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| I'm considering adding a Prestige 330 (from JJBELECTRONICS) piezo bridge plate pickup to my Ovation Elite LX. With that access port on the guitar's back doing so would be extremely easy. I've already turned a very inexpensive Great Divide dreadnought into a beautiful sounding powerhouse instrument with that pickup. Question I have is, does any one know of some kind of switch that I could use to select between the normal Ovation OP-PRO that is now in the guitar and the new one? If it was small enough I could even access the switch through one of the larger inlay holes in the guitar's top. These are easy to accessible from the back. Getting fancy I could conceive of some method to select either pickup alone or even the two in series or in parallel. |
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Location: Pueblo West, CO | What are you switching?
IOW, are you wanting the change where the jack is pointing so that with the switch in one position it's using the the stock OP-Pro and in the other position it's using the Prestige 330?
Or, are you wanting to switch which pickup the OP-Pro is using? |
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| I don't see why not. If both preamps are independent, all you would need is an on/on switch prior to the output jack. However, battery usage comes into play. Perhaps you could install a battery on/off switch as well. If, however, you are using the same preamp and different pickups, I think an on/on switch prior to the preamp is in order. Don't hold me to any of this, though. |
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Location: SoCal | You can use a 3-way (lever or mini-toggle) to select which pickup (bridge/both/Prestige) is being fed to the OP-Pro. Running the pickups parallel provides a sonic option. Running them in series... experiment and tell me what happens. I never tried it, but just due to the properties of piezo crystals, I don't think it would work, or if it did, the result would not be musical. |
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Switch for selecting either of two pickups ??