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  1. borge
    tone plays a huge part in defining music. we have only three variables: pitch, duration and timbre. A piece of music (set pitches and durations) played with different instruments (or different timbres on the same instruments) will often change the genre. if you hear a simple pent riff on played on pos. 4 on a strat>q tron>clean fender. you instantly think funk. the same riff on a sitar or LP>triple Rectifier or banjo or kazoo ect will all imply different genres to some extent...
  2. borge
    Mike Sterns yamaha has a neck pup and a tone control....the 2 basic key elements to jazz tones. Sure you could play jazz on any guitar but turning up to a jazz gig with just a bridge pup and vol is like turning up to a metal gig with a tele and a champ
  3. borge
    way cool. 'The Prestige' is a great movie with the Tesla-Edison rivalry as a sub story,with none other than David Bowie playing Tesla
  4. borge
    Because most active guitars last thousands of hours which equates to years per battery for most people? But if you're doing something like the link below its a very cool idea. Thats exactly what the vox plug and play is except no need for the patch cable. Check this out: http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.ph...travel%20guitar
  5. borge
    take it back, messing with it will probably void your warranty, you shouldn't have to fix a guitar you just bought. have you tapped the pups to see exactly which selections are being made?
  6. borge
    I'm confused... why isn't your lead dictating your max pedalboard-guitar distance? what 'unit'? you mean a stompbox? how does that make your amp more portable? is your amp battery powered? I use a tascam CD GT2 for silent practice, all i need is guitar>lead>GT2>headphones and I get multiple guitar &vox. effects, a cd player with tempo, pitch & key adjustment and an infinite looper and a plethora of other awesome things all in a small battery (i use rechargables ) powered package, I use it on bus/car/plane trips or anywhere else I've got a few spare minutes to get some practice/transcribing in. I could even attach it to my strap and walk around the block playing a vox plug and play headphone amp and a mp3/cd player would be a cheap alternative.
  7. borge
    the sustaniac is active (powered) and apparently working fine, the pickups are passive (unpowered) and are not.... ATM I think the problem lies with the switching.
  8. borge
    But where would it even be useful? Obviously where ever you're using your pedals you're using an amp so mains power is present to plug you adapter into. The only situations I can think of are whilst busking with a battery powered amp or when your power circuit is so close to capacity plugging in your adapter would trip the breaker
  9. borge
    tap the pickups with something Iron/steel to see which are selected for each switch pos. more info would be good, Pics and a schem. for a start.
  10. borge
    This would be easy enough to do you just need to add the charger circuit (a 9v battery charger is not simply a 9vdc supply) put in a 9v rechargeable battery and rewire the jack to charge the battery. IMO its not a large enough improvement over conventional rechargeable use to warrant doing. Of course its the perfect solution for those too lazy to take the battery out and put it in a charger Just get a proper power supply and be done with batteries altogether, saves energy and money in the long run and (for the greenies out there) does away with the environmental implications of batteries.
  11. borge
    Also, even if the tone pot is left on 10 all of the time, most people still prefer the sound with the tone pot in the circuit. GITM covered it but I'll say it anyway: JFGI!
  12. borge
    +1
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    +1
  15. borge
    Agreed. But if the 50k is a typo, a schematic and pics would help.
  16. borge
    I use a jigsaw to rough shape. Any hardware store will have a chamfer bit, i got a set of 12 router bits for 20nzd ($10us) 3 years later they're still good. 4): up to you, straight cut is standard, but angled/rounded would work fine if you want to see the white layer.
  17. borge
    I still think its the nut, a well cut nut can leave less than the thickness of a high e string (.010) between the strings and the top on the 1st fret, a bit more for the thicker strings. the final height of the action affects how low the nut can be cut without (open) string buzz. To eliminate the nut from the equation, put a capo on the 1st fret and tune up (to F)
  18. borge
    Sounds like the nut is too high.
  19. borge
    Yes, you have it right.
  20. borge
    Well there are alot of marshall amps...... Your pedal is digital, someone with a fair amount of digital switching knowledge may be able to adapt it for another digital switched marshall amp (if there are any) or if the switches are the right kind, hard wire 1-3 to an addictional 1/4 output and switch an analog switched amp. seeing as you cant even get internal pics I'd say dont try it
  21. borge
    maybe.... but probably not, you haven't provided anywhere near enough info...... which amps? how many functions does your pedal have? how many functions does your 'different amp' have? does your pedal have power? ie does it light up without batteries? have you looked for the 2 different footswitch schematics? Post internal pics of the pedal in question.
  22. borge
    Its a weak analogy anyway, the multiple source points, full frequency range, reflection, cancellation and absorption (and probably other things only an acoustic architect understands) all play a part in sound acoustics, You may as well be comparing a skipping rope to the oceans currents.......
  23. borge
    remember the R value is the max value the pot will give, the '10' pos.........so cutoff freq changes with the spin of the knob....... I think Q value is probably just as, if not more important than freq. Reverend guitars also have a bass cut on guitars, maybe find out what value cap they use compare to the .022uF G&L use and go from there. And we still don't know what guitar or bass and pups you're using? A vintage bridge pup in an all maple strat is going to be a different story to a deathbucker 5000 in the neck pos. of an LP...... Also, Keegans link is in regard to recording studio EQ which is almost always applied to the recorded audio ie after effects, amps and speakers and the rest of it have done their (huge) part, I'm not sure how much those values apply to the raw guitar signal, also refer to my first sentence again
  24. borge
    I'm not sure if I understand you but anyway.... pos 1+5 are the same as the ibanez. pos 2 outer coils grey pos 3 outer coils red pos 4 inner coils grey but maybe you're wanting something else? maybe you don't know what 'inner' and 'outer' coils mean?
  25. borge
    I went to a local kitchen maker and got a few offcuts for free, enough for a hundred or so nuts. they're happy to give it away so they don't have to pay to dump it....
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