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I'm very new to electronics (and brand new to this forum) and I was looking for a bit of advice.
First on the driver I have an old single coil I'm planning on modifying as explained HERE.
This is where I'm having trouble.
The guitar I plan on modifying currently has a Dimarzio Steve's Special bridge pickup (390mV) and I was wondering if i needed to bother with the whole Fetzer thing or if it has a high enough output that I could get away with just using the Ruby amplifier.
It looks like the parts required for the ruby amplifier are (from above site):
LM386 power amp
DIL8 IC socket
2x 100K trimmer
1K trimmer
Resistors: 1M, 1.5K, 68K
Caps: 22n, 100nF, 22uF, 100uF, 220uF
JFET J201
Could someone correct me if I am wrong?
Also how would I go about wiring the circuit into the guitar, would I just wire the bridge pickup to the output as well as the input for the amplifier or is there something more complicated involved?
Could someone point me in the direction of a website that sells all of the required parts for the amplifier? I live far from anywhere that would sell the required parts.
Finally even though it's probably been done before could someone please post (or direct me to) clear pictures of the ruby amplifier? I honestly have no clue as to what most of the symbols on the schematics represent so it would be nice to see the actual thing in stead.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
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Posted · Edited by arizonagt
As far as location I'm in Hawaii so i'm incredibly limited as far as stores.
The guitar currently has two humbuckers but i'm planning to completely remove the neck pickup and use only the bridge so it will be simply a one pickup guitar.
Basically my only experience thus far is completely re-wiring most of my guitars for various reasons (swapping out pickups, replacing bad pots, etc.) but nothing really more complicated.
In regard to the parts I have all of the switches i'll need laying around from other guitar modifications that turned out to be impractical.
As for the tools I'm completely set as well, i just need the parts for the amplifier circuit and the wire for the driver.
And thank you for the helpful response.