. Played with it today and got the electric tone dialed in!

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    1 hour ago, mistermikev said:

    In the helix you can add an ir from a full acoustic - have you tried that?  How is it?  Worth it?  I have axe fx 3 and have played with acoustic ir but it's just not satisfactory with no piezo

    I have used ag ir’s with my piezo equipped Strat and it sounds okay with the Baggs x bridge but this is a whole new level. I am not sure I will need the ir’s. I might blend one in. Combination of resonant hollow body and no metal chunk of a bridge makes a ton of difference. I am also using bronze acoustic strings which makes a huge difference in ag tone. I wouldn’t put money/effort in anything less that the hollow body, acoustic bridge, bronze string combo. The trade off is the electrics but the Tom Anderson pickups are amazing! They work with the bronze strings and sound great! 

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  5. Multi Voiced Guitar Build

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    Somebody got played today! Still have some more details to finish (Knobs, rear cavity cover, fretwork, etc.) but she is better that I hoped for! Acoustic tones are great! Electric tones are solid too, just gotta tweak the amp settings to find her sweet spot! I play through a Helix with 3 signal chains. Acoustic, Electric, and a very wet ambient Electric. I can layer all 3 or any combination. To do it I use a stereo cable and separate the piezo signal from the magnetic pups. Acoustic gets processed independent from the mags. The magnetic signal goes through preamp section then is split into 2 signal chains for amp modeling. I use a torpedo cab in an fx loop for the main magnetic modeling and use the helix amp modeling for the wet ambience! 2 outputs to the soundboard. One for acoustic and one for electric. End result=beautiful! Easily the best guitar I have! I feel like a kid at Christmas.

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  11. Multi Voiced Guitar Build

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    2 hours ago, Bizman62 said:

    That's what I thought by the looks. One question, though: Are there springs between the inside of the top and the feet of the pickups and if there are, how do you sneak them in?

    Yep, rubber bushings between the top and the feet. They stay on the screw enough to set the screw in, slide on the bushing, move the pickup in place, and then wiggle it all around until it finds the right hole in the pickup. Something I hope to only have to do once.

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  17. Multi Voiced Guitar Build

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    2 hours ago, ADFinlayson said:

    the subtle stain really works with that piece. You know, if you upload your photos to photos.google.com instead of photobucket, you won't get any annoying watermarks on your pics, there is no cost or storage limit to google photos and there is a really good phone app app that makes it easy to put your photos into albums for your builds 👍

    Thx. I have been trying to figure that exact thing out

  20. Multi Voiced Guitar Build

    in In Progress and Finished Work

    Posted · Edited by Livinloud777

    On 10/6/2019 at 2:47 PM, Andyjr1515 said:

    Hi and welcome :)

    Looks interesting.  What are the specs ref scale, pickups, etc?

    24 3/4 scale

    fishman under saddle piezo

    lr bags control x preamp

    Tom Anderson cma3 bridge pup

    Tom Anderson cma2 neck pup

    Wenge Laminated neck

    Black Limba back with a wedge of Wenge (kind of reminiscent of the acoustics with 3 piece back)

    Maple top

    Ebony fretboard and Bridge

    Bone nut and Saddle

    going to use acoustic strings as the TA pups are designed for them

    When we strung it up with a temp jig to find the proper bridge placement it had amazing resonance! Go me excited

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