audiochild

thanks for the replies! sorry for not being precise enough. I'm in Europe but the guitar is being build in the US. the neck is not made yet. I'm not sure if I want inlays at all but recently I saw some guitars with sexy ones. like tribals or motifs all over the fingerboard. I have no idea how much it would cost and much effort it is so I'd like to see some galleries/pages so that I get some inspiration of how it could look and find someone to address. that page looks good, thanks WezV

Do you know where one can get custom neck inlays done? thanks!

I think I'll give up concerning the on board whammy pedal. an extra cord would be annoying. Paul, or do you think its possible to control the whammy wireless?

well, I'd have my hand completely free for the knob when using the whammy effect as I'd use it with a fernandes sustainer. also, I wouldn't do complete octave "slides" with it as I'd like to bend smaller intervals with it slowly. also, I'd like to do small detunings as quartertones with it being part of an ascending melody (for example). I think it is harder to that with the foo especially in live action... I like to make a lot of movements and need my feet not to fall all over... hm, so is it impossible to power the whammy with a battery? Paul, that guitar looks absolutely sweet! I'm a knoob about tech stuff, could you be more precise what you control with the wireless midi? I'm using a POD X3 Live sometimes so I've heard of Variax guuitars but I'm not completely aware how you use it. would it be possible to control the whammy "pedal" wireless with a knob?

thanks for all your suggestions! further investigation revealed that it seems to be necessary to re-program one of the chips with CC++ or similar in order to make it possible. I've got the Whammy 4 and it is midi controllable but I wouldn't actually need midi control if I have everything on board, would I? I'd just like to play solos with the pitch shifting effect by turning a knob on the guitar. I imagine it being a lot more precise than using a pedal. the midi strip found on manson guitars as the black and the bomber one is just able to control the unit, which is outside the guitar. also, it only switches between the effect "presets" and is not able to affect the actual pitch like you do with the pedal. hmmmm, maybe I really gotta put something other inside. btw I'm not building it myself, I'm a noob at that, I get it made by a guy oversea in the US. still I can't understand why its not simply possible to take all the inside of the Whammy that is necessary, put it into the guitar, wire here wire there knob and finished?

Hi, I'm getting a guitar build by someone and want to have some "stomp" effects inside of it. I'd like to have a digitech whammy installed into the guitar so that I could control the pitch with a knob instead of a pedal with my foot. I was told that people had issues when doing that. do you know of such a thing in a guitar? I assume that it is not a problem to turn the pedal into a knob and to install the electronics. but I was wondering if it possible to use it with a battery inside? the whammy I have seems to only work with an ac adaptor as it has some unusual power "desires" that I'm not sure exist batteries for. do you have any experiences with this kind of thing? any suggestions much appreciated! thanks