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ansil

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  1. it is ususally a pot wired to ground. with a stereo plug. best guess depending on zoom's wiring. they have had different ones over the years. is to take a 100k pot and put aligator clips on a stereo cable and there you go. it will give you your available posistion
  2. there are many many kinds of plexiglass out there. it also depends on how you want it to light up. if you are using the type of leds in cellphones you can mount them sideways and it will glow all the way around but it will take a few more leds but heck they are like two cents each depending on color. one row each way would be less than fifty cents. look on hackaday theres a guy there who did his backlight on a old pda device that way.
  3. try a smaller tank. there are tons of them out there. measure the impedance of the tank itself find something reasonably close and you are in the park. personally i rip out the tanks and get me delay pedal or something in there and use the reverb knob as my delay mix knob. but thats me or you can chain several tanks together i have been frowned on many a times for daisy chaining 4 or more together
  4. granted i haven't tried a hex preamp with it however if you want a smaller package to work with. you can try this dual version for all the tweakers out there. i found a nifty little idea if you take one of these and flip it upside down its roughly the same pinout as a dual opamp. with a secondary card and a couple of spare parts you can mod a tubescreamer with one of these. little bit of creative liscensing though have fun. ed
  5. if you get some surface mount leds you could encase them in the plexiglass
  6. just a quick reply for a better voltage source. i have a an old dell laptop battery pack and the cells are nearly 3A each at aprox 4v i built a small charging system for it from afromans site. and have used these things for my led flashlights and man they just cook i have only charged the thing like once. since i am running between 5-20 leds at a time i think that might be something for you to look into. i recently got into lithium packs because a buddy of mine (here we go another friend of ansil's lol) owns his own cellphone repair shop. he is good at what he does i am good at what i do so i have been shoehorning lithium cells into everything from xbox and tv remotes to old rc cars at the goodwill seeing as i am an avid junker i managed to put 6 batteries into a 20led light its a little odd but it charges in under 2 hours off an old cellphone charger and will last for a good two weeks with playing with it everyday. the size of the cells i am using are maybe 20% longer than a 9v but the same basic thickness and 20% skinnier. two of these things could really help you out. heck one could power the whole thing for a bit. hope that helps you out.
  7. if you got the juice to run it you can double up the chip. would the chip handle that?? and how would i do it?? realize this has been sometime ago but completely forgot to say i had been buying little practice amps that had the lm1875 in it. and i would recreate the same output stage they had and apply it to a negative input and bridge the output of theamps together. keep in mind though i had to put in an extra voltage tranny. but it works like a champ
  8. perhaps you should try a linear slide pot hooked up externally to see if you like the sound. i have done this before with a low k resistance and a old pot from a mixing board. it worked nice. also something to look into if you are tricky. you can find dual fader pots or you could couple the dc froma small battery to it and simply decouple the audio signal to it and have led's to let you know the level of each pickup based on the brightness of the led. my old guitar used a fiveway switch and rewiring it to have the h/s/h on one side of the switch i drilled holes for 3mm green leds. used the same current limiting resistor and had them light up in respect to the pickups position. ie neck on one led neck and middle two leds middle middle led etc. took less than hour to do counting all the rewiring. its a great thing to do to a guitar that has a fiveway and does not use the other side to manipulate tone controls like a strat style guitar does.
  9. look at hackaday.com there are some princeton guys who made a really effective 60hz filter with overtone filters. ed
  10. it about the same as a jcm 800 but for the life of me why would you want to take a high gain inverted signal and then at the second stage add a non inverted straight signal to it.??? i have tried this and never liked the results myself just wondering.
  11. depending on the size of them not much i would say. most of the amps back in those days had 50c5's or similar line operated tubes. so its usually less than 200 volts dc. although a bit extreme in a pinch i have used the disposable camera capacitors in a pinch. that was way over kill on the capacaitance level. alot of the older amps will pass some voltage on the caps. some like to say this is vintage and if its a few volts to leave it be. i am from the school of a cap blocks dc if it doesn't tis broken. i am downloading a schematic for this which is avialable many places such as http://www.freeinfosociety.com/electronics...vertone1482.pdf k i was wrong on which amp i thought this was. it would cosst under 20usd if you have a ce account. or you can use their sister site. this will give you the can you need. ed
  12. you know there are other options. to this that you can do. if you use the proper switch. you could use a 500k pot so the humbucker would still have a killer tone. wire the second side of the switch with 500k resistor. essentially the humbucker will drop down to 250k when you engage it with a single coil. but other wise it will be normal. the single coils would be on the second side and the output would feed across a 500k resistor to ground. if this is a little off sounding i will drop a schematic when i get home. ciao or email me i will send it out. ok i can't post it java error email me i got it drawn
  13. led ldr with a dual pot one way to get started for the all the way down is off i will see if i can dig around although currently not online much
  14. if you got the juice to run it you can double up the chip.
  15. http://www.morleypedals.com/pwa-iies.pdf its a twin t style wah, not an inductor wah. it is nothing like the bad horsie wah. which imho is a much better wah, if you remove all the cmos switching and buffer stages that are completely useless. the one i rebuilt based off the actual section years ago sounds just like the real thing without all the extra crap. morley will actually give you an inductor [well they did me] cause i asked them what value mine was and it was bad play with c5 and c6
  16. i would say its the power stage, personally and its easy to check i fyou are running stereo. but if its the preamp itself, i would probally suggest fubar
  17. hmm do you have a pic. does the four connector lead into a standard three connector?? if not what was he using it on, a cb radio? those had four conductors. i have never seen one that didint' have a three prong end ie the adaptor cord . if thats the case you just find which prong goes to which end of the adaptor.
  18. you know if you add in the whole push pull trip you can wire it to get both neck and bridge with the pull of a knob in any selection. as for the single coil you do need some circuitry but you can rob the parts off a dead motherboard modem or whatever, its like six parts. practically nill current draw. a simple buffer stage will suffice. this could actually all be built on perf and glued to the bottom of the single coil as to complement the wiring of the emg's. if you use a mega switch you should be able to pull off the combo above. anything else and i would ahve to do some trickywiring. however if you have a carvin switch you can turn it into a six way switch if you are clever. ciao for now. ed http://www.muzique.com/lab/boost.htm
  19. it only has one section where it is a highvoltage amp. and thats where the tube is. one of the best things ffor that would be to turn it on and yank the cord while its on. disipates the filtercaps. for the micro current you will be dealing with on the single preamp tube i would use a nice piece of wire with aligator clips ie insulated wire and clip it on the ground clip it on the cap. and leave it there. btw what do yo umean my semi working what exactly is it doing.
  20. seems feaseable let me look around and see if i can draw it u p. the roladn part has me a little sketchy but thats cuase i haven't put one in before
  21. the amp is solid state it has a tube preamp. probally run at twelve volts for "warmth" actually you can run two twelve inch speakers off of twenty watts but it won't have alot of headroom and you have to make sure the impedance is spot on.
  22. of course you could change the transformers and the tubes and the speaker and get more wattage for sure, but wait thats a new amp. actually which behringer is it i could look into it. depends on what it is, how much wattage its running and how far you want to go into this. it could be as simple as changing out the output transformer or perhaps rebiasing it which still deals with high voltage but isn't that difficult. you can always add more tubes but you need more high voltage. for a little headroom you could opt to go with one of hammonds mini hv transformers gets you about 25ma at 400v or so or around 50ma at 250v. however don't get yourself killed without knowing what you are doing. before modding an existing amp look into what you are doing there are plenty of online resources and tube amps can kill you. ss can too but thats another factor. ed
  23. This isnt' a joke i searched and didnt' see anyone posting here about it so i am guessing no one else knows right now. Bill aka Lovekraft died a couple of days ago. I found out about it when i called friday night to see what he was up too. its strange we talked abotu music a few months ago and this song by catherine wheel black metallic kept popping up on my mp3 player and i like it but not enought to hear it 50times in one night but anyway taht was one of his songs he was diggin on. things are really strange like that. anyway i posted this to say farewell to a friend and to let the pgf comunity know of our loss. if everyone would keep his family in their prayers i am sure they would appreciate it. ed
  24. not to sound rude but yes, if you look above i mentioned them in the first post. and thats what i am talking about. putting the connector on the pickup end and having one stretched between the cavities
  25. actually a lespaul would be easy to wire, with it. keep in mind i am talking about the smallerconnectors. and once the guitar was wired the connectors would stay in place ie through the body. and the pickups would attach in the cavitys and the switch at its cavity ie etc. as far as limiting know its actually liberating. think about it for a second. 1.3 way switch wired up standard strat 1 five way heavy modded. changing a wirein setup would be easy. each plug has all of the wires so its only a matter of changing the switch. but then again i did buy a plethra of switches and pots when carvin had a blow out a few years ago. 3.99 for a five way strat style switch is great. ed once i get pics posted it will be a little clearer. however i agree lk on the supplier but i am not mass producing them i find enough in junk that i can reuse for nearly everything i own. now if i can just get some hardwood for my axe i am good to go. that or i need some inlays done, but i may have that fixed.
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