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BucF16 Just Startin' 30 posts since
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May 6, 2012 7:00 PM

Variax 700 Piezo Problem

I had the bridge on my Vx700 changed to graphtech ghost saddles. I also recently had the entire circuit board replaced. I had a whiney background noise that the new circuit board seems to have fixed.

 

BUT I have a problem with my piezo saddles hearing their adjacent strings so that none of the pitch shifting works correctly because of noise from adjacent strings.

 

So to help figure this out I went into workbench and turned all the string volumes to zero. Then I brought up each string volume 1 by 1 and played all the guitar strings. The result was that basically all of my strings get varying amounts of input from adjacent strings except for the G string which is 100% discrete to the G string.

 

Never having tried this experiment before, I'm thinking that in a properly working variax all the strings should sound 100% discretely through their individual saddles and not bleed over into other saddles.

 

My question: Is this correct? What could be possible causes of this? could it be wired to the board incorrectly? Could it just be the saddles vibrating against each other?

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

  • amx05462 Power User 3,495 posts since
    Sep 1, 2008
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    May 10, 2012 12:50 AM (in response to BucF16)
    Re: Variax 700 Piezo Problem

    piezos  are  made to pick up resonant  sound.. thats  why the  stick on ones  work  and the  ones  under the saddle..

     

    the  graphtechs  are   more  sensetive than  the lr baggs   ones...

     

    take a  match book  cover  and  slip it  under the   saddle  ajustment  screws  and see  if that dont  cure this  problem.. if it  does. and  most likely it  will because it  should  deaden the  resonance  fom the body.. then   you can find  something   nicer  looking  later  on...

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