I happen to have Music Man John Petrucci signature with piezo option. Never really used it, but now I have projects in sight where I could find it useful. Therefore I'd like to hear any tips and hints to make a sound more acoustic alike. Any hints from ITB effect/etc tips to hardware would be interesting.
Better acoustic sound with piezo equipped electric guitar
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Mic an acoustic. A piezo pickup in an electric is cool for live use and funky sounds, but not a substitute for the real deal.
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I used to have an ibanez prestige S with piezo outs. Matrix is right that its never gonna be 100% but I got what I thought were good results.
I eq'd the shit out of it, removed a ton of core mids, controlled the low end and put a colorfull boost up top with waves Veq, sort of a controlled smiley face eq curve with all the junk at the extreme high and low removed. Then I added a touch of compression with an La2 style comp, I forget which one I used, maybe the antress modern one. Then once I got it sounding pretty great I thought it was a bit upfront so I added waves true verb to it and put it on the guitar room setting, blended in early reflections until it smeared enough of the signal that it sat in the mix pretty well and wasnt so obviously a direct sound. Good Luck.
I eq'd the shit out of it, removed a ton of core mids, controlled the low end and put a colorfull boost up top with waves Veq, sort of a controlled smiley face eq curve with all the junk at the extreme high and low removed. Then I added a touch of compression with an La2 style comp, I forget which one I used, maybe the antress modern one. Then once I got it sounding pretty great I thought it was a bit upfront so I added waves true verb to it and put it on the guitar room setting, blended in early reflections until it smeared enough of the signal that it sat in the mix pretty well and wasnt so obviously a direct sound. Good Luck.
