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Ok thanks. I'll have to contact my guitar builder to see if the aluminium was an alloy or pure.

I have locking Sperzel tuners in my guitar and they are great. It doesnt go out of tune much at all and it really locks the strings in place.

What does aluminium look like if it gets chromed and can it be de-chromed? Do I only have to put aluminium on a buffer to get it really shinny or do I need polish or something too?

Yeah the sustainer has always been tempting to me. but I just cant say goodbye to my rio Grande Punchbox neck pickup. I'll have to wait for psw to create his ultra small sustainer device.

This is probably exactly what your trying to do, but cant you near enoguh copy the ebow technology, make it tiny and make six for each individual string, something like that?

Yeah, I am aware of this, but I just thought that he may have got round this with the very small system he was comming up with.

Having a sustainer concept in a bridge could be cool but that goes against one of the spec points of having little or no instrument modification. i wouldn't mind having the sustainer fitted to my guitar and drill a hole through to the cavity for the corcuitry etc, but I wouldn't want to replace my bridge. Could the sustainer go just below the neck pickup or would interference occurr?

I've been searching around for amps a little more and have come up with more amps that are within my price range. I was just wanting to know what people's opinions and comments about them are. The amps are:

Laney Tube Fusion models

Laney TFX models

They are not valve amps and they are not solid state. They are a hybrid of both. There is a valve pre-amp and the final output is solid state. What do people think of these. Since they are both valve and solid state does this mean a 65w would do me, or because of the solid stateness would I need 100w or something around there? Thanks for any comments.

LOL, if you keep at it I wouldn't mind betting you'll come up with the holy grail of the guitar world .

A while ago you asked for people's input into what they would like out of a sustainer. These points have probably been mentioned but I will metion them again. A dream sustainer for me would have all the features of the Fernandes Sustainer (as in normal sustain, harmonic sustain mode and mix sustain mode with all the pots for adjustments etc). Although, it would be small and discreet so that I wouldn't have to sacrifice my neck pickup to install it (i'm using a Rio Grande Punchbox so I think you can see why I wouldn't want to replace it). It would also not interfere with the bridge and neck pickups, maybe fit near the bridge like the Roland GK-2A MIDI pickup does.

Is what I have described above actually physically possible?

Yeah, a sustainer would be cool and I don't think anyone would disagree (whether they could make use of it or not). How long are you postponing development on the sustainer for?

I bet i'm late but happy birthday lovekraft.

if you send a pic to me (make sure it is a .jpg and smallish) to blinx_biohazard@hotmail.com and i'll take a look at it and email it back to you with notes etc if I can spot it, also a link to the wiring diagram you used would be good.

Wow, is your guitar plated in aluminium too like mine?

What sized file will I need. Is this easy to do, I've done no work on guitar at all before other than wiring my guitar. My guitar builder said that the worst case senario for putting a .56 to .60 string in place of the .46 is that I will crack the nut, so I will need to make the slot slightly bigger.. Also how would I know when i've filled away enough? Will this then mean I can't put a .46 string in the future? Thanks.

Cool, nice to know your still working on new things, even if it isnt the sustainer.

Hey guys, just a quick simple question for you (I hope). When I had my guitar built for me, the builder cut the string nut slots for gauge 10 strings. That is fine, but I am wanting to experiment with some Drop C, B, A etc bottom string tuning so will try a .56 bottom string. My question is, will I be able to do this with the bottom string nut slot cut to fit the standard gauge 10 bottom string which is .46? Thanks for your help, much appreciated.

Oh god lol, the Z-vex SHO. Yeah he says that pedal can do your amp some damage.

For the electronics, if you have pickups and pickup screws, the rest that comes to mind is:

soldering iron

wire stripplers

that electricians tape stuff

wire

solder (although there is a certain type recommended, cant remember what it is)

pots (500K recommended for humbucker, 2 of them one volume and one tone usually)

5 or 3 way selector switch for selecting the pickups

nuts and washers

knobs for the pots

screws for the pickup switch (if its a 5 way, if 3 way then i think its just nuts and washers again)

output jack socket

output jack plate with screws

pickguard of rear cavity cover

conductive paint or foil to shield the cavity areas

i think thats most things you'll need, some other people may be able to suggest more things. Hope that helps.

Sorry to almost cause an argument between you both. Thanks for the advice from both of you, it means a lot to me and hopefully will lead me to my eventual goal of recording some ideas and getting the experience needed for this university course. Thanks.

Ok, thanks for your help guys.

Ok, thanks, but you would certainly advise something like Sonar if it is to gain experience for university courses?

Yeah but there are loads of Athlon motherboards. Different sockets etc. Is the 3200 not as good as the 2500? How come?

The main reason behind this is actually so I can gain experience to get onto a uni course for Music Technology. Maybe the likes of Sonar etc are worth it.

So if not 64bit, what would you recommend? AMD XP 3200+? What motherboard is the best for this?

Ok thanks very much, I appreciate the help. It seems like I've near enough sorted the hardware and software out now. Just need to decide on whether I'm going to need a new PC because I can see this one not coping well lol.