hi guys, don't know where else to post this, so i figured i'd give it a shot here.
recently i built a doubleneck sg style kit i got on evil bay. nice axe, believe it or not, plays great, sounds great...but it's got one problem that's got me stumped electronically.
each neck's electronics work fine, and i've got it well - balanced output/tone wise from neck to bridge on both necks, and even from neck to neck.
but when i put both necks on in parallel, that's when the prob is hitting....it's...
I have a strat that I have wired with on/off switches for each pickup and a master volume, master tone, and a master passive overdrive for the 3 knobs. I have had this setup for a while, but I have never been impressed with the passive overdrive. Any suggestions on what I should use that knob for instead? I have been searching all over the internet, but most places say to make it a blend pot for one of the pickups. I really dont need that cuz I can already use any pickup combination that I want.
Me and a friend were thinking about building some of these for fun. They look pretty simple, but I was wondering about the second coil underneath. Anybody have any information on that? Gut shots? Oh, I was also wondering what kind of material the magnets were made out of. Any info would be great. Thanks.
I don't know if this is the right part of the forum, but here goes.
I have a Line6 Variax 500 guitar. I've had it for 7-8 years or so, but havn't used it much the last 4-5 years. It has the problem (like many other 500's) that it switches on and off in a rythmic patern. If seen others call it pulsing elsewhere. I've tried several things, but can't seem to fix it. I was wondering if any of you guys have some experience with fixing these guitars.
A few months ago I heard of a suggested modification for an unused tone knob in an electric guitar, but haven't tried it until now, and I think I was able to come up with an awesome sound, so I will share it with you.
The suggested mod was to put a single 1N34A Germanium diode in place of the tone cap on a tone knob to clip the signal as the knob was turned down... I thought it was a good idea, so I ran with it. Instead of using Germanium diodes I put a clipper pair of 1N4148's on the opposite...
I'm trying to think of an onboard preamp for an e-bass that would have a normal 2-band EQ (Baxandall?), that would have the treble pot work as a passive tone also. I use my bass mostly in passive mode, so I'd mostly use the active mode only when I have a bad buffer in front of me or I need a bass boost.
Every time I try to think this thru I run in a wall. Is it possible at all? The active EQ should ofcourse be scaled up in order to get a 500k lin or 1M log pot for the treble. I was even...
Just got one of these in at my local shop and she needs some attention. These guitars were made from '63 - '67, and had a built in organ effect . Dual pickup in a body style similar to a Jaguar, four pots, a mute, 4 switches on the upper horn and one by the pup controls. Evidently someone in the past had some problems with the organ effect part of the circuit and clipped the wiring to the switches leaving just the pup controls wired. I would like to find some kind of diagram for the switch...
In the Messenger Fuzz thread a Japanese blog links to a Bloom Collection where I saw a familiar image. It was an old patent illustration. I had seen it before when trying to research this aluminum guitar neck I bought at a thrift store for $3.00. The patent address is just a few miles away from where I live.
I always wondered if it was a Messenger as the headstock would have formed an M before it got hacked. Now I see that no known Messenger has an M headstock. Anyway, just thought I'd share....
I'm a Guitar player who hotrods guitars for myself and friends... A bass player I know wants me to rewire/hotrod a P-bass hybrid for him. The control plate he has, has two holes, we're adding a jazz bass pickup in the bridge position, and thinking about using two concentric pots for a volume and tone for each pickup. My question is... stock value caps or go bigger say .068 uf or 0.1uf ??? Thoughts?
for the past few weeks i've been thinking about a different kind of tone circuit for a project guitar. Essentially, the circuit inside the guitar would lead from the pickup (a Filtertron with L of 3.5H and DCR 15.37k), through a switch that selects from a few different capacitor values in series (to vary the resonant peak). I'd put a simple buffer before the volume control to keep it's resistance from interacting with the resonant circuit (and maybe add a variable resistor between the negative...
i ordered a warmoth body last week, and i have a local builder making me a custom neck. im not much of a single coil guy, but i had a g&l legacy at one point and i loved the tone controls especially compared to the standard fender setup...
however i cant find alot of information about how to do it... anyone have any schematics/advice/ thoughts/whatever?
So, instead of coil-tapping to get that particular tone, you could essentially get it (hum canceling as well, and no volume drop) by having an inductor on a pot to ground... right?
Recently ran across a strat, IIRC early 80's vintage, that has this modular pickup system installed. Pups can be swapped out from the front of the guitar without removing strings, and is around a 5-10 second procedure. Pups available (with this guitar :D ) are a dual Lace Red sensor , Duncan HB, 57 PAF and a standard single coil. The pots are push pull for coil tapping on the buckers. This system is not your average enthusiast hack job, but has a bit of thought behind it. I am just trying to...
Hi!
I am currently rebuilding an old Supro Belmont guitar, but I don't have any information regarding the wiring...
I do have 1 picture of what is going on underneath the pickguard, but it isn't very clear. If anyone can help me out, I'd be extremely grateful!
Here's the picture a buddy of mine got off ebay, it's from an original Belmont:
So I wired a guitar up and all was well except no output from the bridge pickup.
It was giving a reading of 0 on the multimeter, the other two were reading about 5.6k. When I disconnected them from the ground (back of the pot) I am able to get a reading (also 5.6k) from the bridge.
All pickup ground wires are soldered together with another wire, and that wire is soldered to ground. So why is it since they are all sharing the same ground that this happens with the bridge pickup and not...
I stayed up late one night and reverse engineered this switch from the information on the website It uses a 2p6t switch to get a total of 16 different sounds from a strat, including all parallel, series and out of phase sounds. Check out the website for the chart of sounds and how the switch works. I put it in one of my old Strats and it works great.
Here's the wiring for the switch. Bridge + is the white wire from the bridge pickup. Bridge - is the black wire.
I've got a pretty nice Ibanez baritone that's my main guitar now for a couple years. I love this thing to death, but the tone knob is a horrid piece of crap that doesn't do jack shit, really.
I looked inside and seems there's a real small polyester in there, like .022 or smaller. Sackless and weak!
I want the good stuff. What should I replace this thing with? When I turn the tone knob, I want my freqs to change, like evaporate, disappear, go buh bye, etc.
i've been looking for a cheap tele lately, and i just got back from a local music store that had an 80's korean squier with toploaded strings. it plays fantastic, even better IHMO than the 1300$ G&L they had there. question is- are there any drawbacks to the top loading? i've heard perceived string tension is lower, which could be good or bad, that it's easier for the strings to slip out of the saddles, that there really isn't much of a difference, some people swear them off though....
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