krazyderek Posted October 19, 2003 Report Posted October 19, 2003 lol this is just fun to look at, at 4 am it's almost like a puzzly hehehehe Quote
Page_Master Posted October 19, 2003 Report Posted October 19, 2003 sup D my friend wants a guitar with four pick ups with active and passive all mixed. by the time he finished telling me this i called him a ****ing tool. i just thought i would say that, but i am not attacking you in anyway. Page. Quote
guitar_ed Posted October 19, 2003 Report Posted October 19, 2003 Hey KD, There may be another way to take advantage of this many PUPs, and that is 1 vol knob per PUP and no switches. That is the approach I am taking with my BeatTele. 3 PUPs, 3 vols, 1 tone. No switch. Just seem somehow easier to me. Guitar Ed Quote
westhemann Posted October 19, 2003 Report Posted October 19, 2003 personally i would run mini on/off toggles to each pickup.they take up less space than 4 volume knobs Quote
krazyderek Posted October 19, 2003 Author Report Posted October 19, 2003 hmm... depends what you're switching from and to, also switch's can be faster then turning a volume knob.... i guess it's all preference, but your idea lends it's self to having 2 pickups on full power and the third turned down a bit..... which would be pretty cool, also giving you more selections instead of just on/off... you'd have 3/4 on 1/2 on 1/4 on... off personaly, i'd have a couple split coil options, like a coil from 4 and pu 2, or a coil from 4 and a coil from 1 in series ( which happens to be my fav shredding position at the moment ) Quote
Jehle Posted October 20, 2003 Report Posted October 20, 2003 I watched Steve play this guitar at a guitar clinic a few years ago. He's constantly futzing with the controls as he plays. I can't imagine that this switch configuration is optimum (at least not if I were playing that guitar) but it works for Steve. The man's a monster. Quote
krazyderek Posted October 20, 2003 Author Report Posted October 20, 2003 heh, ya i watched the video he did on tumeni notes and a coupel of the songs, he's like "tumeni notes, is easy we just break it down like this" so he plays a couple sections slow, then joins them together.... so i'm like ya ok i can do that, then he's like "and after you've practiced it enough just gradualy speed it up" lol i kept up for like the first 2 seconds after that he just keeps going faster and faster till he plays the intro and "normal" speed and he's just staring at the camera with this grin like "keep trying" lol.... Quote
Speedy McFeely Posted October 20, 2003 Report Posted October 20, 2003 with as many different genres of music steve morse covers, he only really has two options, take a slew of guitars, or have ernie ball make him one that can do everything he needs, but is more complex than calculous. Quote
STAHLER Posted October 21, 2003 Report Posted October 21, 2003 I have had a play on one of these guitars and you can get some amazing sound for them. The hard part is trying to remember how to get the sound back with all them switches lol Quote
arrowheadguitars Posted November 4, 2003 Report Posted November 4, 2003 I wired up a three pickup Tele with three on/off/on mini toggles so you could have any of the pickups on at any time - each was wired so you could have on/off/phase reverse except for the bridge pickup which was on/off/on-with a resistor in line for a subtle change in tone. The middle pickup was a SD Little '59 and had a push/push vol pot to add coil splitting too. The only slight drawback of this system is that it is possible to have no pickups on at all if you're not paying attention Paul Quote
zandro Posted November 4, 2003 Report Posted November 4, 2003 Complicated controls are something I'll never understand. I mean, if you like them, that's great .. but even 5-way switching is more than I need. A 3-way switch and two humbuckers is where it's at! Quote
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