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actually me and a friend of mine are wokring on this over at diystompboxes.com after seeing the zvex stuff. but right now i am finishing up my tube head. cool little thing 10 watts tube power 300V powersupply all in a hammond C box. also basic eq. three high gain stages irf820 source follower to drive eq and a single 12ax7 to drive the powersection. all out of three tubes.. may change it too. three 6dx8's and use one of the pentodes to drive the powersection. crank up the wattage up. slightly. sorry didtn' mean to rant.. thoguh

Or, if you want a tube amplifier sound, get rid of all four of the infernal things! very true.. but one of the things that gives it that sound is the diodes. it doesnt' sound the same wihtout them... not better or worse just different.. of course i think most people (not all) have a hard time distiguishing between tubes and ss. i know of one circuit.. that would blow your gourd but i donbt' hvae it on the computer only on paper. i foudn a rough version of it on the net. it uses a mosfet and a jfet to act like a tube.. and all at highvoltages. i gutted a dead 12ax7 and plugged it into my marshall i had at the time. and everyone wanted to know what i had done to make it scream and sound so creamy.. i laughed i told them i retubed it.. which in a sense i did... lol

sethmetal email me and i will draw it up.

hey james you can buy a strip of piezeo material for like 4 bucks online. or even get some freebies from some of the manufactuors. and just solder a wire ot each side.

also for a more throaty distortion remove one of the 4007 diodes

looking at the scheme replace the capacitor on what is it the cathode. end... lol i never learned the terms i just know how it works. anyway replace the .1cap with like at least a 1mfd if it isn mislabeled and already a 1mfd then change it to a 10uf or so.. this will help with the freq shaping which since bass freq use more energy therefore you will have to use the gain to to drive a broader freq range. you can raise the 1k upt to 2.7k and even decrease the 100k to around 75k. and thiss will help.

if you have a super hot pickup you dont' need a booster. like an x2n

is tehre a push pull switch tehre or a push on push off button to od the clean channel most marshalls have this function...

ROFLMAO.................... TOO FUNNY i wasn't expecting this... i am actually working on something pretty niffty.. using three bbd's all set at different delay rates and wiht slight feedback into eachothers signal path. but its still up in the air. of course if i could find smt bbd's on sample then i would try to do that.. i could probaly fit it into a space the size of a hlaf dollar maybee??????

you do have to drill at an angle and since i was redoing the inlays i just made bigger inlays.. as for where ot put the fiber optic i used a dremel and routed a small channel down the side of the neck around a 1/4" from the fretboard neck glue joint..

you can get free samples of fiberoptics online. by asking for them also it is possible to retrofit a fretboard but it does require some work.. unless you plan on removing it from the neck

you can actually manipulate the little ceramic or pot metal pieces that hold the string in place. you can make little pieces that will slide in there it is best to use a small little piece of steel on top of that. i can draw a diagram i fyou want.. it won't be completely inidividual but it will pretty darn close.. .

have you thought about making your own from piezo pieces and putting them under the bridge????

hmm question. when did the dimarzio x2n become ceramic. i have an old one like from early 80's and one from the late 90's and both are alnico magnets. but i checked out the other sites and i checked a new one and its ceramic.. what gives?????? its stamped alnico btw and it looks compleetley different from the other x2n i have looked at

did you see the 12 pos wiring diagram in the tutorials..

glad you are having fun with itb

i got quite a few tubes lying around.. i could see if i have some 12ax7 types if you want.. if i have some you culd have them as i am workign with pentodes more now..

depends on your knowledge of electronics your soldering skills and if you want to make buy a board or use perf.. personally i say no it isn't hard at all but then again i also have a magic 500mh wah inductor that most people cream over. anyone wnating to build pedals should check out diystompboxes.com they are very nice there also

for anyone building your own cables.. i have 18 guage stereo wire thats shielded.. i am giving it away fro postage. i got it in 25 foot sections.. drop me an email if you are interested austenfantanio@yahoo.com

i did a knob tutoria..(text only ) on the diy forum. i will see if i can find it and email it to bryan as my geocities site bandwidth is always over loaded. i am in the process of making some wah gears for a guy and i will be offering them to anyone who wants them at cost. some ideas if you want to make your own knobs.. they make these great little 30day pill dividers at the dollar tree and they are big enough to use as molds for different knobs..

i had really sensitive pickups on the piezo equiped one.. and yes you can use the piezo speakers with the drive from a 386 on max setting to get it to feedback.. it depends on a few factors one of them in the fact is how microphonic the pickups are.. if it doens't work with the piezeo then you may have to use a samll speaker.. this isnt' an exaxc science. more of an expirament. i konw what works for me.

hey love craft. they make a magnafying glass that clamps on your desk and doubles as a light for around 60 bucks. new. at shields electronics its the same one i use for my crap.. lol......... i do regular sized chips and compenents smt style on rgular boards. i found out the hard way when i ddint' mirror one day and have never drilled since then

i am not sure on what the switches weigh. but more than likely if you got two. i could get the switches and ship it too you for like 15 bucks. 12bucks for switches and three for shipping. as far as how i manage that.. trade secret heh heh heh.. nah JJ i have a friend who ordered bulk some time ago, and i did soem work for his distributor and now i can get them cheapp to and nto have to order as much. also thats the blue carlings for six. the TPDT the DPDT are cheaper. just let me know. anyone here who wants some can piggy back too. just dro p me an email austenfantanio@yahoo.com

oh yeah it can work nicely.. i have a guitar with built in distoriton. of course its my own design of distortion. but still it kicks butt, my sampler was oriignally in my guitar till i got tired of all the batts

using a quad opamp you could make two sets of filters one set per pickup.. assuming you have two pickups.. other wise you could do more or less. split the range of the instrument between highs and lows on the guitar range.. ie split 4th fret F# on the D string to be the highest note allowed on the low side .. and G to be the lowest note allowed on the high side. this woudl allow you to process with an eq style activity each half of the guitar per pickup too. and also control the output of the two halves of the freqency range with a slide potentiometer. alternatively.. you could also make them out of phase with each other to make them defined more. a guitarist in a metal band i saw in florida approached me about making her seven string stand out more compared to her lespaul. i looked at the freqrange of her LP and tried to match the peaks and valleys with the sevenstring.. on top of that we decided to go with the half phase idea mentioned above in a box she could turn on and off. similar in theory to using two tubes like an ab pushpull style circuit in a tube amp one for negative phase and one for positive. we took it a step further and added the high and low balance and seperation in there. the current idea i am workign on was to have 90 degrees of phase seperation between bands.. so i could have my 40hz-180hz split and my 180hz-440hz split and then have everything above it split also at 90 degrees phase. still workign on that one though.. but the former works like a charm. it will proablly be the second or third pedal released. this spring