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Okay. I'll just make a short KZbin and link it to this. I'll let you know when it's up . . . hopefully within 24 hours. And if I remember I'll post the link here also. It won't be a long clip . . .

Big thank you. Not necessary. I got the your schematic from a laptop. Doesn't really solve my problem. I'm combining Seymour Duncan's diagram and Fishman's. The Fishman requires a spst on/off/on switch. The switch is confusing me. I bought a Les Paul husk, already drilled for the Fishman, and 3 volumes, 3 tones, plus 3 mini switch holes. One for spdt I already mentioned. I have 2 dpdt for coil splits, and phase switch. Hoping someone with more knowledge could look over. Your diagram makes sense. But I can use. Truly appreciate all your help.

If you want stereo output or a separate channel for the Fishman, then you would need a second signal out - for which a stereo cable would work. But I didn't go that route. I wired the + out from the Fishman to the + of the guitar's existing jack (tip) and the - wire to the - of the jack (sleeve). (After running the + signal through the small volume pot with switch to switch it in and out.) The nice thing about doing this is that you can try it out at the simplest level to see how you like it - for example, with no switch or volume pot at all, just a straight add-on signal to the jack. If you're satisfied with that, then you don't need to bother with extra holes and wiring for the volume pot/switch. Depending on how your coil pickups are wired, if you're not happy at first (or if you're just curious) you can try reversing the polarity of the Fishman wire leads and see if that helps with the sound. Probably before you reinstall the backing plate, to make it easier.

@@canonfather thank you very much, I truly appreciate your help. I'm happy if I can wire with existing pickups, and use a toggle switch that'll allow only stock pickups, or only Fishman, or both. Fishman didn't answer me about needing a stereo cable. Have a great day

Did you include the pre amp ?

Never even tried it. There was enough output from the Fishman bridge to work passively. No battery needed. @@DoubleSixx

I hate to keep bothering you. Fishman keep sending different wiring diagrams. I'm not an electrician but I can follow a picture. I'm having difficulty seeing what you've done. I drew a diagram out. Seymour Duncan said it would work but they didn't know about the powerbridge. When I added the Fishman diagram, Fishman did wouldn't work. Fishman sent me new diagram without dpdt on/off/on. Do you have a diagram you can share please ? Or check mine ? Any help would be a huge help. Big thanx regardless. Happy New Year

You are right. The piezo is wired in parallel - so I only needed to take the plus wire from the piezo and send it to the signal wire from the other pickups that go to the guitar jack tip connection. The potentiometer/switch interrupts that signal from the piezo to the common signal wire - but as I mentioned earlier, it is not necessary, and the only thing I did with it in the video was for on-off to show the difference with-without the piezo signal added to the output signal from the other pickups.

Yes, it has a potentiometer, but I don't use it - it turned out to be unnecessary, and the only reason I even use the on-off switch is to demonstrate the piezo signal. Otherwise, that switch is not needed at all. I can tell you that the wires from the piezo are connected in parallel to to the original existing jack. That is, the plus wire from the piezo is soldered to the tip connector on the jack, and the ground wire from the piezo is soldered to the sleeve/ground of the jack. All other adjustments to sound I make using the original controls, which I did not alter in any way - all the original wiring was left in place. If for some reason you still want a potentiometer/volume control for the piezo after you have tried it without one, you can add one later by soldering the plus wire from the piezo to the potentiometer, and then a jumper wire from the potentiometer to the tip/plus connector on the guitar's original mono jack. At least, that's what I did.

That is a simple push-button on-off switch. Push on, push off. I inserted it in the wiring going to the piezo pick-up. It isn't necessary for the pick-up to work, but it is nice to be able to "cut" the piezo signal when you don't want the high-end response. It doesn't have a knob on the end of it so that it fits better on the panel with the other controls.

I'm not sure where you would find one today . . . perhaps at a guitar store? I bought mine years ago, before Radio Shack went out of business.

Yes, this guitar currently is set up with a mono jack. It could be done with a stereo if that was your wish - and then the piezo signal could be handled all by itself and the on-off switch would be unnecessary.

Sorry - I don't have tabs for this. I don't read or write them for banjo. But I can tell you that the left hand only uses the index and middle fingers - fingering two strings at a time, and they start at the octave (or close to it, anyway) and move down for the verse, and back up for the chorus. (Except there are no words, so they're not really a verse and chorus, just a part A and part B.) On the way down, they finger the lowest and third lowest strings, and on the way up they finger the middle two (of the four that aren't the drone.)

Yes - I put a high-impedance pot (about 1 Meg, I think) in-line with the powerbridge lead. It also has an on-off switch built into the pot as a push-action, which you probably noticed when I did the switching a few times.

There are plenty of good size fishermen - and they tell me they get nice trout. But those could be nothing more than fish tales.

The powerbridge is in parallel to the main wiring, all output to the tip of a mono cable. The chorus pedal adds a lot precisely because of the additional high frequency response of the powerbridge. With only the magnetic pickups, the sound is mostly mushy-muddy.