Demo: Piezo vs. Q-Tuners

[McCap]

Inspired by another thread here's a little comparison between a Piezo pickup, a Q-Tuner Medium Z Neck pickup and Q-Tuner High Z Bridge pickup.
All PUs in the same guitar.


All played:
1. Direct into Sound card
2. Into a Tech21 Blonde pedal
3. Into a Tech21 British pedal


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Cheers

 

[simulclass83]

Thanks for the demo dude!
Piezo sounds scooped while the bridge q tuner has a more open quality imo.

 

[Explorer]

Excellent demo! Rep/thanked and liked!

To my ears, the Q-tuner neck edged out the piezo as an acoustic pickups, but I was surprised at how great the Q-tuners sounded through the British pedal.

I have a Q-tuner neck pickup, but moved too late to get a bridge. The fact that Q-tuner feels the new design is a step forward, makes me hold off on buying the new Alumi-Djents until a bit later in the year....

 

[McCap]

Thanks for the rep!

Well, hearing it live the piezo has less body, less bass and more brittle highs (you know the really high stuff like fingers gliding over strings etc.). But Q-Tuners can sound quite acousticy. So much so, that I've been thinking about taking the piezo out of the guitar and putting in a state variable Filter instead.

 

[Mukersman]

So are they out of business or what? I guess it hasn't been a full year since they shut down, but still, a year seems like a long time to be out of the game.