ThePlague

I'd also possibly be interested in the Memory Man if Godin doesn't want it.

Binding extending past the fingerboard and into the neck wood perhaps? I don't think epoxy or glue and sawdust would ever look good.

For some reference, I use a .070 as the low B on my 7 string... I would want something heavier for an 8 string, but the longer scale will help too.

Actually that's not even an inversion. It's simply a different voicing. If something besides the A was in the bass (lowest note of the chord), then it'd be an inversion.

For example, if you played the low E string open, you'd have the 5th of the chord in the bass, making it an AM in second inversion.

Well the jack is enclosed, so there's nothing touching on the inside of the guitar. It's this jack from Carvin:

I'll hopefully try checking today if I have wires connected to the wrong lugs.

GregP got it right. The lugs were reversed. Switched them and everythings working great. Now I can't wait 'til I can get a band practice together and open it up on my big amp!

I found the problem: the output jack.

I get no sound with a cable plugged all the way in to the jack, but if i plug one in about half way I get normal sound. Is there some reason behind this or is my jack just defective?

I'm just about positive the colors match up.

I tried Southpa's suggestion and no luck.

Actually I never grounded the ground lugs to the volume pot casings. I just ran them directly to the tone pot. I'll disconnect those and redo it the way you said.

Yesterday a friend and I tried to wire my first guitar build. It's a two humbucker guitar with a three-way switch, two volume pots, and one tone pot. We went by this diagram.

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/schem...one-w-3way.html

When we connected it up, no sound. I don't have pictures, but I'll try to describe what we did.

We started with the pickup selector. We soldered the two center lugs to a shielded coax wire and ran that to the right lug of the tone pot. The top lug of the switch we ran to the center lug of one of the volume pots, the bottom lug to the center lug of the other volume pot.

Then we installed the pickups. First the neck pickup. Red and white we soldered together and put a little ball of hot glue around the solder joint for a little insurance. Green and bare we soldered to the casing of the tone pot. Black we ran to the right lug of a volume pot. Same procedure for the bridge pickup then, except black running to the other volume pot.

Then we grounded both volume pots. Left lug of the pots to the tone pot casing again.

Next we soldered the capacitor to the center lug of the tone pot and the tone pot casing.

Input jack was next. The long lug we soldered to the right lug of the tone pot, the short one to the tone pot casing.

Lastly we ran a wire from the bridge post to the tone pot casing.

What are some possible reasons for getting no sound out of the guitar at all? We both have some experience with soldering, and I've checked all the joints. All seem solid.

i'm not sure what you're defining unheard of as, so i'll just list some bands that people on here MIGHT not know. none of these are too obscure.

arcturus - avant garde/post black metal. garm of ulver did vocals for every album up until the one they released this year.

magnitude 9 - power/prog metal. very melodic with the singer hitting some wicked high notes.

mithras - experimental death metal. i haven't heard much from these guys, but what i've heard is very good.

Why not make a little lip(thumbrest) from the same wood as the body and screw it to the body on the bass side of the strings. I think making it flat on the inside(stringside) and quarter round concave onthe outside(thumbside) would work out exceptionally well.

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or instead of a lip, how about a little carve? same basic idea but instead of adding something onto the top, take a little off.

Anything but the crappiest of guitars can still handle .11s. 

Greg

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i think he was talking more about the lower strings. particuarly tuning a .070 to E.

but you're right. calling .011's heavy guage is exaggerating. i get into the habit of calling them heavy because they're heavier than the .009's just about everyone i know plays.

i like heavy strings and medium action. on my seven string i use an .011-.070 set and on my six strings i think it's .010-.056. standard tuning on everything (well drop d once in a while on the sixes).

the reason i don't like my action super low is you can't really dig into bends when it's that low. i always felt like the string was about to slip under my finger. doesn't happen with my action raised a bit and heavier strings.

i play a lot of stuff, but mainly it's rock and metal.

i've always been intrigued by touch style guitars. i think if i ever found a really good teacher near me i'd probably try learning.

i love the inlay on the ironbird. reminds me of the john myung signature bass.

Now I'm looking at the smooth-sanded wood, which i've been lovingly sanding with progressively finer sanding paper... and I'm wondering about staining the wood a little darker.  The wood, I think in the Ibanez EX series is poplar.  It looks like PINE!  Should/could i stain it to make it a bit more butterscotch?  Will my Tung oil still work after a lil staining?

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the oil will darken it, if that's all you're looking for. otherwise, i think it works over stain.

Teacher! Teacher! Can we help pick out what pickups to buy?? PLEASE??

No, I really wanna help there. What kinda tunes does y'all play? My 7-string pickup choices are diverse according to the music you play.

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wasn't directed at me, but since you brought it up...

i'll shoot you a PM.

i love it!

i sort of agreed with matt about the pickup rings when i saw it unstrung and with no pickups in it. the picture of you holding it makes me like the pickup rings a lot.

only thing i would change is the fretboard. i'm a sucker for ebony.

( What stops the inlay from comeing off the tape after you scribe around it the first time )

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Anyway...similar question...so, If I make up a lead to plug the output of my Korg AXG1 effects box into the input of the sound card and use a program like Audacity I should be right... I'll need a special mono to mini stereo jack lead, I guess...?

psw

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so you want to go

guitar -> korg -> line in, and then record in whatever program you choose?

it'll work fine since your pedal has a preamp built in. all you need is a little 1/4" to 1/8" adapter that you can get at radio shack for about $2 and you're set. i actually have the same pedal and i'll use it from time to time the same way to make demos of songs at home.

quick question: when you say you're trying to get a finish similar to that ebmm, you mean you're doing a solid color finish like that on your jpm? (as in, no picasso graphic)

i'm looking forward to pics as well.

To start out doing computer based editing is a very daunting task that several end up throwing in the towel on. You must first learn to chew, Grasshopper.

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a good point. computer recording is a bit tricky when you don't know what you're doing. the good thing is, you can usually tell how easy a program is to use by how much it costs.

for example, i said that my band used to use cakewalk. it was a nice little program. cost us about $50 i think. very simple to use. arm the track and record. effects were easy, mixing everything down was easy, the program lived up to its name.

recently we put some money together and bought pro tools. i think it costs somewhere in the $800-$1000 range new, we got it used for like $400. little bit trickier to figure out.

generally reading the manual will teach you at least the basics so you can start getting your ideas recorded.

i've only played a schecter for a half hour or so at a time in a guitar shop. it was a C1 plus.

that said, i haven't been impressed. the neck is really where i was disappointed. it's not super thick, but it's not thin either. it just didn't feel right in my hands (but that's not saying it won't feel right in yours). the action was much higher than the rg's i've played at a comparable price. i think rg's play much better.

the tone was nothing remarkable. pretty much what i'd expect from a $500 guitar. the duncan designed humbuckers in the one i played were usable, but i'd replace them as soon as i could.

i don't really see what's exotic about the C1 exotic. it's got a mahogany body and a maple top just like the rest of the C1 series. it's just flamed with a natural finish instead of quilted and dyed.

Ive decided to take out the ebony fillers on the back and im gunna replace them with just sapele to hide the holes as best as i can (the ebony is unbalancing my maple inlay).

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that's a shame. i thought the ebony actually complimented the maple quite well.

just glancing at the pic in the first post, i thought the guitar was pretty cool. i liked the thinner waist, but it didn't go much farther than that.

looking at the back shots, i love this guitar. that bowl carve is a really cool idea. is it comfortable?

the way i do it is i record to a computer.

for recording drums it helps to have a set of drum mics, but you can do it with just one mic. my band uses a set of shure mics on bass snare and toms with a couple off brand condensers overhead.

for guitar and bass, we just mic the cabinets with a shure sm57 and sm58.

for vocals we use a cheap marshall vocal mic.

mixing it all together is actually the easy part once you know how to do it. when doing it to a computer, any multi track recording program will do the job. with my band i use pro tools, but at home i use cool edit pro. you can get cool edit from a variety of file sharing programs with a serial number and password.

after you record there should be an option on whatever program you're using to "mix down" or "bounce to file."