Max_Powers

I am trying to find where I read it from, but I definitely did see that it could be damaging to your head to use a shielded cable.

I don't get any of this so don't ask me!

I meant we are not supposed to use shielded regular patch cables.

Anyone got any suggestions on which to get?

Stupid question, I know, but I read it has to be unshielded...

I like 'em both. To me, the Mesa seems to be built with a little higher quality materials, but the Peavey is a well-built unit as well.

To me, if you're happy with your Mesa and you don't really have a burning need for the 5150, what's the question?

My mesa doesn't bring the Metal heheh.

anyone?

I currently have the Mesa combo and while it does sound good, I have an oppertunity to pick up a Peavey 5150 combo for 750$ Canadian.

I know that I have to just play them both to really know which one I want in the end, but in addittion to that, I'd like to get some opinions from you guys!

So let's hear them!

Thanks a lot!

to answer the questions, my hawk is a solid body. I tried it with the pickups all the way down and it still feedsback. It comes in slowly then wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaahhhhhh haha.

As for my amp haha, it's a Mesa studio .22+. I didn't make any of these sounds before i put the pickups in so I just assumed it was my crappy wiring hehe.

I may try the surgical tubing.

So it is normal that I can hear every movement with my strap locks?

It's sorted out but it still gives me quite a bit of feedback. When i mute the strings it doesnt feedback though.

I'm getting fed up haha. Stupid grounds.

Lower the pickups a little.

Thanks! I'll give that a shot when I get home.

Ok I tried that, didn't work.

So to be more detailed, the sound the pickups put out is nothing short of amazing. I absolutely love it. Problem is with the gain up, as soon as I take my hand off the strings, it starts to squeel and hum. Put my hand back on and it's quiet. On my clean channel there doesn't seem to be any problem at all.....

Also noticed that when playing with my strap locks, I can hear every movement they make through my amp.

Any other suggestions?

It's sorted out but it still gives me quite a bit of feedback. When i mute the strings it doesnt feedback though.

I'm getting fed up haha. Stupid grounds.

Lower the pickups a little.

Thanks! I'll give that a shot when I get home.

That set is very popular and I like it. I use their LiveWire most of the time.

Did you change the pots, or cap...anything else in the chain?

I put in a .047 cap and switched one of my gibson pots to a 500k because i broke a piece off of the original. I am pretty sure gibson had 500K pots for the volume and tone before hand anyways.

I might change the tone pot as well, just in case, since there are no markings on it.

It's very possible that's the difference you're hearing. Even a pot change *can* change the sound, not all pots sweep range are exactly the same and some have minor resistance differences wide open. Between that and the cap is probably what you're hearing.

I ended up changing both pots to new 500k allparts pots. I put in that .047 cap and I must say that both my seymour duncans sound AMAZING! There was a problem with the pots and wiring from the previous user, everything sounded like crap. But now it sounds amazing, and the tone pot really changes the sound now.

I get quite a bit of feedback but it's tolerable for now. I'll have to figure that part out next.

Sorry....

But that's one bloody ugly axe...

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You sir are mistaken.

I usually leave my guitar tuned at C#, but my g/f and I were gonna jam today and so I decided to bring it up to standard. I do that, pull the strings a few times and keep tunning until it's fine. Then 15 minutes later I notice something weird from the corner of my eye. I look down and there's my bridge lifting from the guitar about .5 to a whole inch. I freaked out, tuned all the strings down and it went back to normal. Can anyone explain to me why it's doing this? Is it because the strings have just settled and the only way to fix this is by getting new strings put on? Thanks.

-Jamie

I am assuming that you had your guitar setup to play in drop C.

By tuning it to standard you put on quite a bit more tension than the bridge was willing to take. I suggest getting your bridge fixed, getting lighter strings and also a setup.

It sucks but you can't just go from standard tuning to drop C and vice versa without any problems.

Hope that clears things up.

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Ohhhhhhhh! Floyd Rose, I'm an idiot.

It's sorted out but it still gives me quite a bit of feedback. When i mute the strings it doesnt feedback though.

I'm getting fed up haha. Stupid grounds.

I typed in Gibson RD and Gibson RD artist in google images

Oh yeah! I see it now.

When I checked last week, I only found small pictures and I wasn't sure any of them would be any good.

Thanks!

Oops! Did I forget to mention that you can only measure a pot accurately if it's out of the circuit? Sorry 'bout dat! Your tone pot probably has one lug soldered to the pot case for ground, so they're all there, just not obvious. Hope I haven't done more harm than good here. Anyway, if you'll temporarily disconnect the ground from the pot, they'll read correctly.

Hehehe, I kind of figured. But since the people who had replied to my thread about my electrical problems told memy soldering really sucks, I cleaned everything up and really took the time to make it perfect. So I didn't really feel like desoldering right away ehehe.

Sorry, I normally don't step outside the rules of message boards, hence why I didn't read the rules.

Measure the resistance between the outside lugs - that's the pot's resistance. Keep in mind that most pots are at best 10% tolerance, so anything between 450K and 550K is a 500K pot.

Thanks Lovekraft!

Now for the weird part hehe, my tone pot is giving me .452, but this put doesn't really have a third lug. So I am just placing the meter on the metal part where the lug would be.

My volume pot is giving me 5.11

I have one that has no obvious inscription on it that would tell me if it's 500K or not.

I have a multimeter, is there anything I can do to figure out what it's value is?

i have an invader in the bridge and a 59 (?) in the neck. i love them. the invader in the bridge is GREAT for metal rythem.

Nice, I actually wanted to originally get the 59 put in the neck but as mentioned above went with the Jazz.

Really late on this one.

But check out this company called Bareknuckle.

Either the Warpig model or Miracle Man model.


They will both blow your mind.

That set is very popular and I like it. I use their LiveWire most of the time.

Did you change the pots, or cap...anything else in the chain?

I put in a .047 cap and switched one of my gibson pots to a 500k because i broke a piece off of the original. I am pretty sure gibson had 500K pots for the volume and tone before hand anyways.

I might change the tone pot as well, just in case, since there are no markings on it.

Not to mention the feedback I'm getting......

That set is very popular and I like it. I use their LiveWire most of the time.

Did you change the pots, or cap...anything else in the chain?

I put in a .047 cap and switched one of my gibson pots to a 500k because i broke a piece off of the original. I am pretty sure gibson had 500K pots for the volume and tone before hand anyways.

I might change the tone pot as well, just in case, since there are no markings on it.

I have a JB in the bridge and a Jazz in the neck.

For awhile I only had a JB in the bridge and it sounded better distorted. Now that I have the SH-2 installed in the neck, even with my switch on the bridge position, it sounds pretty different.

Not as much bite, bassier. The cleans are nothing short of amazing, however.

What are your experiences with them? What do you like/dislike?

I am sure none of you actually give a ****, but I re-soldered everything and it's working perfectly now.

You obviously haven't read the rules - may I suggest you do so now, before you get into trouble.

Usable pic

This is a usable pic to draw one in Cad. By measuring from a particular fret to the bridge High E string and knowing the scale lengt you can calculathe the scale factor to resize the drawing to 1:1 scale.

another one

Awesome, thanks a lot!

Google images didn't give me anything good...