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Location: Caribou, ME | Could be some energy loss in the plastic shims. |
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Location: Michigan | Originally posted by FlySig:
Recently I added a second shim under the piezo saddle on tha Adamas and noticed a slight loss in crispness. When there is time I will replace the shims with a bone one to see if it helps. At least on paper it seems that multiple plastic shims which don't support the entire length of the saddle would be less than ideal. I think you are right to go with just one shim insted of multiples but to tell you the truth I could not tell the difference between bone and plastic but then again my saddle is the Ovation plastic gizmo with the gell and crystals so take that for what it is worth. |
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Location: Wooster, Ohio | Pins can make more of a difference than you think. You can even change the tone of one string by using a different material. On carbon fiber guitars the low E sometimes needs a kick and guys will put a brass pin just on that string. If you use a material that is total different you can at least hear the change a pin can make. For me I am not sure the change was a good one. Went back to tusq.
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Location: Omaha, NE | IMHO, quality tone (as it relates to saddles) is about 95% proper fit and about 5% material.
What happens is that players with factory, "parts-bin" saddles (which are very often Tusq these days, and which are invariably just a smidge on the loose side so they go in without taking time for final fitting) replace those saddles with something else...BUT in the process they carefully hone the saddle and achieve a superior fit.
Then they declare "Bone (or FWI, or EI or whatever) is superior to Tusq!"
No. A well fit saddle is superior to a parts-bin fit saddle.
JMHO, YMMV, etc.
Also in the FWIW, JMHO, YMMV category, I've never played a thinline pickup Ovation that I thought was nearly as good as an OPP Ovation. The thinlines just sound, well, "thin" to me...too edgy and brittle. |
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Location: kansas | I added a TUSQ saddle to my Celebrity and retained the original piezo pickups.
I took a TUSQ blank and filed a rounded groove in the bottom of the blank to accommodate the wire that connects the individual piezos together. This left about a 1/16" of the saddle to rest on the front portion of the piezos and about the same in the back. I eliminated all of the existing shims with the addition of the TUSQ saddle that I custom filed to my desired string height. I added a TUSQ nut while I was at it. The added clarity, tone, sustain and volume made it worth my while... plus I can still plug in! |
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Ovations with bone bridges
