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Originally Posted by floridartist
Hello all, hey, my piezo pickup in my Yamaha A3R broke, I guess I did it, when I was messing around with my saddle, let me ask, are all these under the saddle Piezo pickups about the same, is the one in the new Yamaha A series any different than your normal piezo, I will have to have a new one put in and was wondering if I should just go ahead and order the same one, or go ahead and upgrade. Or, solder it, this piezo has two wires, one wire has white coating, it must o to the copper, the other is uncoated, I just dont know where it connects too. I even have a good picture, but I dont know how to put it on this post,
Thanks for your help
John
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I do this kind of work. The Piezo should be separated from the saddle so taking the saddle off should not damage the piezo. The only thing i can think of..is you disconnected the wiring from the jack. Honestly, you just have to solder it back on. I would not replace the pickup unless you damaged the actual sensor. The preamp will take any undersaddle piezo pickup. If you did damage the piezo, i would replace it with a cheap deal from Arctec or even Fishman thinline. The impulse generator inside the Yamaha will replace offending frequencies coming from the pickup anyways so cheap or expensive pickup, your going to get the same results.
The pickup in the Yamaha 3 series is by far the best pickup and preamp combination i have came across other than Fishman. The Fishman Matrix pickup and Aura preamp work the same as the Yamaha pickup and preamp engineering combination. Its all microphone impulse technology. Honestly, the stock pickup with out the modeling being used on the Yamaha, sounded better than most stock piezos ive heard from Fishman, LR Baggs and other leading brands.