Paul Marossy

Another combination that I like is the pickups on my Parker Mojo Nitefly - A Seymour Duncan "Jazz" on the neck and a Seymour Duncan "JB" on the bridge. I also like the vintage Seymour Duncan AH-1 Allan Holdsworth signature pickup a lot, too.

My vote is for a DiMarzio FRED on the bridge.

I still vote for the FRED. It will not get muddy like those super high output pickups will. You can hear this pickup on my tune called "The Race" here: http://www.myspace.com/j201jams

I believe that I was using the FRED on both guitar parts, but I know for sure on the rhythm track I did.

My vote is for a DiMarzio FRED on the bridge.

Build the Tillman preamp with a 6.8uf or 10uF bypass cap on the FET, you'll pummel the input of your amp.

http://www.till.com/articles/GuitarPreamp/

I get the Jazzmaster and the Jaguar mixed up.

Since you have two of them, you could use them as on/off switches for the pickups though, if you feel like doing that. and then have the other "on" be coil tap or something.

True. Then you'd have something like like a Jazzmaster pickup switching scenario, right?

Cool man!

Yeah, a center off DPDT switch is not going to work like a Gibson 3-way switch. You need to get a different type of switch.

That's my hunch as to what happened. Anyhow, please let us know what it turns out to be!

Popping noises are almost always from arcing. Check your solder joints around the XLR jack. You might have a bad solder joint on that XLR jack.

EDIT: Are you sure that the cord you were plugging into your jack wasn't supplying 48V phantom voltage to your amp at the time that you plugged that cord in? If that happened, I imagine that could have fried something in your amp...

Good points Greg. Perhaps my position is a bit skewed since I use guitars with floating bridges (Floyd Rose locking type). I suppose a fixed bridge guitar will "sense" the naunces of different tone woods a bit more. But even so, you can still mute the effect of the tone wood in any number of ways!

Ive just rewired my guitar with wire i took outa an old computer

I've done that before, too. But I find that the kind of wire that they use in computers doesn't take solder all that well...

That true bypass scheme would work OK. It's one that's using grounded circuit input on bypass mode. Not really needed on a wah circuit, it's usually used on high gain pedals that tend to oscillate when in bypass mode. But it would work fine for your application.

Thank you very much paul, im a fan of your diy works, and have looked at a few of your pedals on the site.

This on board wah is just what i was lokking for, and hopefully, i'll be able to get it to work on the push/pull tone knob. Any ideas on how i could get this to work?

thank you once again

Cool, glad you like my website.

As long as you have the physical room to put the circuit in your guitar, you could use a push-pull pot that has a DPDT switch on it. Just wire it like a standard true bypass switch. You'll be either routing the hot wire thru the wah circuit or having it bypass the circuit. I put that wah circuit between the guitar's volume control and the output jack. The only other thing to think about is how you want to do the pot for the wah itself.

Does that help?

I stuck a Maestro Boomerang wah circuit in my "SpankenStrat". Designed a compact PCB for it, too.

http://www.diyguitarist.com/Guitars/SuperStrat.htm - see the links next to the last picture on the page.

It kind of sounds sort of like, but not exactly, that dual parametric filter that Frank Zappa had in most of his guitars.

They make multi-meters that will also measure capacitance, but they don't seem to work as well as a meter specifically designed for measuring capacitance.

I remember a thread about this. My answer was something like, "Remove all the strings from your guitar, plug the guitar in your amp, and knock on the guitar. You'll see that the guitar doesn't need strings on it for the pickup to pick up wood vibration."

Guitar pickups turn the string vibration into sound thru an electromagnetic process. That's a different thing than tapping on your pickups with a screwdriver or it possibly picking up sounds from you knocking on your guitar without any strings on it.

I like the idea that certain woods & wood combos either add or subtract something from the pure quality of just the strings themselves. But you also absolutely can not ignore the guitar pickups, which really are the biggest factor in how your guitar is going to sound as they all have a sound a certain frequency response curve, resonant frequency & output. The wood type and density is what is going to determine things like sustain and what frequencies will be emphasized (or de-emphasized) the most. You even need to consider string gage, type of strings, type of bridge (fixed vs. floating) and even your fret material.

To me, a large part of this "tonewood" business is purely a lot of hype and a good reason to sell a guitar for an ungodly amount of money because it's made out of some kind of exotic wood. I will even be a total heretic and say that I have heard at least one plywood bodied Fender Strat that had a great tone to it. You really have to look at every piece of the puzzle when it comes to guitar tone.

Paul, what are the benefits of that fancy wire? I am just curious.

I use it mostly for stompboxes. It's a tough wire and the insulation is much stiffer than regular stranded wire. So it acts kind of like solid core wire, but it's stranded wire, which is more durable than solid core is. It stays where you put it once you learn a few tricks about it.

Basically, if you want some wire that's going to be very reliable, that's the stuff to use. If I were a guitar builder, I would use that stuff in my guitars.

Anyhow, at the end of the day, cheaper wire works just as well - especially in a guitar that has wires no longer than a few inches.

It's a bit expensive, but I like using 22 gage Teflon silver plated stranded copper wire.

http://www.bulkwire.com/product.asp?ProdID...&CtgID=6578

I like the looks of that guitar. I bet it will be extremely cool when it's done!

Just last week at work I had a transit company complain about a Mexican radio station coming over the 450MHz trunk system I maintain. Reminded me of that song...I'm on a Mexican WOHOH radio.

Anyways, turns out the meth-heads stole all the copper grounding wire & rod from the tower site so I had to reground everything. Dug a trench all around the buildings and into a ground bus in each building and connected it all to new rods & each leg of the tower. That relieved most of it but the radio station has more grounding to do on there equipment. 25Kw of power 20ft. away from from my equipment and poorly grounded

Next, I need to go back up ASAP to install a camera system to try and catch the copper thieves.

In the apartment I used to live in I could pickup the fire department if I turned just right until I grounded my guitar properly.

Yeah, the copper thieves are unbelievable. Here in Vegas, people are tearing apart air conditioning units to get the copper out of them. I've seen pictures of a movie theater that was abandoned for a few years, that a new owner wants to rennovate, and copper thieves tore apart the AC units on the roof, pulled ALL of the wire out of the conduits and electrical panels, and even tore apart bathroom walls to get at the copper piping inside the wall. It's just plain ridiculous.

Ooh ooh, can I have a go??

Here's one I got to rewire:

OK OK, so it doesn't look that bad.....BUT notice how the humbucker had been "disconnected", leaving almost no wire to hook up? Notice how it's dead anyway, it has no earth! The single coil pickup had its wires chopped off right there on the pickup, leaving no choice but to solder them back in to the ends of the coils. The volume pot wouldn't turn at all - maybe it had been totally roasted by a soldering iron?

I gave the boy an old humbucker I was gonna toss out, put in a new vol pot, replaced every piece of wire, and it's fine now. The owner is delighted with it, he can't believe how much quieter the humbucker is! (He knows I replaced it.)

It made me smile anyway.

DJ

Yeah, that looks like a hack job.

It's not pretty, but speaker wire works just as well as any other kind of wire.

Usually, a 47pF cap from your output to ground will kill any RFI, without any discernable change in your tone.

I like J&J power tubes. Preamp tubes I am not too picky about.

I also like www.thetubestore.com for getting tubes. I have used www.eurotubes.com in the past as well.