Re: More piezo elements under the top = more natural transduction
Hmmm... I'm not so sure. Personally, I have found two transducers more than adequate on mando family instruments, and indeed, on most acoustic guitars. As you increase the number of transducers you also increase the potential for timing and phase incoherence between the units (the transducers do not receive exactly the same signal at exactly the same time - the difference is miniscule, but detectable on precision measuring instruments). There is also the issue of increasing the voltage peaks as the total transducer surface area increases, and this can end up sounding worse, rather than better, as many preamps start to have problems with the large peak-to-peak outputs that result.
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