StratDudeDan

wow. there is a lot more involved in these transformers than i thought. i knew the power and resistance was important, as well as the type of wire and whatnot, but i really didn't know that the sound of the whole amp can be totally or even noticably altered by it. i'm gonna do some more reading up before i dive in, but i thank everyone for their comments and i hope i sparked some old interest in tube amp building. i think it'll be fun.

first question: i like it. and my friend wants one, so i'm gonna build myself a practice one before i charge him to build his. secondly, i've accidentally touched the tube on a TV, a timing chip from an old computer, and popped myself on every type of house voltage in a normal house (yes, even 220V). i know it hurts, and i avoid doing it best i can. always. thanks for the luck, and thanks for the help.

something new from me, i've figured i'm gonna try and build my own amp. yeah, that's right, you heard me. i'm unintelligently starting off with a 1962 Marshall Reissue Valve/Trem combo. problem is, i can't find what transformers are in there, and if i can't find that, i can't make 'em... the schematics are here, there are three "T's" in there, but one is a choke. T1 and T2 confuse me, however. i don't know if this information is able to even be gotten ahold of, if i could buy these somewhere (i do know how to make transformers, though, and if i don't, i have a couple books that help me out when i run into stuff like this...). any and all help is cool, if this gets busy or way over the top for some people less informed in the electronics world and would end up confusing them, feel free to PM me, as well.

well this one time... no wait that was the strap hit myself with the mid-neck on my bass. broke my nose. i jump too much when i play. however, i've gone back and forth with my posts through this a lot, but i'm gonna have to go with girlfriend today. i love that girl, and she loves the fact that i love guitars. it's one of my defining features. dan + guitars = right. granted, dan + becca > dan + guitars...

money is just too fun to pass up, though sex is nice, and rock n roll isn't bad either. drugs, whatever's your thing, but money is definately the option for me.

That would be me i thought there were 2 #1's or something weird like that. someone was actually a member of this forum before it was a forum or something goofy like that. i read it here somewhere. wes and brian were talking about it. maybe i overheard them on the phone or something... maybe it was because wes talks in his backyard all the time... and i'm living there...

when i started refinishing, i looked up a lot of stuff online and found the main site. i had no idea there was a forum, too, though. that took me much longer to dig up. most of the time was spent oogling over the amazing craftsmanship in the tutorials and reading up a lot about finishing and supplies. just a random stumble led me here, however. my first online forum, ever.

i started sanding after a: i passed out from the chemicals i used on my second refinish and b: i needed to get my shoulders back into shape after i beat the hell out of them swimming. worked wonders, and i still sand today. i have different methods, though. flap-wheels on a drill, about 120-grit are wonderful. usually, the 120 is a little bit too soft, so i occasionally bust out the mouse sander w/ a 100 or 120 and that takes most of the bulk off, but once i start to see real wood (not the sanding sealer, i even go through that), i go straight to a 400 grit and nothing coarser, progressing by hand only.

does that involve similar things as shotput and javelin? does it hurt? can i see you do the spinny thing sometime?

here and http://acebro.proboards11.com/ <-- home of "The Dark-Knights" from WarCraft III, the "Knights of Something" (not really, i only know it as KoS) from Diablo II, and "The Guild of the Dark-Knights" from World of Warcraft. i think we have something from Neverwinter Knights, but i don't know anything about that game so i don't care.

draygon and BLS, guess what... i hail from a city in Illinois they call Rockford, which is basically Chicago, just with no jobs, dirty streets, and smaller buildings.

local wood store happens to have a lot of aspen in a lot of really conveniant sizes for sale relatively cheap (relatively as to maple, mahogany, and cherry). however, the store sorts its wood by hardness, and it was as follows: oak, maple, cherry, aspen, pine with it being right next to pine, as well as me not knowing a whole lot about it, it kinda scared me away from buying immediately. but for the price, i would really like to pick some up and use it (if nothing else) as a 1/2" or 1/4" top or back. info and suggestions, please.

i have no guitar amp. i've been practicing all my guitar through a Gorilla bass amp and i borrow my friend's Ibanez half stack when i need to play out. i'm fine with borrowing, but i would like to build my own practice amp. does anyone have or know where to find schematics or wiring diagrams or some sort of way for me to design my own little amp. something between 25-50 watts at most (i do like to turn it up a little every now and then) and can they hook me up with it?

draw up an SG or LP lookalike and send it in.

Bam's CKY crew, baby! Viva La Bam is so much funnier than any of those other pieces of crap. family fun PLUS all the stupidity of those other shows. what's not to love?

toss-up between green tea, no sweetener, and mountain dew. depends on what i'm doing that night. also, there are variances among those. tea from boiling water, from warm water off the stove-top, microwave, etc. bottled, canned, 2-liter, or fountain mountain dew all taste different. if i'm sanding, usually bottled dew. painting, i like a microwaved cup of tea on cold nights and 2-liter dew on hot ones. sketching, fountain dew all the way. movie, canned dew, popcorn, and chili. mmm...

looks nice, wouldn't pay for one. i'm just getting very tired of the same old "lp" "sg" "strat" and "tele," styles. the v never looked that good to me, though i do really like explorer styled guitars. i would build a strat or sg. i would play an lp. i wouldn't touch a tele with a 10 foot pole, v? you mean they made those after the 80's? and "where did you find that explorer? i want one." so there are six major guitar styles, with just about zero variances in factory guitars after that. think of something new! you are million dollar companies! you can do this...if FOX, CBS, ABC, and NBC can crank out 12 brand new, never been heard of TV shows a year, usually 1 or 2 of which catch wind and get loved by millions, you too can take a risk on 10-12 new styles a year, even if only 1 or 2 hit it big.

question: would this work if one were to use different colored LED's, i.e. green for the bottom 5, yellow for 3, then the top two being red? this would just make it look like a "normal" dB meter. would there be a need to put resistors on them? if so, ~ what impedance on what color. if i did need resistors, would i need a power supply, then? or is this just one of those magical circuits i could never figure out in freshman electronics 2?

basically gonna be 3 humbuckers, just with evenly spaced coils that can be turned on and off. btw, that's what i'd do. use a normal tone/volume circuit, then just have on/off switches for each coil.

k, everyone got started talking about LED's and crazy things to do with 'em, and it inspired me. this would probably really freaking hard to do, then again, maybe not. but think of a mackie sound board. on the right side (or middle for big boards) they have all the group controls, master volume, etc, and the little LED strip for how many dB's you're pushing. maybe not in dB's, but have that same little LED meter happening on the guitar somewhere, the louder it is, the higher up the meter it goes. when natural gain starts to bite, have it go into the red, so it distorts, which is what happens on the mackies. overload = distortion. ha ha. i like it. i'm gonna do some research on that, now.

if you look up the "high-cut/no-cut" thread, that's my dream, pretty much. a couple switchable tone circuits, only one pot for volume, a single coil on the neck, a humbucker on the bridge with each coil selectable, so you can have neck, neck+hum, neck+hum (inside coil), neck+hum (outside coil), hum, hum coil 1, hum coil 2. then with several preset tone options all run off switches (or switch if you wanna do something strat style), the possibilities w/ that thing would be endless. mwahaha. pics of my strat and my friends Warmoth strat w/ this style elec's should be up within a coupla months.

i've actually used Garage Band to record two albums already. sounds shady, yes, but i have. the groups didn't want to do anything fancy, so i just simplified and used the cheap stuff. now i just use it when i get bored and want to mix down a techno beat or something. i also have Soundtrack, which comes with Final Cut Pro as post editing folley software. i've used that for some stranger applications in the past. but i learned everything on Logic Pro Audio 5. my dad is a beta tester, so not only did we get the software, we got the "software dongle" that doesn't exist for free. btw, garage band is only cool if you have the right "live-to-digital" interfaces. if you just plug your 1/4" into a USB hub, you're not getting the full effect of it. there are several small boards out there that are compatible with Garage Band, and i think Apple is coming out with one soon, even, that you can use that make it all the better.

from left to right, a hardcore modded out strat that i'm in the process of modding again. getting a Fender Vintage Noiseless single-coil on the neck and whatever the bridge pickup in in the Gibson 335 is in the bridge (i'm just buying it off my friend who's getting his rebuilt). custom electronics, one volume, followed by a no-cut switch, then a high-cut/high-pass switch. the humbucker will have both coils switchable, so i can have one or the other or both. wee! next is a Yamaha acoustic i found in my mom's closet. i love that guitar more than anything in the world. i dated it around 73-76. the most beautiful sounding acoustic i have ever played. on my other side, in my hand, is my Dean Razor Neck-thru Custom Series, #732 of 800. they normally sold for upwards of $3000, while the standard series sold between $600-700. i paid that price for it. i love ripping off guitar stores with what they don't know they have. and finally, that's a 1938 Kay M-1 worth upwards of $12,000. it was a gift to me from one of my parent's elderly friends. he was moving and hadn't played since the second world war, so he wanted to give it to someone that would play it and take care of it. he chose me. he also gave me the original Kay bow that came with it, upping the value quite a bit, and an Albert Nurnberger, pencil cut, ebony frog bow. German grip, worth around $4000-4500 by itself. that's getting sold 'cause the Kay bow is great enough for me and i need the money. *not pictured* a black Peavey Foundation 4-string that i still love playing, it's just too heavy and my bro uses it for his band. a fun little baritone uke that i use for jazz guitar soloing. more fun and better sounding that you think.

you sebelius people should be shot. lol. i can't stand the interface on that one. yes, it looks pretty, but nothing else.

i have never worked with coil taps before, and i can't find a schematic where i'm able to in essence isolate what one would look like, so if someone could help me out here, i need a schematic for a single coil neck, humbucking bridge (w/ each coil tapable, i was told this was possible by using a 3-way on/on/on), then to a volume pot and finally, i have my own tone circuit, so i'm looking for everything up to the volume and i don't need anything after that. hopefully, the mighty gods of guitar electronics won't look down on me and laugh at my pathetic attempts to create like the best of them...