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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 28, 2015 17:29:09 GMT -5
Nope, it sounds as though the cord is open. That is to say at least one of the conductors in the cable is fractured, probably next to the grommet in the chassis or the plug, and you can make contact across the fracture by waggling it about. If it was shorted then some parts of your amp would be subjected to voltages that they never anticipated and a fuse (or elcb / rcd) would blow.
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 27, 2015 16:54:12 GMT -5
Hi and welcome to the Nutzhouse.
I think you should have started a new thread for this.
Well, if you need to ask about something like this then it's tricky if not risky offering any advice. First off, unplug it from the wall outlet. The fact is though, this is a solid state amp which is nowhere near as lethal as a valve amp. I suspect that the lead goes through the chassis via a captive gripping grommet? From there it will go to soldered connections on the PCB. It really wont be too risky provided you can solder properly, there may even be screw terminals which would make it easier. Make a sketch of the lead connections to ensure that they go back onto the correct terminals. Normally, the chassis drops out after releasing some screws, often it's the grab handle attachment screws. Occasionally you may need to remove the control knobs and release the nuts securing the pot shafts to the control panel, but not on this amp I believe.
The thing is, if the mains lead is indeed shorted, I wonder how you know because the amp obviously doesn't work? and if it is definitely shorted then the amp may well have gone south too.
There will be some relatively large capacitors near to the point where the mains lead connects to the amp circuit. These will not be storing anything like such lethal static HT voltages as a valve amp would, but they should still be "crow-barred" (shorted) before working on the amp. If you don't know what I mean or how to do this (with your left hand behind your back) then rock on down to your nearest amp tech and get it done by someone else.
Please forgive me for assuming that you know nothing about this, it's not meant to be haughty or rude, I have to do it because electricity bites.
Whatever, be carefull.
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 21, 2015 15:15:35 GMT -5
+1 for "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys"!
"Somewhere Over The Rainbow"
C____________Em_______________F___Fm___C___C7 Somewhere- over the rainbow, way up high
F_______Fm__C__________A7_______Dm7_____G7_C_ There's- a- land. that I heard of, once in a lullaby.
Disclaimer: I took these chords from an ear worm whilst driving home from work along the world's largest orbital car park and augmented them by strumming through them when I arrived. Although I have written two major to minors, I suspect that I've exercised "artistic" licence with the first one. Whatever, it worked for me!
Again- apologies for the way that the Proboards app. renders the carefully laid out text on my Android tablet screen. e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 18, 2015 17:16:03 GMT -5
The "yodelling" is 50 seconds in.
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 13, 2015 12:52:13 GMT -5
"Rainy Night House"
I love this- surely needs no introduction?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Dm It was a
Bb rainy night,
Am we took a taxi-
A to your mother's
Dm home.
She went to
Bb Florida,
Am. and left you with your
A father's gun,
Dm alone.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
That's the best I can do on a "smart"'phone. Proboards thinks it knows better where the chord letters should go. Maybe on a PC I could do better, sorry guys and gals.
Although there's only the one minor to major, I love the way she strings five chords together minor-major-minor-major-minor
And that's before you start on her tunings and lyrics... Me I'm condemned to the sackcloth and ashes of imitation & plagiarism, but happy for all that, especially with this for inspiration.
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Feb 13, 2015 20:05:17 GMT -5
Nope, it was called "Billy's" bar, I can't remember the name of the road, but it ran parallel to South Grady Way in Renton, the other side of Wallmart from the Holiday Inn. Billy was English and wore it like a medal. Pat took the rise out of him constantly. I wrote "was" because it had shut down by my third trip. We decamped to "Benders Bar" up the hill. Pat said Billy's was doomed to close because Billy refused to challenge Hooters at their own game. He was probably correct. I got a taste for chowder over there, and a drink where you float a shot glass of vodka in a larger glass of Red Bull. Oh and Patrone of course. Happy daze. I regret not looking in at Warmoth while I was there. Work (occasionally) got in the way! I'm going to do another road trip in a couple of years time when I'm (shh) 60, finishing up in Seattle / Renton so who knows...
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Feb 13, 2015 3:53:38 GMT -5
As you can no doubt tell- I was quite struck by my times working in Renton. With the benefit of advancing years, I now know that I would have upped and gone to the USA in a heartbeat in my youth, but too many roots now and times were different then. (violins)
No piccie of the Hellburger, but although it was five years back, the memory of it does not fade. It was habañero peppers. jalapeno peppers and chillis. There must have been a burger or three in there too somewheres. We would walk into the bar and the waiter would say "Hi Pat" to my friend and "ya wanna go ta hell?" and he would reply "yeah I'm goin'a hell' Contrast that with the stuffy Brits! Thinking I wouldn't manage it, he asked what I thought of it 'Awesome" says I, "but you wouldn't want to eat it every day, would you?" "why not?" came the reply, "I ate one every day for two weeks once!" "But your body is a temple man..." I responded. "Nope, it exchoriates the tubes" was the sage reply.
I miss Pat.
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Feb 12, 2015 15:11:21 GMT -5
Well Mr. Oldham, you've definitely sounded a clarion call to arms here. Healthy life style? Whoa! I've reviewed my situation in line with the spirit of your missive. First I considered diet; Here I need to issue a disclaimer- this was taken in a roadhouse in Renton WA. This particular estimable dish was known as "The Widow Maker" and thanks to your timely left jab, I know better now, even if I don't wish to think about it. It came hot on the heels of a "Hellburger" I don't gotta tell ya! The really bad thing is how much I warmed to this after-work lifestyle foisted upon me by some wonderfully friendly and inclusive Seattle-ites. So I turned my attention to exercise; A pattern begins to emerge from the swirling mists of denial! Undeterred, I thought I'd better follow your maxim and take some exercise. What better way to burn off an excess calorie or two and tone up the "bingo wings" into the bargain- follow your lead and undertake a brief session of wood chopping? (emphasis on the word "brief" here, no one should rush into anything.) But this too ended in tears (figuratively speaking of course) I have decided that your guitar electrical wiring knowledge is not only virtually peerless (can you qualify peerless?) but a great deal safer advice too (at least in the short term...) Take care then, continue to exercise your light grip on all of us and we shall all benefit. e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Jan 15, 2015 18:21:47 GMT -5
You need square brackets each side of "img" and "/img" and you only need the url where the image is located. The url should fit between the first and last pairs of square brackets. (should "brackets" read as "parentheses"?)
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Dec 24, 2014 1:23:18 GMT -5
I know that my memory is becoming increasingly unreliable, but I believe that one of our luminaries has a (declared) birthday today?
Many happy returns Newey and many more to come!
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Dec 6, 2014 10:55:38 GMT -5
In some slight defence of Thomann, they do have an exemplary returns and customer service set up- I write from personal experience. All organisations will have a procedure to prevent their business model from being usurped by dishonest customers, they exist to survive after all's said and done and Thomann cannot be considered to be an exception. Organisations have no human traits of their own other than an insatiable desire to survive and make a profit. The problem you have with Messrs Thomann is one of not being able to speak to the correct human being within an enormous infrastructure. The bottom line here is that they made a profit from the sale of this guitar to you and it behoves them to see that you are satisfied with your purchase, otherwise they are taking money from you under false pretences. From the images that you have posted, it seems to me that the issue with your guitar (assuming correct intonation) is more one of the routed position of the neck pick up cavity, and this implies mutually exclusive requirements or a fundamental design error. I can clearly see those little lugs of timber that are intended to prevent the neck from being dragged under string tension into the area reserved for the neck pick up. I find it hard to imagine the profile of a neck attachment screw shank that has allowed its charge to drift so far south that it has impeded upon the neck pick up in this way, it has to be the neck pick up rout that is incorrect? This seems to me to be an unavoidable product of the optimum position of the neck pick up and the quest for a two octave neck isn't it? Sure I've probably got the wrong end of the stick because you have the advantage of having the whole sorry state in front of you and none of us have that privilege. I think that right is on your side with this one and stubborn assertiveness is your best friend. Having used litigation myself in the past, I well understand your reticence. I have matured sufficiently to realise that any solution that I can realise easily by my own efforts is preferable to that route! If there's an easy fix that you can effect, it's probably better for your mental well-being in the final analysis. I'm on your side here GD, even if what I've written comes across otherwise...
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Dec 6, 2014 6:23:27 GMT -5
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Post by b4nj0 on Dec 3, 2014 13:23:51 GMT -5
Just a thought 'dude, I have the self same manifestation on one of my Firebird pick ups. I don't recall a response to C1's query as to whether you can rock the pick up with your finger(s). All of my Yamaha hums have two height adjusting screws on one side and one on the other. Accordingly, they do not exhibit this "fault". I figure that I cannot get the 'bird pick up to sit level with just the one screw each side, although I haven't ruled out trying a wider diameter spring with the ends of the coils machined to sit flat each side. Maybe try some Fender type tapered springs instead of those slinky little Gibson "solutions"?
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 30, 2014 11:04:31 GMT -5
C1 is correct. The smallest that I've done is 6-32 UNC thread-locked and they're a pain. With a combination of worn insertion tools, thread locking and sloppy technique, I tend to waste more than I put in successfully, and that is in the bigger sizes. Too, you'd have to tap out with the appropriate tool to accept the 3mm Helicoil, you may as well just tap out to 4mm.
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 25, 2014 14:49:44 GMT -5
Assuming you've isolated the amp and the cable, does it exhibit this effect on all pick ups, or is the bridge pick up alone unaffected?
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 20, 2014 16:51:26 GMT -5
Newey, I'm watching on a 7" tablet and maybe I can't see too well, but at 2.24 it looks like buttons rather than keys. Whatever, I can't rise to your challenge. +1 for a great left field thread!
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 20, 2014 13:03:29 GMT -5
They looked like button melodians to me. Perhaps that's another example of American English? "Whatever!" I can hear you all saying...
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 16, 2014 9:55:51 GMT -5
I envisaged the"blower" switch as a kind of bedfellow of the kill switch, ie, all or nothing. When you hit that switch in anger, you want to know what you're getting without any caveats. Newey's remarks are fine and as I anticipated, present a more elegant solution. The engineer is one who can achieve for 5 cents what any fool can manage with 5 bucks!
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 16, 2014 8:12:06 GMT -5
You need to introduce another switch between the coil splitting switch and the bridge pickup. Trouble is, it will need to be a four pole change-over otherwise you will have to keep in mind as to which position the coil split switch has been left. Moreover I would suggest a break-before-make switch to avoid any chance of noisy switch actions although this may not be of concern in reality.
I suspect that is the reason that you cannot find a "blower switch" together with a circuit that includes a coil split facility?
1/ The pickup hot, coil split pair wires and "ground" connections will have to be re-directed, one to each of three of the new switch poles.
2/ The other side of the switch taking the pickup hot lead and ground wires directly to the jack socket, isolating the coil split leads.
3/ Finally, you need to use the fourth pole to break the connection between the volume pot output tag and the hot tag on the jack socket. This is to avoid "hanging" pickups.
You live and learn! I had to Google "blower switch" in this context to find out what it was. I don't know whether any of the more experienced Nutz can make a better (ie, simpler!) suggestion because this does seem hard going to me! As an example, you could wire it for master tone and use a 6 pole 2 way rotary switch instead?
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 10, 2014 14:05:19 GMT -5
If you look at your master volume circuit, you will see that the switch has five wafers, each connected to a soldering terminal. The one connected to the middle goes to the pot "ground" return. The outside two go one to each pick up hot lead. On the switch in the photo, it looks as though of the four tags (looks like two pairs) you should count them 1-2-3-4 and short numbers 2 and 3 together sending this to the pot "signal" tag, and therefore 1 and 4 should be the ones going to the pick up hot leads. This means that the tag on the opposite side, being the only one left must (as Sherlock would have said) be the ground. These switches vary so the foregoing is an attempt to relate the switch in the image with your proposed master volume circuit. If you are going to use individual pick up pots then the outside tags should go one to each pot "signal" tabs. I hope that I've interpreted what you want correctly and that this helps.
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Oct 30, 2014 2:20:51 GMT -5
My (modern) TS808 came packaged with just such an adaptor. Maybe the Ibanez distributors in your region could help?
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Oct 29, 2014 13:47:07 GMT -5
If you have access to a GDO or its modern FET equivalent, (from your posts I suspect that is possible?) you could dip it in parallel with a known capacitor? Lacking an inductance scale on any of my meters, that's how I do it. Does rely on a close tolerance capacitor that will fall into a range with sufficient band spread to give a sensible reading, but it will separate a 1.5H from a 3.0H etc. e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Oct 29, 2014 2:20:06 GMT -5
Guys he had a fabulous singing voice too. Eric would have loved to have his voice. He was classically trained too- in piano was it? many bass players seem to float between bass and piano. A lot of departures recently, but a giant this time.
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Oct 24, 2014 15:38:31 GMT -5
+1 for the red Jazz3!
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Oct 22, 2014 15:27:47 GMT -5
An interesting notion. I'm with you on this, normally eschewing the bridge pup Maybe peeps are subconsciously going for a brighter sound from a darker sounding, perhaps mahogany based t@ne instrument, or seeking to tame an over-bright sound from a more shrill instrument. It made me realise that I seldom go for the bridge pup with a Lester or when playing an S-type, but oddly enough rarely go for the neck pup with a T-type. I've always assumed that this is because I'm not getting the best out of a bridge pup on an S-type in a low volume environment and a (possible) prejudice against the neck pup on a T-type. (but of course normally there's no tone shaping on an S-Type bridge pup.) Combinations of any are always acceptable to these ears. The only exception here is with my Esquire where I don't have a lot of option! (although that one has a lifting fret and therefore seldom gets played) Perhaps I'm just getting too old! I bought a detached house principally so I could wind the wick up, but now find I can't stand "loud' for very long anyway. When I was young I could happily crank and wail away for hours on end.
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Sept 21, 2014 2:57:58 GMT -5
If you have a dual channel amp with multiple inputs where the two channels are out of phase with each other (like a Vox AC30), you can use a compressor such as the MXR Dynacomp where the input is out of phase with the output, and use a patch lead across two unused amp channel input sockets. This works. Richard Thompson nailed this technique. I built a compressor from a kit that emulates this approach by allowing you to mix in the wet with the dry signal actually inside the pedal. I asked the company for a circuit diagram but they wouldn't provide me with one. I was sore tempted to "reverse engineer" it from the photocopy of the circuit board but never got around to it. Google "Paranormal" and / or "Dinosaural" and see what comes up. Because of their reticence, I wouldn't dream of posting an image of it on a forum, but I don't mind PM-ing a .pdf of what I have (if I can find it quickly enough that is!) because you might have lost your instructions and needed to fix some loose hook up wires... It's a neat bit of kit but good luck trying to track one down, and mine's going with me to the grave!
edit: Try googling "Slide Rig" or maybe "Sliderig" I'm not sure whether this will do what you want, but it contains two compressors and may have facilities that meet your needs. It's also very well thought of by those "in the know" trying to nail Lowell George's elusive t0n3.
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Sept 13, 2014 6:57:10 GMT -5
Don't forget to make sure that your passport is able to be read "electronically" because otherwise they may not let you on to the island...
Actually, with Scotlandshire getting ready to jump ship, and the Welsh, Yorkies and Cornish (and some say the residents of Londonshire) making ready to shuffle off, this little island will soon become deserted!
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Sept 10, 2014 15:17:33 GMT -5
I'll be happy so long as no one brings any bagpipes...
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Aug 28, 2014 13:10:36 GMT -5
You could do far worse than to send it to Tim at Bare Knuckle Pickups in the UK. (no connection etc.)
e&oe
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Post by b4nj0 on Aug 20, 2014 15:17:00 GMT -5
Yeah I noticed that as well. I don't know what the scale length of the Epis is, was or should be- and with a wrap around bridge in the mix too. Figured it was probably a short scale neck but left the thought there.
e&oe
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