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sounds as if you have them wired wrong! make sure the wiring is right in terms of pickup lead colours. looks like it could be easy to mix them up. but be aware that with the outer coil wiring not all positions (only the middle position if wired right!) will be humcancelling. so with the outer coil selected and the blend pot to one side you will get hum, this is totally normal. its only when the switch is set to humbucking you shouldn't.

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Ya can find switches around. If you're looking online, best to look at places like RS etc that have the dimensions of the switches on them. I think (don't take my word for it!!) that the MEC switches are roughly the same diameter as a CTS pot. Not 100% sure as i use Alpha Mini pots, but there's a start. You're probably best using push/pull pots though, cous you retain your tone pots and the 'stock' appearance that would helpif you ever wanted to sell the axe

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sounds pretty funky let us know how it turns out.

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put yer compressor before the wah

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Is this gonna work? In a word.... No.

Will reply later if noone does in between now and then! in a rush!

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Dont allparts have some of them?

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Have you tried a mesa cab with it? You'd be suprised how much difference it makes. bloody expensive though... but then again....

Make one

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Aint they playing with burning skies at the mo? My housemate used to be burning skies' drummer ha h aha

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Dual Recs? Bass 7, Mid 4, Treble 8, Presence 4-5, Drive about half way, and crank the bugga

Through a 4x12 traditional cab, none of this oversized recto cab stuff thank you.

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Maybe Mr Lollar is worried people will stop buying his pickups if they all start making their own?

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Scrap wood for base as mentioned before. You can get perloid acrylic from various places that is pretty cheap. Otherwise epoxy with stuff thrown in makes a nice cheap inlay material and you get no gaps round the edge

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Nevermind the cocktail dress, look at the last photo on that page.... what's goin on there?!

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Dip it in liquid aluminium (joke)

Change the bevels on the sides maybe? more jackson rhodes feel might be good?

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Have to admit, on the topic of compressors.... The DBX i've got in my rack is the single best thing in it Its last in line, just before power amps. Acts as gate and comp. Makes the overall sound soooooooo sweet. I also have a gate and comp before the preamp... thinking of getting another DBX to go in there too. Just sounds like recorded guitar when you play live. Cool cool.

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Love the finish. Like that PRS faded denim finish on the Modern eagles. Got any pics before the sand back to se what kind of colour it was before?

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Get ya.

One thing that pisses me off about rack stuff....

PRICE.

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Projects i'd advise to start:

Ibanez tube screamer

Big Muff

Buffer pedal!

MXR Blue box

Boss CE-2 (complicated but works well)

Boss DS-1 (off Tonepad)

All pretty nice projects. Although be careful, the DS-1 might be easier and cheaper to buy a 2nd hand one

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I disagree with the last post! (sorry!)

If you get a decent rack case, they're not fragile! And as for set up and leave? I agree once you've got your signal routing sorted i'd leave it be, but you can then program the thing to do pretty much anything. Take a Mesa Triaxis, 2:90 and a G-major and you can get pretty much anything out of it.

As for what rob has said. Instead of buying two poweramps, why not just split your rack? Put the poweramp in another case and your preamps and effects in the other. Then take the preamp case to practice and plug into the PA, and when it comes to gig time, put it ontop of the power amp case (easy if you get cases that interlock well like the gator ABS ones) and plug em up. If you're clever about it you can make them plug and play. Oh, makes them lighter too

What i like doing in a rack is having a 1u panel on the back with neutrik power and jack connectors (the locking types) and that way its like a plug and play unit. Very handy, very quick and looks pretty cool too.

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any idea how it was listed? I'm crap at finding things on their bloody website!

Cheers

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I was looking for something more like the stuff stewmac sells. All i can find on RS is the stuff like maplin sells which is for reconnecting broken PCB tracks. Heyhum.

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Title says it all.

Thanks in advance

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Hey man... Digging the axe man.

Really like the scarf joint you've done there. Is the black streak just a thick veneer? Couldnt quite make it out on the pics.

Nice to see some natural maple tops for once

Cheers

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To be perfectly honest, i dont think any tremolo stabiliser will work for what you want! Its one of the things you have to accept with trems, no massive tune ups without a big wait! That said, the hipshot tremsetter is alright. I wouldnt buy one again, but it was alright. made a difference, but the things are so bloody fiddly to set up i dont think ican be arsed with em again.

If you want lots of tunings, have you looked at a hipshot trilogy? Not a trem, but exactly what you're looking for in terms of multiple tunings? Or you could learn some of those doyle dykes tricks (if you've seen him live u'll understand )

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Both.

Oh and Ireland be going down! (here's hoping... fingers crossed!)

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We talking effects pedals in the pedalboard yeah? First thing, DO NOT power all your effects off the same transformer. That's a sure way to get a very nice groundloop going on. You want to find a power supply that has separate transformers per output (only one i can think of is voodoo labs pedal power). Although best way is to make one. If you look at generalguitargadgets.com there is a plan for one on there. I'm making one at the mo for my pedals (cept mine are going in my rack... but same diff). Got a load of small transformers from RS each putting out 233mA. Works loverly

You can also power the FCB1010 by 9v if you don't mind modding it. Theres loads of guides on the net just google it.

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