Although, the piezo under the metal bridge seemed to work nicely for shaping the tone when you blended it with the magnetic pickups.Īfter spending time with all these different hybrids, I narrowed it down to the next three guitars that made an impression on me. It seems any hybrid with a metal bridge sounded thin and could not hold a candle to an acoustic guitar plugged in. All nice guitars, but they did not have the sound I was looking for. I played around with the Italia hybrid guitar, Dean Colt, and Gibson and PRS Hybrids. I tried the Ibanez Montage, it was a full-size familiar-sounding acoustic but was definitely weaker on its electric guitar tones. I experimented with whatever I could find at the time. Then one day, I discovered the world of hybrid guitars, and so began the search for my next instrument. I used to do my looping with a concert size acoustic guitar and kick on the effects for guitar solos, but the tone is not the best if you're using overdrive with a piezo pickup. I do a lot of looping with the acoustic tones and guitar soloing using the magnetic pickups sent through a multi-effects processor. I have been performing with hybrid guitars since 2015. It also offers the comfort and playability of an electric guitar. The body resonates and everything inside better be suspended or attached solidly inside away from the body to completely eliminate rattles.What's a hybrid guitar? Well, for many, it is considered to be a guitar that can produce a tone that of an acoustic guitar as well as the magnetic pickup sounds of an electric guitar. On any other semi-hollow guitar it might not be a problem AMPLIFIED BUT the PRS Hollowbody is like a violin. PTC raised the pickups up higher than needed and sent the guitar back working fine but RATTLING LIKE CRAZY because of not routing the wires away from lying loose against the body inside. Will reply later - but it is possible to have one that doesn't buzz at all - I guess the early ones might have been assembled with more care. The 07 was bought NOS 10/15 and had the piezo board replaced by PTC and they did not bother to route the wires away from the body - I am about to remedy this and put back the old style battery holder with the screw mount. The 05 sounds like an acoustic guitar with NO BUZZ AT ALL. Also the wires inside not being attached and/or suspended so they don't touch the body of the guitar is a problem. Problems I have found include the pickup switch rattling in the middle position and on newer models with the plastic battery holder - it's not held tight and rattles. I'd suspect it's the contacts of the switch that are bouncing around just a bit. I don't expect it to be an actual wire moving around, since those types of switches don't have the wire connected to any moving part of the switch. I haven't taken it apart, and it might be hard to tell what exactly is wrong even if I did. However, I think it's a touchy thing, and it'll be back. Eventually, it went away, and I couldn't get it to do it anymore. I was able to make it come and go by moving it to or away from the middle position, and I did this several times. In the up and down positions, I get no buzz. When the pickup selector is in the middle position, I get the buzz. It seems that it's actually related to the pickup selector switch - the full sized switch that selects the magnetic pickups, not the little switch for selecting the piezo output. The buzz was quite pronounced the other night, and I was able to start fiddling around with the bridge, knobs, etc., on the guitar to see if I could get it to go away. It's been a while, but I made some progress on this issue. Unfortunately, I won't be dismantling my HBII anytime soon - there are already too many things in pieces in my basement, and I don't need another! I'll be interested to hear all ideas and solutions. When I lay the guitar flat, there could be just enough gravity to pull that "whatever it is" away from whatever it is rattling against. I haven't taken it apart yet, but I'm sure it could be something like a wire just barely touching the body on the inside of the cavity, or a piece of slightly loose hardware under the bridge. That is, if I strum it just so, and get it going, it will stop as I move the guitar to a more horizontal (flat) position so that I can hear it better. One thing that doesn't help matters is that it goes away if you move the guitar around. I suppose it could be the set screw for the bridge, and I could have a look there. I checked the intonation screws, and I don't think it's that (though I did see that on a Gretsch Electromatic once). It's definitely not fret buzz, and it doesn't matter if I put some pressure on the string. Anyway, I have the same problem, and I also can't pinpoint it. My HBII has individually adjustable saddles (maybe because it has the gold HW upgrade?).
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