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Old 11-27-2016, 12:58 PM
adaw2821 adaw2821 is offline
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Default Swapping a UST for a SBT

Hello everyone, I have an epiphone masterbilt that has an under saddle transducer as well as a magnetic pickup at the end of the fretboard. There both routed to a blender and onboard preamp. I like the sound of soundboard transducers much better and am wondering if I can simply wire one up in place of the UST and still use factory preamp and blender with the mag. I think the SBT/mag blend would sound quite good together. Just not sure if it's as simple as I'm thinking, or knowing my luck probably not.
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Old 11-27-2016, 03:29 PM
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Since UST's and SBT's are both piezo's with the same impedance range it should work fine to snip the UST and solder up an SBT in its place.
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Old 11-27-2016, 03:52 PM
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That's what I was hoping but didn't figure I'd be that lucky. Needed someone with more technical knowledge than me to confirm. Thanks!
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