Alright this is directed to anybody but I bet Mr.PSW could answer this no no time flat. (I hope I got your attention?)
I got lost in the many pages of this thread. So I have some REALLY BASIC questions that anyone can answer:
1. I understand the sustainer completely. Now how is the entire unit wired to the guitar itself? I'm just asking for a basic block schematic. Is it wired directly to output?...
2. I have 2 humbuckers in the guitar currently and want to keep that. I'm thinkin of doing a swimmingpool rout on the thing, moving the neck pick up to the middle position, and putting the sustainer in a humbucker cover and placing that where the neck p/u used to be. Am I still going to get uncontrollable feedback if it is wound to 8 ohms?Would having less ohms fix this? OR... what happens when the sustainer is in the middle? I like the idea of keeping the bridge and neck humbuckers as they are and then having the sustainer in the middle. I'm not interested in tearing apart half of the neck pickup to put the sustainer in there.
3. Say I love the sound of feedback. I'm a Sonic Youth monger. Is there anyway I can add a 'booster' in front of the sustainer so as to increase the ohms past 8, and hopefully get some wickedly loud, instantaneous feedback? Somthing like sustainer -> feedbacker
4. What does slanting the sustainer slightly (like a Fender bridge p/u) do?
5. If I use the magnet in the core, do I still need a magnet underneath? Does it matter if I orienent it so that the N side of the verticle core magnet attracts the S Side of the horizontal base magnet, and so on?
EDIT: Alright I have a proposition for my own question. (Number 3).
Okay so you say the sustainer is only 3 mm thick. What if I had some extra windings underneath attatched to a switch? So when I flick on the switch, it adds those windings to the original number (in series) thus amping up the ohms? Sustainer becames Feedbacker!
EDIT:
What if you wired the Sustainer hot (like in the 10-12 ohm range) and then put a potentiometer in the circuit? Normally you'd want the sustainer down a bit, around 5-7, but when you wanted more feedback you'd just crank the knob to 10....
What value pot would I use then?