Piezo Bridge Pickup Upgraded Version Guitar Tremolo Bridge Saddles with Piezo Pickup 10.5mm String Spacing for Strat or Tele Electric Guitar Chrome

I use piezo bridges on all my electrics. 3 have Brenners (a one piece / compensated bridge for strats / teles). They have great volume when run passively, and just need little tweaking with a floor preamp. But, I have been wanting a 6 saddle system, tho the price of ghost / fishman systems is prohibitive. So this caught my eye for under 40 bucks. I installed it as a passive system (no onboard preamp in guitar). I had to strip all six wires (which are pretty stout - a good thing). Then I had to solder them all to a single wire (cuz they aren't long enough to get to the jack). Then I had to bunch them together with shrink tube (for neatness sake), and then shrink tube over the 6 to 1 connection. THEN I only had to instal them, and solder the single wire to the ring on a TRS jack. *You do not need a ground wire to the jack as long as your bridge is grounded. I put this in a strat style guitar with an amply grounded bridge. The result: The output is about half that of the Brenners. But, it's pretty balanced, and is easily compensated for with an active floor preamp (I use - a Caline 10 band EQ into a Sonicake active volume pedal into a tiny Behringer 4 channel mixer (active). The mixer allows me to combine piezo / mag signals (mags run through an amp sim) adjust volume levels, and send one signal to the PA. It works phenomenally well. So, all in all, with a couple tweaks of the sliders on the EQ and a volume boost on the mixer, it sounds as good as any of my other piezo bridges. AND I have individually adjustable saddles! AND they look great, too. The gold piezo element really pops. Also, the saddles feel really nice. The set screws recess nicely. Very smooth. Guitar is intonated perfectly. I really hope they keep making these!Edit: I also put these in a Sonic Strat build, with a hard tail, top loader bridge. I wasn't sure how it would work in that application, but it worked really well. See pics. Same process, only in this case, the 6 wires would've been long enough to reach the jack, but they wouldn't fit through the hole from the control cavity to the jack cavity. So rather than ream it out, I just soldered them to a single wire again. To get into the cavity from the bridge, I just used the narrow end of a file to cut halfway through the back of the pickguard to create a trough deep enough for the wires to fit between the body and the pickguard. Since the pickguard was so close to the bridge plate, I also had to be make a small indent. but it looks really nice. It wouldn't be visible at all, except the filing removed the gold backing from the pickguard. But it's negligible, and very secure, and wouldn't be an issue on a standard pickguard. Again, hope this helps.Edit: Installed a third set in a IYV hollow body tele thing. Again, the sound quality is good. BUT... I've had two saddles fail out of three sets. When the first one failed, I messaged the seller, and they immediately responded and mailed a whole new set of 6. Which was good, because I replaced the bad one, and then had 5 in reserve. And I had to use one of them on the IYV. So, great customer service. And still good for the price. But in case this happens to you... Each failed in a different way. On the white strat, the saddle under the B string began making an intermittent, loud popping noise when I would pick hard. That was easy to diagnose. BUT on the IYV, ALL 6 saddles ceased working because of a fault in ONE of the saddles. I don't know why this happens with piezo saddles, but I had it happen before with an expensive Fishman system and knew what to look for. Here's how to diagnose it. Plug the guitar in and turn the volume up (on the piezos). Then begin loosening the tension on each string one by one. When the tension is all the way off, strum the strings (the 5 that have tension). If no sound, tighten the string back up and move to the next one. Eventually, you will find the bad saddle when the 5 saddles that have full string tension make noise. Replace that saddle, and you're good to go.

These are great! I am amazed at the quality both structural and sonically. I wired mine directly to the output, strung my electric with light acoustic strings and they sound stellar. I’ve played fishman power bridge and graph tech ghost saddles. These sound equal! Plenty of output without an preamp. (But I do run it through my Boss VE8 to had effects.) Only reason I didn’t give 5 stars is the wires are not long enough so I had to solder all of them to one larger wire to reach the output.

I bought these piezos for a budget Telecaster build, using a $100 clearance Squier Bullet Telecaster from Guitar Center. Since it was my first time with piezos, I didn't want to invest in the Graph Tech Ghost system to keep the price of the build down.Using a microphone preamp with the piezos is recommended, and grounding the bridge helps reduce noise, even with active pickups (I have an EMG 81 also installed on the guitar).Drilling the bridge is recommended when installing the piezos. I used a 5/64 Milwaukee black oxide bit and used a straight edge to line up the holes. Overall it was fairly easy to install.

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Easy to install with no hassle.Audio output is nice and clear with piezo preamp.Mechanical dimensions are well described precisely.

Installed these saddles on a parts Strat. Ran all the wires under the pickguard (via a channel I had to create in the guard) and soldered to the ring connection on a stereo jack. I’ll probably rewire this to a push-pull volume pot (in the last tone control spot) as I have most of my others. Output is about average for a passive piezo saddle. Plugged into a preamp with acoustic IRs (like Fishman Aura), and it sounds like a credible acoustic and can match moline with the magnetics. Much like LR Baggs saddles at a way better price.

These have brass at the string contact and while they sound great through a preamp they also give a good attack unlike ghost bridges