another update; new saddle came in today and imediately removed the old one and the under saddle PU and bammm, there was that great acoustic sound again, completely fell in love with that sound so definetly bone saddle and [u]never no more[/u] an under saddle piezo pick up, now waiting for the transducer to come in and see what that will bring for sound with the acoustic amp part of the Katana

Herman