Mickguard Posted September 27, 2005 Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 Speaking of cool onboard mods... I was watching Pete Townsend monkey with his switch...and I thought, hey wouldn't it be cool to mount a separate 'tremolo switch'? A little on-off mini switch would do it (I love the look of miniswitches)...it'd basically act as a kill switch --turning on and off the pickups as fast as you want to switch it. To get fancy, I'd wire only one pickup to the switch (the neck pickups, since I usually play on the bridge)---that way the tremolo switch will only flutter that pickup--while the bridge pickups sounds normal... Or even fancier still, a secondary selector switch that controls which pickup or pickups get tremolo'd Best part --no batteries! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MI Guitars Posted September 27, 2005 Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 Interesteing Idea but I dont think it would work too well. I have individual mini switches for each pickup on one of my guitars and I just tried it and I really couldnt notice a difference when switching one pickup on and off. If I switch the phase over on the neck pickup it works a little better cause it cuts out some of the frequencies when both pickups are engaged. It doesnt at all sound like a a tremelo pedal. However the same guitar does have a master kill switch and you can do some "tremeloish" sounding stuff with that. Tom Morello style for instance.. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickguard Posted September 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2005 Interesteing Idea but I dont think it would work too well. I have individual mini switches for each pickup on one of my guitars and I just tried it and I really couldnt notice a difference when switching one pickup on and off. ← Hmm...suppose the neck pickup can be filtered to be very bassy --you'd think you'd be able to add some throb under the bridge sound? Anyway, just another one of the flood of ideas I get at 2 in the morning... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ansil Posted September 28, 2005 Report Share Posted September 28, 2005 well if you wanted a very cheap tremolo that you didnt'have to do manually. 555 timer led/ldr 1cap 2resistor 1 pot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmxican47 Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Speaking of cool onboard mods... I was watching Pete Townsend monkey with his switch...and I thought, hey wouldn't it be cool to mount a separate 'tremolo switch'? A little on-off mini switch would do it (I love the look of miniswitches)...it'd basically act as a kill switch --turning on and off the pickups as fast as you want to switch it. To get fancy, I'd wire only one pickup to the switch (the neck pickups, since I usually play on the bridge)---that way the tremolo switch will only flutter that pickup--while the bridge pickups sounds normal... Or even fancier still, a secondary selector switch that controls which pickup or pickups get tremolo'd Best part --no batteries! ← I was thinking about doing something like this, but with a momentary button. The idea would be to get the Tom Morello type effect, but the button seems like it might be a little easier to manage and if placed in the right spot could look pretty sharp. Any input? Thanks Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Marossy Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 (edited) Put this in your guitar! http://www.diyguitarist.com/PDF_Files/EA-TremoloPCB.pdf You could use a DPDT toggle switch to bypass it. EDIT: You could build it smaller of a piece of perfboard to make it more guitar friendly. Edited December 6, 2005 by Paul Marossy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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