jasonBoulevard Posted March 28, 2007 Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 So ive had a look-alike strat and a low cost ibanez rg series guitar for a few years now and i got into guitar modifications...and ill be working on both of these guitars soon Plans: strat - new paint job - metallic blue to black sunburst, custom headstock logo with similar color scheme - bridge position humbucker conversion (seymour duncan sh11b, 2 single coil custom EMG) - white peraloid pickguard (modified for switches) - custom wiring, switches for phasing and series/parallel ibanez (my favorite mod concept!) - new paint - black on white EVH style striping - mount a custom wired 5 watt amplifier inside the guitar - mount 2 speakers on the guitar (4 ohm series; one mid/full 3-4", one tweeter 2") - mount within guitar custom wired distortion circuit (gain,vol,lo,mid,hi pots) - concentric pots/knobs for pickup vol/tone and distortion vol/gain - necessary switches for distortion/amp/power etc - will be slightly heavy due to massive amounts of things'n'stuff in the guitar...but it was light to begin with and ill be routing out more wood to make big enough cavities for it progress:....all the thinking is done lol, but im still open to suggestions...oh and ive sanded down the strat body for routing/painting pictures to come...as well as links to schematics and stuff im using MTFBWU -jase Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonBoulevard Posted March 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 http://www.redcircuits.com/Page80.htm - amplifier schematic http://www.rabbathrecordings.com/Distortion.html - jh1 distortion schematic/info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crafty Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 You'll need an EMG PA-2 for the Duncan pickup, and a Pi2 if you want to put the middle pickup out-of-phase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonBoulevard Posted March 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 You'll need an EMG PA-2 for the Duncan pickup, and a Pi2 if you want to put the middle pickup out-of-phase. whats the advantage to using that pickup phasing switcher as opposed to just switching the polarity using a regular dpdt switch? i see theres a circuit board on there...so its definitely more advanced than just swapping the wires Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crafty Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 Something about the preamp design on the EMG pickup doesn't like a standard phase switching scheme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suicidecustom Posted March 30, 2007 Report Share Posted March 30, 2007 (edited) it is due to the fact that you do not have access to the coil wires like you do on a reg passive pickup. the coil wires run to the preamp and you have positive and negative (9volt battery) and preamp output (hot) wires coming from the pickup. so you can see it is impossible to reverse the phase of it. Edited March 30, 2007 by suicidecustom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonBoulevard Posted March 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2007 so...if i just had the normal leads, one hot and one ground, from a single coil pickup the phase switch would be fine without the switch preamp deal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wickerwolf Posted March 30, 2007 Report Share Posted March 30, 2007 ibanez (my favorite mod concept!) guitar - mount within guitar custom wired distortion circuit (gain,vol,lo,mid,hi pots) - concentric pots/knobs for pickup vol/tone and distortion vol/gain - necessary switches for distortion MTFBWU -jase Very intrested in seeing how you do with this as im going to be putting a distortion circuit into my next project. Once the current projects finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suicidecustom Posted March 30, 2007 Report Share Posted March 30, 2007 (edited) so...if i just had the normal leads, one hot and one ground, from a single coil pickup the phase switch would be fine without the switch preamp deal a passive pickup yes. the emg pi2 will only work with emg pickups according to their site Edited March 30, 2007 by suicidecustom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonBoulevard Posted April 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 so...if i just had the normal leads, one hot and one ground, from a single coil pickup the phase switch would be fine without the switch preamp deal a passive pickup yes. the emg pi2 will only work with emg pickups according to their site okay, well im not exactly sure what i have, but i know its a passive pickup, and the casing says EMG the guitar was made by AXL and they say they have EMG-built custom pickups...? they sound nice enough to keep a couple Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suicidecustom Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 check EMG to see if you can find them. as far as the pickups they sell to the public if all it says is EMG in the bottom right corner it will be active. if it says EMG HZ it is passive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crafty Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 ...or if there's no battery in the guitar, they're passive. If it's an AXL, it's probably the EMG Select pickups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suicidecustom Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 (edited) cheched their web site. they will be passive Edited April 6, 2007 by suicidecustom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonBoulevard Posted April 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 cheched their web site. they will be passive thanks, i figured as much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonBoulevard Posted May 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 theres the semi loaded pickguard for the strat featuring: -double pickup switches - inspired by guitarnuts.com's double barrel wiring -2 push-pull knobs for killswitch(mute) and one for switching mid pickup phasing way cool looking white pearloid pickguard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 That's way more switches than I would ever need... but sweet nonetheless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblaty Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 Seems to me like Musicman Steve Morse Sig. electronics... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonBoulevard Posted May 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2007 (edited) naw the musicman sig has something else funky going on...odd mid pickup position deal...theres no second switch either Edited May 8, 2007 by jasonBoulevard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonBoulevard Posted June 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2007 http://hs.facebook.com/album.php?aid=20004...p;id=1226700100 guitar is FINISHED, i wimped out on a few things aka complicated paint job, and there it is, check out pics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted June 23, 2007 Report Share Posted June 23, 2007 Congrats on the great paint job! Looks like it came out very nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retro_10s Posted June 23, 2007 Report Share Posted June 23, 2007 lol well that was the quickest project i've ever seen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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