Ibanez LE 520 Lonestar test drive with new Fishman pickup
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 พ.ย. 2018
- Sound test of a 1986 Ibanez LE 520 Lonestar hybrid electric-acoustic guitar. The original passive piezo has been replaced with a Fishman AG pickup and a Powerchip preamp.
Guitar recorded direct to DAW through a Yamaha THR10C, flat channel with a hall reverb. - เพลง
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I love mine!!! I chose it over a Taylor T5. You can use the Ibanez piezo and just MAKE your own linear op amp chip preamp yourself, and if you want to go whole hog Full Monte crazy, you can even use a twin LM324 op amp chip equalizer and have a 10 band or in my case a double 5 band EQ preset, one 5 band for each pickup. Preset it to your tastes, and bury it inside the guitar's access hole. These guitars are NOT quite hollow. They are egg crate braced all the way through with a block under the bridge and of course the usual neck & heel blocks. I used an OPA op amp for gain into the LM324 and then a 5534 out with up to 100dB gain and nice high Z output.
Cool! I like the two 5 band eq idea..
Great guitar. I like mine very much 😉
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Hi JeeWee , I really enjoyed the video , guitar sounds great and as you said it's a big improvement on the original passive piezo. I bought mine new in 1986... it took me ages to find it and I had to have a bank loan equivalent at the time as I too couldn't afford the full cash price. I would love to do this modification to my guitar. Just wondering if you had to replace the bridge and also where does the battery go ? Many thanks Hugh
I routed a battery compartment in the back. I could use the original bridge, but I trimmed it down a bit, because of high action.
do you use electric or acoustic strings ? exactly which fishman piezo did you convert it with ? obviously you are using a guitar amp , but could you set this up with acoustic strings , new fishman piezo and acoustic amp , or the opposite set up for rock and humbucker ? these hybrid systems always confused me , thank you
I installed the Fisman Pro-AG1-125, combined with the Powerchip preamp.
I have been trying both types of strings, but the magnetic pickup works best with electric strings. The piezo doesn't mind too much what kind I use, as I amplify the guitar anyways.
This works well with an acoustic amp (I use an AER), especially in a jazz or singer-songwriter context, but it rocks out quite good as well, Americana style. I like to use it with a Fender or Vox type amp on the edge of breakup. The piezo adds some really nice bite and articulation. Don't look for heavy metal high gain stuff though.
This is not the sound everybody uses, but it is very useful and useable indeed.
I have managed to pick up one of these in Scotland, a bit rough around edges, lovely guitar but piezo very crackly and intermittent. I would like to do same with piezo as you have and wondering if you can answer a couple of questions for me
The power chip preamp you installed does it require a battery
Is there an alternative passive piezo that would match the magnetic one that is already fitted
Do you have any idea what pots can be fitted to replace the original two volume and one tone
I am an enthusiastic amateur and would like to do job myself
Thanks in advance for any help
Hi Pat, thanx for your comment.
I experienced exactly the same with the eighties pickup, so I upgraded to a brand new Fishman AG125 Pickup straight away.
The whole thing about the power chip is that it matches the impedance of the magnetic pickup with the piezo. There is no other way to match that with a passive piezo pickup. If you use a passive piezo, you will always experience a severe volume dip around 60/40 blend volumes.
The preamp does require a battery, so I routed a battery cavity in the back, next to the control cavity.
I used regular 500k audio pots for both the piezo and the magnetic pickup volume, and a 500k linear pot for the magnetic tone. I did not install a tone pot for the piezo, but you could use a stacked pot to control both pickups at the same time.
One word of advice: the soldering of the preamp is going to be finicky. I left this to a professional and did all the other work myself.
@@JeeWeeDonkers thankyou for help
Hi my friend! I,d like to ask...I have an Ibanez lonestar LE420DV. MY question..what strings do I have to put..10,11,12??? What the manufactory suggest..
I think it originally came with tens, but I used elevens mostly. Just make sure you use electric strings, because acoustic strings don't balance well through the magnetic pickup.
@@JeeWeeDonkers thanks a lot!!
@@JeeWeeDonkers one more thing..what strings would be better,medium,light..or ...whatever.I use to play this guitar as a rhythm guitar..
@@KLEON5001 I think tens or elevens. It can handle those without any problem.
I think it's a cool guitar, indeed ahead of its time conceptually. I could see it working well in a modern jazz setting. Do you have a link to that picture of Frank Boeijen with it?
Indeed it performs very well in exactly that context.
Unfortunately I don't have that picture, apart from my personal memory. Still looking for it though...
@@JeeWeeDonkers I called Ibanez and their rep told me maybe 250 of those made it into the USA. His numbers indicated 238 shipped. How many went to Europe, Asia, or stayed in Japan? Who knows. I have little finish blushing inside the cutaway. Aside from that it's a pretty clean example of this model.
@@Satchmoeddie I was told there were 450 made world wide.
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I can buy One of this Guitars from a friend of mine, he want 50-100€, how much is evaluated this Guitar?
That's a steal. In the vintage market they go between €500-700
@@JeeWeeDonkersi have Say the same to my friend but he don't know how to sell a Guitar online and he don't have space at home for hold it, thanks for replying anyway.
@@JeeWeeDonkers then he thinks he can't sell it well due to two dents on the body, but they don't look too serious in the picture, if the guitar sounds good I think its value remains high despite these
@@renebasso.v4301 I agree. Vintage guitars have dents, that's reality. If the damage is not too bad, the value will not be that low. 50-100 is ridiculous.
I used mine for all the guitars tracked in this song here:
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Very nice!!
@@JeeWeeDonkers Thanks! It was a long time coming. My Lonestar needed a major neck reset before I could use it.