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  1. Using preamps in guitars

    in Electronics Chat

    Posted

    Hi guys.

    As many of you already seen i've recently finished my bass build and what interesting about it is that i used the onboard preamp in guitar/bass for the first time.

    Before this build i never understood why are so many knobs in most of good basses and why bass players need them and guitar players does not.

    So when choosing electronics for Rhino bass i was looking for best pickups (so i choodes Nordstrand DC). Then i explored several forums and found that these pickups combination with Aguilar OBP is the best. It have 3-band equalizer, 400/800 Hz mid frequency swithc, active/passive switch, volume and blend controls.

    What can i say? I now fully understand why so many high class basses (like Alembic) have so much controls. The sound changes drastically when you use EQ, you can make almost any sound you want from bass - it can be warm, sharp, round, bright. There is no noise. After active mode the passive one looks poor. Of course i understand that you can use passive bass and external preamps with equalizers but this is another story.

    So what's the question? If the bass preamps work so well and used in so many high-class products why can't we see anything like this in guitars?

    Do any of you have experince of using built in preamps with EQ in guitars?

  2. Guitar Of The Month vote - February 2014

    in Guitar Of The Month entry/poll archive

    Posted

    Thanks everybody for good words.

    Tele/ Firebird

    I am fan of Telecasters and appreciate when luthiers experiment with this classic shape so i really like your build. Wooden pickup mountings looks great! The only thing i want to advice is to put your logo on the headstock - of course it's my own opinion, but i think such a great guitar deserves your name on it. In this case headstock will look richer.

    Wengie

    This build is my favourite. Wenge is capricious wood to work with but it looks great. The combination of body wood and top, fingerboard, neck laminate is amazing!

    Red planet

    Extremely well built and very nice looking guitar! As guys already mentioned the top is amazing and i really like how you choosed the wood combinations (and especially the fact you didn't poot dots on the freatboard :) ). And i like your logo on the headstock!

  3. Guitar Of The Month - February 2014

    in Guitar Of The Month entry/poll archive

    Posted

    Imago "Rhino" Bass

    Neck:

    maple/bubinga/maple/bubinga/maple/bubinga/maple 7 piece neck
    Curly Madagascar Ebony fingerboard
    2-way truss rod + 2 carbon rods

    48mm nut width

    Body:

    40 mm thick
    zebrawood/wenge/sapele/wenge/zebrawood wings

    Hardware, electronics:
    Hipshot A style bridge
    Hipshot tuners

    Brass nut
    Ebony knobs
    2x Nordstrand dual coils pickups
    Aguilar preamp with 3 band EQ, Volume and blend control pots, middle frequency switch (400/800 Hz) and Active/Passive switch, 18V power supply.

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    Build thread: http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/topic/40751-bass-project/

    More photos:

    http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr295/MrButtmann/DR/DSC_0867_zps0202fd6b.jpg

    http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr295/MrButtmann/DR/DSC_0851_zps14011dcb.jpg

    http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr295/MrButtmann/DR/DSC_0884_zpsc6774f94.jpg

    http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr295/MrButtmann/DR/DSC_0883_zps9c871b62.jpg

    http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr295/MrButtmann/DR/DSC_0840_zpsc3e9f903.jpg

    http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr295/MrButtmann/DR/DSC_0879_zps9576e1ae.jpg

  4. Bass Project

    in In Progress and Finished Work

    Posted

    Wow, I haven't seen you around in a long time. Welcome back and that's a great return if I ever saw one! It's been a while since I remember that people thought you were crazy for painting over that 7-string F-style guitar and hell, those rasps!

    How come you weren't able to build for a while? You've got an excellent level of skill and it's a shame seeing that going unused :-)

    Thanks!

    It's not possible to make a living by building custom guitars in Russia so i was very active building guitars during my study in the university, but after that i got a job. Now i don't have regular access to the shop and can rarely do something in my apartments. Maybe in future things will change.

    ScottR, H.neckel013, ajax - thanks!

  5. Bass Project

    in In Progress and Finished Work

  7. Guitar Of The Month For September

    in Guitar Of The Month entry/poll archive

  9. Imago Bane

    in In Progress and Finished Work

    Posted

    So 2 months ago i've got an opportunity to finish the guitar.

    I painted it white and this time everything was great.

    The guitar is very light and easy to play and the sound is well balanced with nice sustain.

    Specs:

    Body - sapele+cherry (top)

    Neck - 3pcs mahogany

    Freatboard - bookmatched wenge

    Tuners - sperzel

    Pickups - SH-6+Golden Age

    Here are the photos:

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    http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr295/MrButtmann/Bane/22.jpg

    http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr295/MrButtmann/Bane/6.jpg

    http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr295/MrButtmann/Bane/7.jpg

    http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr295/MrButtmann/Bane/10.jpg

  10. Imago Bane

    in In Progress and Finished Work

    Posted

    It was the time of finishing the guitar.

    I decided to stain to with blue and then make whole guitar plain blue with transparent top.

    Here are the only photos i have (sorry for bad quality):

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    After finishing the guitar i had troubles again:

    1. Unfortunately i've made a mistake during mixing of lacquer so the finish was soft

    2. I've made a mistake with bridge humbucker position - it was too close to the bridge.

    So i decided to sand the guitar. Then i glued wood block in humbucker cavity and rerouted it.

  11. Imago Bane

    in In Progress and Finished Work

    Posted

    But then i thought again and understood that it would be a crime to have this body with very nice neck.

    So for the 3rd time i decided to change body design but with new wood (not using old body). Result:

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    Inlay work:

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    Then i glued the neck and carved neck and body

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  12. Imago Bane

    in In Progress and Finished Work

    Posted

    But the i saw Leviathan guitar on this forum (http://www.lgmguitars.com/guitars/leviathan/) and

    thought that it's better two have this design :D

    I absolutely forgot that i made cavities in the body and decided to reshape it to Leviathan. Here are the results:

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    As you can see there are many holes on the side of the guitar which i glued with scrap wood (and you can see scrap wood on the horn)

    Of course i've decided to make suited headstock!

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    So finally i had this as a result:

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  13. Imago Bane

    in In Progress and Finished Work

    Posted

    Hey guys!

    I haven't been here for a long time had a lot of work and wasn't able to make any guitar.

    Fortunately couple of months ago i had an opportunity to finish my 3 years old build.

    This build is not usual like "ideas->photoshop drawing->building" and i want to tell the story.

    Three years ago i decided to build copy of ESP Horizon guitar from the wood that is not sorry.

    So for body i took mahogany and cherry (top and back). I decided to make cavities under the top as you can see on the photo.

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    As for neck - i made 3pcs mahogany neck blank and bookmathed wenge freatboard (made of two pcs!).

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