Kyle Cavanaugh

I like it. Looks rather original, too!

Hi guys, I just tore apart my cheap floyd rose copy to clean of tobacco smoke and other junk. It has a diecast base to it with a rather low iron content (magnet test). I happen to have laying around a base plate made of stamped steel (like an a original) and it has all the same dimensions except that I'd have to drill and countersink the holes for the screws that hold the trem block on it slightly larger. What kind of tonal differences exist in these two and which is most recommended?

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switch where the inputs and outputs go on the pots to decouple them. Otherwise, it'll do wierd stuff like a Les Paul does, like it'd kill the whole signal if one volume is at 0, and having the pickups reduce the overall inductance giving you a wierd sound.

Check out Morley Wah Pedals.

They made a crap load in the late 90's up til like 2001, and stopped making most models.

It let's some more of the lower frequencies through and lets the cap discharge quicker as it lowers the load resistance in parallel with the cap. I find just a cap by itself kills the harmonics kind of for me. Also, If you wired a cap and a resistor in parallel and ran it in series with a signal, it's called RC coupling, and I'm pretty sure it gives a rather pure signal except for a peak frequency that shifts in phase.

Man you got your work cut out for you! I'm willing to assist in the R&D of the electronics if you want, it sounds like a really fun project! I've designed a passive, humbucker sized pickup that with the flick of a switch can do many different combinations of sounds (humbucker, single coil which would go along similar lines as the 513. I still gotta makea prototype, but I'd bet that applying an Evo type design to it may lead to further versatility, but it can't be sold that way due to patents.

Us Americans have searched high and low and can't find any of this! I can imagine maybe the dry heat of the desert made it combust!

Read the sustainer thread if you want to understand how they work.

I bet having one pair in paralell and the other in series and having the option of having them in series with other and one pair at a time. A normal 3-way Tele switch would git 'er done!

Looks like it already went well! I just hope that white between the wood sections aren't the glue lines. I didn't know incense was actually a wood, no wonder it burns so well!

I'm making a guitar that has flat frequency response magnetic pickups and runs through a specially designed analog filter than should in theory be a little more accurate on modeling electric guitars, at least as far as the pickups go. It will pick up and cancel out harmonics just like a normal pickup would because of what area of the string is being picked up. It's been a long road designing it, but I have less than a month to be done with it as it's my senior project for electronics. Since the pickup design I came up with is hexaphonic (one for each string), I was actually thinking whether or not I could make a MIDI pickup that had better tracking this way, instead of with piezos, but that I'll have to save for later.

Ditto.

Slap me if I'm wrong here, but isn't the common (-) supposed to be connected to the ground? That would mean that ifyou measured across the common and ground, you should get 0 volts as it's shorted out. If you get a voltage then obviously it's not right. There could just not be a ground wire attached, as well/ The last owners of our house upgraded from 2 prong to 3 prong and never changed the original wiring itself. ONE THING'S FOR SURE, ALWAYS WEAR RUBBER SOLED SHOES OR YOU ARE AT MUCH GREATER RISK FOR BEING THE SHORTEST PATH TO GROUND! Obviously, you were. Considering the amp is probably isolated from ground by the transformer (s), your problem may lie in that.