Do not attempt to file the notches on Ghost saddles!. The piezo crystal is only 0.040" below the notch, and if you expose the pickup, the string will short it out and won't work anymore. Furthermore, the pickup has been positioned optimally in relati
With our insulated Teflon wires (on all electric saddles) the blue side is ground and the silver side is signal. With our black shielded wires (on all acoustic saddles) the bare is ground and the white is signal.
Our acoustic saddles are conductive, yet they do not short the piezo pickup due to the specific internal manufacturing.
You can replace the LR Baggs saddles on your Strat-style Variax bridge with Graph Tech ghost saddles (PN-8000-00). These are made of String Saver composite material and house pickups similar to those with your Variax. Unfortunately, we do not offer s
The Variax saddles are electrically compatible with the ghost preamp and MIDI interface, but they lack the plug-in-style connectors on our modular system. To overcome this, order the BE-0511-00 extension wiring harness and solder wires from your Vari
Some Graph Tech customers have tried this with a simple Y-connection and found that the two electronic circuits interfere with each other if they're both powered on. If either is shut off, the other one works fine, so yes, you can run one or the othe
Piezo comes from the Greek word that means “to squeeze.” Piezo pickups are formed from a crystal or ceramic material, which produces electricity when stressed. They function by the piezo element, which senses the small changes in pressure as the stri