jaredyates
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Hi everyone, I have a question about pickups. I have just built a very compact solid-body travel ukulele, which I plan to carry with me on my frequent travels. The small size was the primary goal, and to that end it is a success. I was primarily looking for strings and a fretboard that would allow me to practice- so sound quality and output are not important since I have a fancier ukulele at home. One secondary goal was to provide electric pickup that I could listen to on headphones, and a tertiary goal is perhaps one day even a line-in that would mix with my ipod's music out to allow me to play along silently in my hotel room. I installed one of these:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-2-Band-...-Cell-BL-Hard-Ukulele-Piezo-380-/321064926144
and it seems like a pretty good little unit. The tuner works, but the pickup is not working very well. If I hold the pickup so that it is pretty much touching the strings, then I can hear the strings in my headphones, but of course then the pickup fouls the strings. The pickup is a piezo fellow with four little bumps, and you can see him in the pictures on the auction link above.
I haven't found any instructions for how the piezo is supposed to be installed, so odds are good that I'm not doing it right in the first place. I should also add that I'm really new to all of this and could likely have a really basic problem.
Does anyone have any suggestions for how or where I should install the pickup, or how I can make it work with a little more distance from the strings? Once again, I'm not looking for concert quality, just basic functionality. Thanks in advance!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-2-Band-...-Cell-BL-Hard-Ukulele-Piezo-380-/321064926144
and it seems like a pretty good little unit. The tuner works, but the pickup is not working very well. If I hold the pickup so that it is pretty much touching the strings, then I can hear the strings in my headphones, but of course then the pickup fouls the strings. The pickup is a piezo fellow with four little bumps, and you can see him in the pictures on the auction link above.
I haven't found any instructions for how the piezo is supposed to be installed, so odds are good that I'm not doing it right in the first place. I should also add that I'm really new to all of this and could likely have a really basic problem.
Does anyone have any suggestions for how or where I should install the pickup, or how I can make it work with a little more distance from the strings? Once again, I'm not looking for concert quality, just basic functionality. Thanks in advance!