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I am going to be using a solid-state Line 6 amp. I am not going to be using a 30 year-old amp to test the piezo pickups. That said, older amps (Pre-80's) may have an issue with higher impedances due to design. In fact, many guitar amps have Hi and Lo inputs to provide an input to suit the needs of modern equiment that operates at high impedances.

Most modern amps can handle high impedances if memory serves me correctly. It will be interesting to see what happens, so stay tuned. I am not biased, this just sounded like fun and I thought I would try it. Sesselman's work is a scam, it is about to be exposed for what it is. My guitar already has electronics, I am just messing around for fun and scientific purposes. The science is there, but I am going to do some testing. I have researched this on other websites about the bending and pushing effects on piezos. People have reviewed his pickups on multiple with 4 and 5 star reviews. Stay tuned, this should be pretty intriguing. I will hopefully get some testing in, but I have to keep up with my school schedule. The piezos I ordered should be here this week. I am going to test different amounts of wood and etc. I am going to take a dowel rod and make a small cap. A cap can be placed along the edge of the piezo to slightly bend the piezo as you play, creating bass frequencies. To stimulate a piezo through bending, only the center of the piezo should be mounted by a small dot of adhesive.

I am going to try coins, metal washers, and bolts. I am going to try different weights of objects and post the results. The counterweight controls the treble frequencies of the pickup. Peter Sesselman describes this in his videos, along with the rest of the things I will be talking about. To stimulate the pulling and pushing of a piezo, I am going to put a counterweight on one side of the piezo. the issue with this is that it is the weakest stimulus out of the three stimuli I mentioned above however, if you combine the effects of the other two stimuli with the vibration, you can tweak the dynamics of a piezo-based pickup. Often times, this will be the main source of sound from a piezo-based pickup. Vibration is the first stimulus of a piezo. He talks about the design and construction of his piezo pickups, and this is what I plan to experiment with. Sesselman and watched some of his youtube videos. Piezos are affected by three things: vibration, bending, pushing and pulling. I don't know if you have ever heard of a man named Peter Sesselman, but he makes guitar pickups from piezos, and he has his craft down to a science. I am sure that many of you have toyed around with acoustic guitars and a piezo, but I am going to take it one step farther, with a little bit of applied science. Over the next few months, I am going to be experimenting with piezo pickups.