Ground conect the bridge

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Hi,last night,i instaled a piezo bridge in a bass.
Is all metal,and the points that contact the strings,are metal to.
Should i conect the bridge to the ground?the bass has also magnetic pickups

[Chiliwailer]

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Hi,last night,i instaled a piezo bridge in a bass.
Is all metal,and the points that contact the strings,are metal to.
Should i conect the bridge to the ground?the bass has also magnetic pickups
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I would, my understanding is that it's safer and you should get less noise when taking hands off the strings, especially if passive.

[ikay]

+1 I have a hipshot piezo bridge in one of mine and that's grounded.

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Thank you for the answers guys.
One more.Is it possible to take out of phase signal?
Its not my goal,just wanna feel sure that i will not do any stupid thing

[ikay]

Yes it is possible for the piezo signal to be out of phase with the mag pickup. The blended piezo+mag sound will usually sound somewhat thin and weedy if they're out of phase. Most piezo buffer circuits have a phase reversal switch to cater for this. How are you mixing the piezo and mag signals, do you have some sort of buffer circuit or preamp onboard?

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I dont know if i mix them or if i will use one at a time.
The good thing is that i have a mixing console,so i can mix them with that.
Just experimenting still.
One option is to use a blend control after piezos vol-tone circuit.
I dont know if it will work

[ikay]

Piezos and mag pups generally don't mix too well unless they're buffered but if you're using separate outputs that gets round that problem. Have fun experimenting!

[Jabba_the_gut]

John East does a module for blending mag and Piezo ( MPM-01 I think). Cheers

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Thanks guys