So you put a stereo cable into the mono output to use just the magnetic pickups? How do you know if the cable is stereo or mono (pardon the newb question but I'm saving up for this guitar and it seems a tad confusing)?
now we wanna hear a Mayer-Petrucci mashup: "No such Glasgow KIss" XD
besides,sick guitar a very good sounding piezo, plus the 7th strings adds some very lovelya nd rich sub- and sovraharmonics to the E7+9 chords you played
A laughed a bit that so many focused only in the way how you say piezo... At least I enjoyed the video :D Really helpful, and now I know about piexo pickups, Thanks!
@ScalyUnicorn /watch?v=DXqsYCyx6BE go to 4:08. I say it the same way John Petrucci does. If that's wrong then I guess he must be wrong as well. Sure there's the proper Greek way of saying it but what does it matter.
@ScalyUnicorn Wait, when I was pronouncing it "PEE-ZO" people told me I was wrong and mocked me! ;-) To hell with the damn pickups at this point - I'm calling them "Grandpa's Guitar Simulators"... ;-D
@ScalyUnicorn moron, he pronounce it right. that is the american way of pronouncing it. if you are in greece then pronounce it the way they pronounce it. when you are in northern america then pronounce it how americans pronounce it.
how could it be aweful if it has a greater range than a mag pickup? I've heard of the quacks but I'll bet one can actually hear the fuckin chords they play through the disto, correct me if I'm wrong i just wanna hear every fuckin note in the chord clearly with distortion as I fuckin hate dick sucking power chords, nor do I want two guitars to have to harmonize to play what one could have with clarity if it WERE clean, that is all.
@stathagranak both the stock pickups and jp's pickups have a very tight distorted sound that keeps a lot of those harmonics. and yea, what scanme said about the piezo is right. on a side note, you really should chill out. there's no reason you should be angry at a particular musical device.
Does a stereo sound make your guitar sound better? In other terms, what does a stereosetup ( for example the stereo cabel ) contribute to the suond of the guitar?
@stathagranak the point of having a piezo is to get that acoustic sound quality. so why would you use a distortion for it? of course it will still sound but i bet it will be awful compare to a magnetic pick up.
the sound you had at 5:49 sounds amazing id love to see what that would sound like with a little distortion and tone all the way up i think it would make a great blues sound but with very little distortion
Isn't that last connection thing a little pointless with the stereo AND mono cables connected. Because when both jacks are connected its no use plugging stereo to the stereo since it doesn't do any thing different than using mono.
@BOOLsheet A mixpot is part of the adjustments you can make to the preamp in the guitar. There's a treble pot, bass pot, and the mix pot - which controls the volume of the piezo. An example would be if you were playing a guitar solo that needs to be louder so you turn that channel up or your guitar up. Then when you need to switch to the piezo, it won't lose the volume level, or you can choose to make it softer so that you don't need to adjust the amp channels.
@waynesworld91 cool, so if i have a regular line 6 amp, and one of these guitars, which configuration should i use if i want to be able to use everything, and only have the regular monster instrument cables?
@waynesworld91 ; Hi there,im thinking buy one, but my question is; How its work when you want to use a wireless system and use the same amp for the piezo and magnetic pickups. All wiresles cable i know are mono??
@LessthanJake14 "Pie-zoh" is perfectly acceptable . It was Pie-zoh long before somebody made a two-syllable word into a three-syllable word. Check your word entomology if you don't believe me.
@moucon Do you call an Italian dinner pie a pihh-zuhh? Do you you like ah-kapelloe music? Do you get french benefits at your job? Do you like lobster biskay? Does Santa climb down your chimbley? Do you buy your honey a valentime's day card? Do you get books at the lieberry? Do you eat chimmie-chain-gahs? If you do, then having a slice of pie-zo is perfectly fine.
hey thnx , i see thers on pod , i cant use both cables .but yes ur right,on the output , i have two (stereo and mono) . i have seen petrucci always connect both cables for stereo and mono. so although i dont need always both, its just become irritating if unable to connect something hehe. my amps r not really huge . but anyway, i will get this mystic dream finish one, as soon as i have funds for it. thanks again.
@C0BHC11 Cool, but you must remember! John Petrucci has 3 Mesa/Boogies in one rack alone, and he has a bunch of different things that he's going through that result in his amazing tone. Just because he does it, doesn't mean you have to! You can really mess around any way you like...I personally like sometimes having my magnetics going through a distortion amp and having another cable going through a standard Yorkville amp [as seen in this video] for my clean or just using one Piezo output!
hey i was wondering , if connect both stereo and mono output cable on the guitar , how do i connect both cables on my pedal ? theres only one input port on my pod .
@C0BHC11 Hmm I see. Does the POD have two outputs? I would just recommend using one stereo cable and plugging it into the one input and having it come out of two outputs perhaps. You don't have to always have two cables plugged in, especially if you can't find a source at the other end. You can also think of possibly plugging one end into the POD and another into the amp [for more than one channel] or another amp/mixer? What did you have in mind once you've connected both to the POD?
@mojoefly I support this decision 100%! Haha it's well worth the money! Took me 4 full years to save up and take action to get it and I've never been happier with the feel and versatility of any other guitar!
Awesome a video on this. I had no idea as that diagram is damn confusing. Getting the JPX 6 in August, probably. Out of curiosity, should I just connect 2 mono cables all the time then? I play mostly metal music, but if and when I could get certain tones out of the clean channel of my amp with the Piezo, I suppose I might as well, plus the mix pot is still active. Seems like I might as well, for the most variety with as little time wasted as possible. Thanks, by the way.
@ArrrPirate666 For metal it's not going to really make a huge difference if you use the piezo, and it definitely isn't going to sound too much better. If you do however think that you'll be changing to a clean sound [via channel switching pedal, for example] then I wouldn't suggest always having two cables plugged in at the same time. If you just put one stereo cable or even a mono cable through the Piezo that should do the job, and you're still able to switch between the two.
Hey just one qustion how do you make those 2 ouputs into one, i mean in order to plug in only one. i meam it might me a stupid question but i'm kind of lost. hahah sorry bro.
@knguro There are two outputs on the guitar, as you can see. There's no way of making it one output if that's what you're wondering haha, you just have to use one cable and that's it. You don't always have to have two cables in, just because there are two outputs. Look through the video for the times I plug in only one cable to see what it might sound like, or even try it yourself with either a mono/stereo cable! And don't worry if it's a stupid question haha that's what I'm here for!
@slash5155 Not too confusing at all! If you're going to use a lot of clean just mess around with different cables and settings [just like I did with different cable setups in this video]. Also at the back of the guitar, try using more treble/bass to really get that sound that you like.
@slash5155 It makes a slight difference, not for the better though. Piezo is obviously meant for an acoustic/clean tone. If you're probably going to get this guitar, the stock DiMarzio pickups are good enough for a metal tone. Check out some of my other videos, I'm sure you'll see what I mean. On top of that, I'm using a terrible amp that I'm trying to get upgraded to something a lot better, so my tone can be a LOT better.
@belt432 The stereo cable is just a quarter inch to a quarter inch. An easy way to determine if your cable is stereo or mono is just to look at the tip of it. If you see one little "ring" at either end, that means you have a mono cable [mono = one]. If you have two "rings," your cable is a stereo. There's no Y cable used in this video.
@belt432 to be honest, I actually don't know the brand of the stereo cable. The two mono cables were Planet Waves, but the stereo cable is my brother's and I'm not too sure. However, I've used a stereo Yorkville cable [Canada based company], and found that it's about the same quality of what I had with the cable that I used in this video. Hope this helps!
@blackpoopshadowfear it was $2100+ tax and such, it came up to 2400 in total [Canadian]. Call your music stores though! I called every store up to New York and I found that a lot of music stores really jack up their prices [not to name any]. But one store was around 2400 BEFORE tax, and another was 2800 in total. I also talked to someone from MusicMan and heard that the price had been raised up this year.
dude this makes my next guitar purchase hard cause that petrucci guitar sounds awesome, but i am thinking about going to an 8 string ibanez, or even a rc7 dean (the chaeper one haha) but this seems like the most versitile!! awesome vid
Who gives a fuck about how it's pronounced? Get over yourselves.
thesectarianstate 2 weeks ago
pie-zo you say it like pie, and zo, he said it right
SoAwesomelyFunny 3 weeks ago
The Pie-ay-zo/Pee-ay-zo debate RAGES ON!
JoeyRapps1 4 weeks ago
Wow, the piezo sounds amazing
trinixia 1 month ago
would it work on an electric ukelele that im making? i want to make it the main pickup, would that work?
clasicational 1 month ago
pee-aye-zo are you austistic?
connorcarciofini 2 months ago
omg its pronounced piett♀b‼§zao--♀↑7┐ zaozyu-Ó.....
smaragdboa 2 months ago
It's actually spelled Pizza.
WoWintosh 2 months ago
Good, informative demo and nice playing! :)
The piezo debate is silly...who cares(aside from geeks and trolls)?
Everyone watching this knows what you're talking about.
Now if you had mispronounced tomato...
HoodleDooker 3 months ago
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Let me ask you one thing. Do you connected a stereo cable into a mono input of your amp? Or is it a stereo amp?
juamposo 3 months ago
what song is that your playing?
nimilc2002 3 months ago
did you turn your crunch lab around? because in the JP7 it's reversed.
ltayl1 3 months ago
Its prounounced depending where you live on this giant orb.
spanky2964 4 months ago
Oh wait I meant a mono cable into a stereo output not the only way around.
Whackooyzero 4 months ago
So you put a stereo cable into the mono output to use just the magnetic pickups? How do you know if the cable is stereo or mono (pardon the newb question but I'm saving up for this guitar and it seems a tad confusing)?
Whackooyzero 4 months ago
now we wanna hear a Mayer-Petrucci mashup: "No such Glasgow KIss" XD
besides,sick guitar a very good sounding piezo, plus the 7th strings adds some very lovelya nd rich sub- and sovraharmonics to the E7+9 chords you played
awfulguitarplucker 4 months ago
A laughed a bit that so many focused only in the way how you say piezo... At least I enjoyed the video :D Really helpful, and now I know about piexo pickups, Thanks!
FinnFlame 5 months ago
pie
piezo
tie
fried
dried
science
fiery
Admittedly you could make a similar list using the long e sound. But pee-zoh sounds kinda wuss.
picbuck 5 months ago
JP7? You bastard. XD
gnryeah 5 months ago
you could make a DT song out of all the notes he just played
andrewfebbraro004 5 months ago
i stopped watching this when he said piezo wrong.
ScalyUnicorn 6 months ago
@ScalyUnicorn /watch?v=DXqsYCyx6BE go to 4:08. I say it the same way John Petrucci does. If that's wrong then I guess he must be wrong as well. Sure there's the proper Greek way of saying it but what does it matter.
waynesworld91 6 months ago 9
@waynesworld91 if he says it that way he would be wrong. its pronounced the way its spelled. pee aye zoh
JoshStraitiff 4 months ago
@waynesworld91 He's no god and he is wrong
pdawiec 2 months ago
@ScalyUnicorn Wait, when I was pronouncing it "PEE-ZO" people told me I was wrong and mocked me! ;-) To hell with the damn pickups at this point - I'm calling them "Grandpa's Guitar Simulators"... ;-D
scarred2112 5 months ago
@ScalyUnicorn moron, he pronounce it right. that is the american way of pronouncing it. if you are in greece then pronounce it the way they pronounce it. when you are in northern america then pronounce it how americans pronounce it.
scanme214 5 months ago
@ScalyUnicorn JP himself says it the same way. your argument is invalid.
MrDudeface23 4 months ago
Dude you are awesome.. nice lecture
dewalwalers 6 months ago
One in white with a gold bridge......OMG! I would trade my Gibson right now!
Nickdiaublow 6 months ago
@Nickdiaublow they dont make them like that it's a sig guitar :p
510shredder 6 months ago
@Nickdiaublow Yes they do. The guy from born of osiris does. (Even though i hate the band)
Nickdiaublow 6 months ago
how could it be aweful if it has a greater range than a mag pickup? I've heard of the quacks but I'll bet one can actually hear the fuckin chords they play through the disto, correct me if I'm wrong i just wanna hear every fuckin note in the chord clearly with distortion as I fuckin hate dick sucking power chords, nor do I want two guitars to have to harmonize to play what one could have with clarity if it WERE clean, that is all.
stathagranak 6 months ago
@stathagranak both the stock pickups and jp's pickups have a very tight distorted sound that keeps a lot of those harmonics. and yea, what scanme said about the piezo is right. on a side note, you really should chill out. there's no reason you should be angry at a particular musical device.
510shredder 6 months ago
It's pronounced pizza
peet-za
TacoBot5000 6 months ago 4
@LessthanJake14 @iamrichlol So how is it pronounced?
emilowich 7 months ago
Does a stereo sound make your guitar sound better? In other terms, what does a stereosetup ( for example the stereo cabel ) contribute to the suond of the guitar?
Joostieboy 8 months ago
man,can you use the piezo with a mono cable?
tanky666hate 8 months ago
can one use these with distortion? would it sound as good as mag pickups with disto?
stathagranak 9 months ago
@stathagranak the point of having a piezo is to get that acoustic sound quality. so why would you use a distortion for it? of course it will still sound but i bet it will be awful compare to a magnetic pick up.
scanme214 6 months ago
two out puts? pardon me if i'm ignorant but where is the practicality in that?
keglimp 9 months ago
can i use the piazo and the magnetics pickups and swich them when i use only one electric guitar amp?? or i need the two cable and two amp?
MrAwsomeShit 9 months ago
I HEAR YOU MAYER
FranklyMyDarling 9 months ago
the fact that you played count of tuscany makes me very happy right now
Stratocoaster08 9 months ago
the sound you had at 5:49 sounds amazing id love to see what that would sound like with a little distortion and tone all the way up i think it would make a great blues sound but with very little distortion
cobravince 10 months ago
PIEso =D
darusgn 10 months ago
Isn't that last connection thing a little pointless with the stereo AND mono cables connected. Because when both jacks are connected its no use plugging stereo to the stereo since it doesn't do any thing different than using mono.
Zhaggysfaction 10 months ago
i am looking for a stereo instrument/guitar cable. which one are you using in this video?
ac4minus3 11 months ago
I like "OK SO":D
MrGiostepanishvili 11 months ago
I'd like another slice of pie-zo for dessert! It's pee-eight-zo or pee-ay-zo.
Otherwise, good vid.
tdelamont 11 months ago
i'm really interested in the piezo pickup with overdrive/distortion. do you have that video up somewhere?
ac4minus3 11 months ago
thanks man thanks for explain.i love this guitar i buy this very soon
mydarklife666 11 months ago
The Count of Tuscany :O !
Ibanez3293 11 months ago
hmm, John Mayer, but better: Dream Theater - The Count of Tuscany @ 5:28 =)
AGLkiller 1 year ago
This guitar sounds like absolute shit.
Carthsgtr 1 year ago
@Carthsgtr Then you obviously have only judged it from this ONE video....This is one of the best sounding guitars ever made.
TheWhocares233 11 months ago
@TheWhocares233
That's an outrageous claim.
Carthsgtr 11 months ago
what the hell is a mixpot
BOOLsheet 1 year ago
@BOOLsheet A mixpot is part of the adjustments you can make to the preamp in the guitar. There's a treble pot, bass pot, and the mix pot - which controls the volume of the piezo. An example would be if you were playing a guitar solo that needs to be louder so you turn that channel up or your guitar up. Then when you need to switch to the piezo, it won't lose the volume level, or you can choose to make it softer so that you don't need to adjust the amp channels.
waynesworld91 1 year ago
@waynesworld91 cool, so if i have a regular line 6 amp, and one of these guitars, which configuration should i use if i want to be able to use everything, and only have the regular monster instrument cables?
BOOLsheet 1 year ago
@waynesworld91 ; Hi there,im thinking buy one, but my question is; How its work when you want to use a wireless system and use the same amp for the piezo and magnetic pickups. All wiresles cable i know are mono??
bagusfrank 1 month ago
john mayer sucks shit
TheNecrosisx 1 year ago
So how can I tell if my cable is stereo or mono?
WallyVaio 1 year ago
@WallyVaio If the cable has two rings at the tip [usually two black rings around], it's stereo. If it has only one, it's mono.
waynesworld91 1 year ago
lol PYZO!
gui94 1 year ago
actually that note in Canada is right. oooh i love Canada
Fanis753 1 year ago
John Mayer on a Petrucci guitar? unexpected
mattlittler89 1 year ago
@mattlittler89 yeah! i was thinkin the same: SUDDENDLY,JOHN MAYER EVERYWHERE!
awfulguitarplucker 1 year ago
Yayy for Jon Petrucci!!
BradyKenniston7895 1 year ago
It's Pee-aye-zo.
LessthanJake14 1 year ago 28
@LessthanJake14 "Pie-zoh" is perfectly acceptable . It was Pie-zoh long before somebody made a two-syllable word into a three-syllable word. Check your word entomology if you don't believe me.
moucon 1 year ago
@moucon Do you call an Italian dinner pie a pihh-zuhh? Do you you like ah-kapelloe music? Do you get french benefits at your job? Do you like lobster biskay? Does Santa climb down your chimbley? Do you buy your honey a valentime's day card? Do you get books at the lieberry? Do you eat chimmie-chain-gahs? If you do, then having a slice of pie-zo is perfectly fine.
tdelamont 11 months ago
@LessthanJake14
In Scandinavia its Pee ET so.
Nevigo 3 months ago
Its pronounced pee et so
iamrichlol 1 year ago 28
@iamrichlol Only if you're British. Americans say it like he said in the video.
virfive 1 month ago
hey thnx , i see thers on pod , i cant use both cables .but yes ur right,on the output , i have two (stereo and mono) . i have seen petrucci always connect both cables for stereo and mono. so although i dont need always both, its just become irritating if unable to connect something hehe. my amps r not really huge . but anyway, i will get this mystic dream finish one, as soon as i have funds for it. thanks again.
C0BHC11 1 year ago
@C0BHC11 Cool, but you must remember! John Petrucci has 3 Mesa/Boogies in one rack alone, and he has a bunch of different things that he's going through that result in his amazing tone. Just because he does it, doesn't mean you have to! You can really mess around any way you like...I personally like sometimes having my magnetics going through a distortion amp and having another cable going through a standard Yorkville amp [as seen in this video] for my clean or just using one Piezo output!
waynesworld91 1 year ago
@waynesworld91 where did you buy your guitar?
Dtm540 1 year ago
@Dtm540 A Canadian music store called Long & McQuade.
waynesworld91 1 year ago 2
@Dtm540 However, I did have to order the guitar straight from the company through the music store.
waynesworld91 1 year ago
hey i was wondering , if connect both stereo and mono output cable on the guitar , how do i connect both cables on my pedal ? theres only one input port on my pod .
please explain .
C0BHC11 1 year ago
@C0BHC11 Hmm I see. Does the POD have two outputs? I would just recommend using one stereo cable and plugging it into the one input and having it come out of two outputs perhaps. You don't have to always have two cables plugged in, especially if you can't find a source at the other end. You can also think of possibly plugging one end into the POD and another into the amp [for more than one channel] or another amp/mixer? What did you have in mind once you've connected both to the POD?
waynesworld91 1 year ago
im thingking of selling my american fender strat to add to my funds for this.
mojoefly 1 year ago
@mojoefly I support this decision 100%! Haha it's well worth the money! Took me 4 full years to save up and take action to get it and I've never been happier with the feel and versatility of any other guitar!
waynesworld91 1 year ago
@mojoefly heeey this is the right decision man. dont think about it. i hope u already get the guitar after four months
Fanis753 1 year ago
Awesome a video on this. I had no idea as that diagram is damn confusing. Getting the JPX 6 in August, probably. Out of curiosity, should I just connect 2 mono cables all the time then? I play mostly metal music, but if and when I could get certain tones out of the clean channel of my amp with the Piezo, I suppose I might as well, plus the mix pot is still active. Seems like I might as well, for the most variety with as little time wasted as possible. Thanks, by the way.
ArrrPirate666 1 year ago
@ArrrPirate666 For metal it's not going to really make a huge difference if you use the piezo, and it definitely isn't going to sound too much better. If you do however think that you'll be changing to a clean sound [via channel switching pedal, for example] then I wouldn't suggest always having two cables plugged in at the same time. If you just put one stereo cable or even a mono cable through the Piezo that should do the job, and you're still able to switch between the two.
waynesworld91 1 year ago
Hey just one qustion how do you make those 2 ouputs into one, i mean in order to plug in only one. i meam it might me a stupid question but i'm kind of lost. hahah sorry bro.
knguro 1 year ago
@knguro There are two outputs on the guitar, as you can see. There's no way of making it one output if that's what you're wondering haha, you just have to use one cable and that's it. You don't always have to have two cables in, just because there are two outputs. Look through the video for the times I plug in only one cable to see what it might sound like, or even try it yourself with either a mono/stereo cable! And don't worry if it's a stupid question haha that's what I'm here for!
waynesworld91 1 year ago
thanks for the video i cant wait for my petrucci lol now i kinda feel like im going to be cinfused when i get it lol
slash5155 1 year ago
@slash5155 Not too confusing at all! If you're going to use a lot of clean just mess around with different cables and settings [just like I did with different cable setups in this video]. Also at the back of the guitar, try using more treble/bass to really get that sound that you like.
waynesworld91 1 year ago
@waynesworld91 i guess so......does the piezo effect the distorted lead channels? because im more of a metal player
slash5155 1 year ago
@slash5155 It makes a slight difference, not for the better though. Piezo is obviously meant for an acoustic/clean tone. If you're probably going to get this guitar, the stock DiMarzio pickups are good enough for a metal tone. Check out some of my other videos, I'm sure you'll see what I mean. On top of that, I'm using a terrible amp that I'm trying to get upgraded to something a lot better, so my tone can be a LOT better.
waynesworld91 1 year ago
OK still trying to figure this out. The stereo cable is it a y cable with 3 inputs or just the 2 input one like the mono?
belt432 1 year ago
@belt432 The stereo cable is just a quarter inch to a quarter inch. An easy way to determine if your cable is stereo or mono is just to look at the tip of it. If you see one little "ring" at either end, that means you have a mono cable [mono = one]. If you have two "rings," your cable is a stereo. There's no Y cable used in this video.
waynesworld91 1 year ago
Very nice ,what brand stereo cable are you using?
belt432 1 year ago
@belt432 to be honest, I actually don't know the brand of the stereo cable. The two mono cables were Planet Waves, but the stereo cable is my brother's and I'm not too sure. However, I've used a stereo Yorkville cable [Canada based company], and found that it's about the same quality of what I had with the cable that I used in this video. Hope this helps!
waynesworld91 1 year ago
this is the best review by far.. Hey how much did you pay for yours?
blackpoopshadowfear 1 year ago
@blackpoopshadowfear it was $2100+ tax and such, it came up to 2400 in total [Canadian]. Call your music stores though! I called every store up to New York and I found that a lot of music stores really jack up their prices [not to name any]. But one store was around 2400 BEFORE tax, and another was 2800 in total. I also talked to someone from MusicMan and heard that the price had been raised up this year.
waynesworld91 1 year ago
ahh very helpful vid! the next guitar im planning on getting is the same exact JP7..the 7 string world is calling out to me =P
DaShortyJ 1 year ago
wow dude, thanks a lot for this vid! I'm waiting for my mystic dream 7 string, and now I have something to watch while I wait.
MyLifeChanger 1 year ago
great explanation. I just got one and this helped a lot.
hotguitar81 1 year ago
thanks man, that really helped!
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Bigwillyjhonson 2 years ago
Hi there, great vid. I'm in the search for a jp7 myself and was somewhat mystified by the different outputs and their uses. Great explanation!
Out of curiosity, what brand/gauge strings do you use on your JP7?
ibanezfan66 2 years ago
Hey...I'm actually using the stock strings. They're the Ernie Ball custom RPS 10-56. Thanks for watching!
waynesworld91 2 years ago
dude this makes my next guitar purchase hard cause that petrucci guitar sounds awesome, but i am thinking about going to an 8 string ibanez, or even a rc7 dean (the chaeper one haha) but this seems like the most versitile!! awesome vid
therealgtarbeast666 2 years ago