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Old 01-11-2022, 11:46 AM
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I've waited a long bit to answer this because I have something of a contrary opinion, and here it is: Life s a compromise. We can't always get everything we want at once. The piezo pickup is a compromise. It is the most reliable, predictable pickup there is. It is the best at rejecting inducted noise and feedback. As a result, for traveling musicians who play in an ensemble, it allows the fastest, most reliable, most trouble-free setup of all the pickups.

It might sound like a conundrum, but the big tours in big venues come with their own big challenges such as terrible acoustics in sports arenas alternating with huge boomy theaters. For those circumstances you need reliable sound as much as you need good sound, and that's why traveling artists sometimes use piezos and work around their quack.

Bob
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