Hi all!
Got my guitar back today - as expected no errors were found.
So I plugged it back into my amp, and voilá my favourite pling noise is still there.
Looks like my guitar could be back to the retailer in a couple of days for demonstration, this time I'll take my amp and cable to show them what's going on.
But before that happens I still want to sort things out.
Made some tests today on my amp (Fender Mustang v2) and on my PC with a DAW software and BiasFX as VST plugin.
It made no difference , in both setups the "plinging" sound is very audible.
Some pages and posts before I think I was reading something about "pick scraping".
So I did exactly this , I palm muted the string and just scraped the string with my pick longitudinal - and got exactly the noise I hear with regular palm muted playing.
That could lead to the conclusion that the piezos are so microphonic that they just pick up this sound.
Maybe we don't hear this sound on the A5 string because the pick doesn't get so far between the string wounds - the A5 string is less in diameter, has around 1kg more tension and the space between each wounds could be smaller as well, maybe this difference is big enough for the pickup to react so completely different.
This all will lead me into a final test:
I'll order some D'Addario ECG23 Chromes Flatwound 10-48 strings. My dad has those on his Ibanez. I'm not a huge fan of those strings, especially when it comes to slides when you don't have bone dry fingers. Also I don't really like the sound when it comes to the magnetic pickups (could be the pickups of my dad's guitar ; but D'Addario says those strings have a more mellow tone). Don't know if this even has effects on the piezos though.
If I order them today I might get them tomorrow , to keep your fingers crossed and wish me luck that this works-
kind regards
Alex