spazzyone

this is a worse video than the last one i posted yet its longer so it shows more i ran the input level way to high and left the mike on the camcorder turned on "intended" all the guitars were run direct from a digitech rp6 and no effects added the the driver chain now here are the problems. mad clipping on guitars.you can barely hear me talk yet im three feet from the mike.yet you can here a very loud vehicle drive past my house. go figure now what you cant here me say the first part im just saying im using a clean setting "yet its distorted from the clipping" next im just kicking in "real"distortion if you pay attention when i start to play a chord you will notice that i start to detune one of the strings i did this to show you can get chords to sustain very well and you can also see on one part im having trouble getting the high E to sound wich is hard for at least two reasons one being string gauge the other is any open string try's to over power it. i know my playing sucked but i was not realy trying anything im just trying to show what this system. can do any how here it is all comments welcome

i would not recomend that you plane the body after you install the pickguard. if thats what you are refering to. i would have it surface sanded as to avoid tearout on the pickguard itself...just a thought

there are a few ways to do this one would be to tap into the main hot going to the output jack to the fetzer then back out to the driver but some one else will chime in with more proper details "PSW" maybe? i use a very differant setup than what has been posted so far but that is how mine i wired well sorta. i split the signal from the cable into a two way splitter. then one goes to my main amp the other to the driver amp.

i had the same problem dropping a dimarzio "Double Whammy" in my rg pos#2 was also dead on mine so i put back the original pickup and put the dimarzio in my rich it must be a color coding problem as i used the almost the same diagram as above

my guess would be one of the top four at the time Marshall,Orange,Fender or vox

+1 on the bosch jigsaw they were all i used when i built docks in florida i had to use it to cut the deck boards around the pilleings(spellcheck) and some of the boards were 3" thick others were ipe wich is hard as hell and the bosch cut it like butter. twice as good as the porter cable i had i said had because i forgot it one day and borrowed the bosch of a freind and it just kicked i think i paid around $140 for it but worth every penny

a modified single coil is how i made my first drivers http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d38/femf...uitar/aug-1.jpg http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d38/femf...uitar/aug-2.jpg take note how thin it is as Pete has stated this helps to control EMI

Dont forget they are also "fairly magical and exquisite"

just one switch? then Flea-bay or radioshack

boy do i feel dumb as i forgot about the "K" in the equasion and it's advertised at 14k but in reality its a little hotter but the ad is correct in that it is pretty clean sounding

not in my old neighborhood. they would have that striped as fast as you could clicky http://www.dynamobuzz.com/index.php?p=880&c=1 or http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-1...us-cities_x.htm HA! HA!

Crafty is very correct .it has to have some small effect. but could you here it? i doubt it it would be a very small frequency range that was effected and at the very worst it would help sustain due to less magnetic feild think about it this way unsolder and remove the cover from a P.A.F it will make a differance..yes but is it a good one it would lose that certain sound that every 59 lespaul owner loves and the "dummy slugs" most likely wont even contact the cover at all but a thin veneer won't act like the "Sheild" that a metal cover does it may lose some top end but i cant here it from my house

i wish i could do computer mockups like that cause thats awsome looking

this is my second favorite setup tool but i bought mine as well as the regular radius gauge http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Fretting_suppl...ius_Gauges.html

how about another pickgaurd with just the two pickup routs you want and no holes while the are not plentiful if at all availible but you could get one custom made from here http://home.comcast.net/~pickguards/ or you could make your own if its just the switch slot that bothers you try this for a switch http://www.starrlabs.com/guitar_electronics.html these things are not cheap though but this is also just a sugestion

not at all. the impeances are correct one coil reads 7.8 the other is 7.9 i just rounded of to 16 and i use the 16ohm on the amp its when i use the 4 or 8 that it does not work as good and as far as heat the first two coils i made got hot as hell after about 7-10 minutes. ive noodled with the rail combo for over 4 hours and no heat "i was very shocked at this aspect myself" now here is the kicker before this very post i double checked each coil for impedance and when i rewired the pickup i only rememberd red as hot and black as ground and could not remember the green and white so i just winged it now i get all strings including high E all the way to the 22nd fret (wee hoo) i also had to run a bridge ground as i got that famous single coil buzz then it hit me. it was only buzzing with the bridge on coil cut. the system does not seem to like series wireing from the bridge (freaky) as all the comercial units recomend a "HOT" humbucker but the one thing remains the G/B and high e strings go to harmonics at about the 14 to 16th frets. everywhere else it just sustains the other thing i discoverd is in the sustainiac patent. when i put the pickup in the middle position i started to get EMI not bad but it was there. so i tried putting differant things in between the two pickups and a thin peice of steel thats almost like the two peices on the patent and it almost stoped it but to eliminate it i had to roll the guitars volume back a notch or two wich also decreased the sustain effect but ill try again when i get more rails because i use my neck pickup alot ill put together a vid of how its all connected as a setup and more examples of how good it works. P.S on that other vid my amp was barely turned up as my neighbor was home and i have yet to crank it so im keeping my fingers crossed that it sounds just as good as the low volume and here is the add for the pickup http://cgi.ebay.com/Guitar-Parts-MINI-BLAD...1QQcmdZViewItem

glad to help

thats what im gonna do my next trip there i just did not want to show up there to ask a question if im not buying anything thanks to all for your help

thanks to all for the info though im still clueless it is hard as a rock not ebony hard but close im going to rip a little of one edge to get a feel for it and see how hard it is to cut but the only thing ill be able to compare it too is a peice of quartersawn hard rock maple so ill see wich is easier to rip with a new blade and the maple came from the exotic woods company wich i highly recomend for quartersawn neck blanks as mr gidwani has some excelent woods http://exoticwoods.com/ his are not cheap prices but he has awsome figured woods and his shop is less than two miles from my house. if anyone considers buying from him let me know and ill take pics of several examples of your needs and e-mail them to ya

just the rail unmodified. i tried it with a single coil also with minimal results as far as power it starts sustaining at a 1/4 of the volume knob what ever that would be and i plan on making my version as a floor operated unit and puting a rail in each of my guitars and using a din cable instead of the 1/4" jack kinda like a "snake" that ill slpit on the floorboard. i have not tried other wire combos yet but im hoping i can modify a volume pedal with a blend pot to get (toe down=sustain/toe up=harmonics) but not sure that can be done. i would also like to be able to switch it from driver back to pickup the best part was "no"EMI at all. i am having trouble on the high E at the 14th fret up but im using 10's i belive going up in gauge will solve this problem though as i can go to th 22nd on the B string lovecraft is correct that the dominet note in a chord phases out the other notes in a chord but not in every case as i can get a few chords to sustian very well and im talkin 3 note chords ill post another vid from a camcorder showing the whole signal path with beter audio with hopefully no latency. i also want to try effects in the chain again but my power supply to my digitech rp6 died (left it pluged in too long=poof) wich brings another question the rp6 was 12 volts A.C i have another 12 volt D.C power supply could i remove the diodes and capacitor and make it A.C? i know that can be done but i dont want to fry the rp6. they are both one and a half amps and as i posted earlier im gonna send you one of these rails within the next month as im getting three more you started this thread wich is how i came to this so i belive you earned at least one pickup(money has been tight as i collect ssdi for my bipolar condition and they switched my meds so i cant work for another 2 weeks and i have to work a meaningless job at least 24 hours a week to collect benifets) but that also gives me a lot of time to tinker. thanks again Pete

im not so sure it was as easy as slamming a p.a into a pickup but that is all i did. there are no effects inline on that clip the chourus and delay are from the spider 2x12 impedance is a must on this as 4/8ohm do not work as good. and no EMI at all. if there was you would here it when i made mistakes. i did try it in the middle position and started getting EMI but only when everything is wide open and it does not sustain as good that way either and some chords do sustain good others do not. octave's sustain great in all positions. and it is a lot of power as you can see in the vid where i have to tap other strings to mute them from sustaining and i will no longer play with high voltage in this experiment

here is one source not sure if they are the least expensive though http://www.partsexpress.com/webpage.cfm?&a...;WebPage_ID=143

it weighs 16lbs 18"x14"x2"as for splits none are visible its open grain but not as much as my B.C.Rich that i know is mahogany that wet pic does look very red but not as red in person though thanks for your input

Kinda reminds me of the playboy bunny some how in other words very "Sexy" love the curves

this is a horrible vidclip. i dont know how to set the video length on my digicam (never used it before) so it is short im not sure how i have the pickup wired but i belive it is paralell im still messing with it so ill add more latter this is just that little p.a amp output to "Pickup"@16ohms and an original spider with chourus/verb/pingpong delay opinions are suggested http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzeSyNjEtB0