I’m in the process of creating a tactile ambient/noise box inspired by folkteks illuminist garden.
I picked up some piezos pickups on eBay. But now realise I’m not sure whether I should wire them in series or parallel. Gut says parallel. Anyone offer any thoughts?
From this page:
“In hooking up multiple piezos, you have a choice of whether to join them in series or in parallel. Because of the electrical nature of piezos, series connection yields poor results; parallel is the way to go. In practice this means: connect the hot lead from each of the piezos in the group to a common wire for the hot side of the output, and connect the ground from each peizo to a common ground wire.”
Cool. I’ll give that a whirl. Thanks.
Also, photos of the build, please!!
Will do! For 20 characters.
This was the video that I watched that made me realise I could make one. I may just send it into my OP1 or perhaps into a delay then reverb and see what happens.
I also stumbled on a thread on MW (sh!) that someone claimed to have repaired one and its basically a peizo, wires and a butchered behringer delay with “shoddy” workmanship inside.
Nice!
You definitely gave me an idea about building my own ambient machine box during xmas holidays.
Just ordered some piezos… 
How did you mount / tune the strings?
Are you using some kind of preamp for the piezos?
What are thos pots and switches on the box?
The video isn’t mine, just one I stumbled upon in YouTube. I haven’t started yet! I’m not sure if I will copy the box in the video. Depends on the size of box I make I suppose. I’m going to try wiring the piezos directly to the jack then connect to my reverb and delay pedals. From there I’ll either plug into my amp, or use a virtual amp inside live.
Oh yeah. I forgot to post here as I put it in he goals2017 thread. Found a wooded crafting box, attached a bunch of guitar strings, soldered to a guitar jack and job done. Very low output, so ran it through a 1W tube amp head I have, then through reverb and delay. Sounds nice. In the summer LCRP ( think) my samples were made using it.
I’ll try and dig out some sounds after work.
