Jump to content

JimRayden

Established Member
  • Posts

    200
  • Joined

  • Last visited

About JimRayden

JimRayden's Achievements

Collaborator

Collaborator (7/14)

  • First Post
  • Collaborator
  • Conversation Starter
  • Week One Done
  • One Month Later

Recent Badges

0

Reputation

  1. Love the shape. Les Paul goes cubist. --------- Jimbo
  2. I was wondering if the gorgeus metal pickup cover fitted for a P-bass. I know there are also some specially made for a p-bass but the jazz bass ones are cheaper. Given the pickup differences, I'm suspecting they're quite different. Anyone tried? ------- Jimbo
  3. I wonder how the factory change will affect the quality... --------- Jimbo
  4. Oh goodie! I'm gonna be the first to buy this thingy. And the next post is reply number 1000. but I got POST number 1000 -------------- Jimbo
  5. I copied this post to my notepad and am starting to try the tricks right away. I think the major problem is that my driver wire goes with all the wires and even passes the bridge pickup. I'll try taking the wire externally. The guitar will look like Civil War afterwards but at least it'll be working. Oh boy, here's my chance to use duct tape on my guitar. (I've always wanted to have a reason for that. ) Thanks to you too, Pete. Too bad that your posts are too long to post. But I'm certainly taking notes from all of them. ---------------- Jimbo
  6. Lovekraft, in harmonic mode, I get high pitched oscillation, yes. In normal mode, i get low pitched buzzing oscillation. Or was it vice versa... ---------- Jimbo
  7. So yea, I built it like HB -> Sparkle boost -> poweramp of Ruby. I must say, I'm getting some good stuff going on now. I have the sustain control between the boost and the 386 section, with the Sparkle gain hard wired to max. One bad though... I can only turn the sustain knob up to the limit of infinite feedback. If I get too much further than that, it starts oscillating. I see two solutions: either try to trim the gains of Sparkle boost and poweramp to the optimal clipping/power balance, or totally isolate the sustainer circuirity from the signal one. What would stop the oscillation? I need to start working on it because we're hitting a studio in a few weeks and I'd be really happy to complete this gadget before that. The good news are that it looks very promising as it is. --------- Jimbo
  8. Now, Pete mentioned something about having a different preamp for his 386 amp for more gain. I'm still not getting satisfactory results but I'm getting closer and closer. I thought of rising gain capability on the Ruby. How to do that, what resistors to swap? ----------- Jimbo
  9. Wouldn't the circuit's input impedance connected in parallel with the pickup interfere with something?... I mean, that would have the effect of non-true bypass switching. --------- Jimbo
  10. BTW, you need some kind of a buffer to send one pickup's signal to the Ruby and output? ---------- Jimbo
  11. The coils go the same way, the magnetic polarity is different. That's what I know at least. ----------- Jimbo
  12. Alright, news. Went out and bought 0,2mm wire. Oh joy, it works better on low strings and does its thing on highs too. But it does it weak. The strings sustain but still don't pass the infinity mark. Maybe it's because I'm using 1/2 of a humbucker to drive the ruby. Does that give too little output? I don't think so... It could also be because I'm using rather long wires to connect pots, jack, perfboard, the driver, etc. What do you think? ----------- Jimbo
  13. Thanks, Digideus. I'll run the wire from the bridge pickup. Thanks Drak, I'm not a lightning bolt type of player. I'm more of a wire-through-bridge-pickup-ring type of guitarist. --------- Jimbo
  14. Of course, the other choice is take the wire there externally. I think I'll do that since my guitar's external looks messed up enough already (because of many attempts to install the sustainer. ) ------------ Jimbo
  15. The grounding wire of TOM bridge of my ESP broke off. Will I have to take out the mounting... things... I don't know what you call them. You know the things that are placed in the hole in wood to screw the TOM into. It's lots of work but I don't see any other way. ------------ Jimbo
×
×
  • Create New...