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Post by b4nj0 on May 13, 2022 2:39:42 GMT -5
Not least Guitar Freak. Well done John, it's appreciated.
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 21, 2022 6:43:02 GMT -5
This happened to me coming up five years ago, but being 60 at the time I just decided to call it all quits and draw on pensions. I hope you get it all put behind you soon. And yes- fuel prices are crippling here right now.
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 17, 2022 4:35:07 GMT -5
I have the type on the right on an SG2000, an SA2000 and a Firebird, and all have eventually suffered from spring fatigue, and this means that the switch toggle vibrates when playing in the middle position. Flip to either side of centre and the spring has a load again and the buzzing goes away. OK, I admit it is only noticeable when playing acoustically, which is not how the instruments that they are found on are intended to be used, but it is irritating. I have long since resorted to leaving the switch in the middle position (remove or at least reduce the static load on the spring) when not being played in order to try to prevent or slow down this phenomenon. That said, as examples of "old school" design, they do at least "look" more robust, but as you'd expect, the Chinese have a way of making beauty only skin deep ...
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 13, 2022 9:17:31 GMT -5
I see your "Tapestry" and I raise you "The Würm".
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Post by b4nj0 on Feb 14, 2022 5:09:36 GMT -5
At least one of the tracks on "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" saw that Frusciante fellow mic. up an unamplified electric, and I have a zebrawood neck through Firebird which is a really heavy beast, yet it gets that Tokai "Springysound" when played acoustically. It is actually a dog of an instrument in its ex-works presentation and really would benefit from some "luthier" TLC. Oh dear Gibson, oh dear me.
Good link BTW SG, (yet) another sub!
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Post by b4nj0 on Feb 13, 2022 19:34:51 GMT -5
I have a compound radius stainless-steel frets Warmoth quarter-sawn neck on a one piece Schecter Hawaiian Koa body, and it too sounds dull unplugged. It has a bone nut installed by a good "luthier" in place of the ex-works thing Warmoth installed. By contrast, my much reviled 1973 Strat sings nicely unplugged, even with its bullet truss rod, three bolt neck and "plastic skin" (how Roka's in Covent Garden who refinned it for me described it when I collected it.) So, you're not alone, but hey- it's an electric and what counts is how it sounds cranked up a bit.
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Post by b4nj0 on Jan 17, 2022 5:43:56 GMT -5
1/ Start off with brandy new (and not bargain bucket) strings. It's pointless to try to set intonation with old and / or dirty strings.
2/ If you find that a wound string refuses to intonate within the amount of adjustment available, see 1/ above.
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Post by b4nj0 on Jan 13, 2022 5:19:09 GMT -5
Showing my ignorance, I have soldered guitars and electronics for about 45 years now, and it's only in the last two years that I've discovered how much easier it becomes with a little flux. I guess I've always used rosin cored solder so it seemed superfluous. Onwards and upwards huh?
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Post by b4nj0 on Jan 13, 2022 5:15:28 GMT -5
Ah, a Kebabocaster.
Monkeys/typewriters/Shakespeare.
What an infectious smile that gal has!
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Post by b4nj0 on Jan 12, 2022 16:19:08 GMT -5
I may be guilty of making assumptions here but it sounds like you're putting flux on the tip? In my world you "tin" the tip with solder, and the flux is intended for the job in hand?
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Post by b4nj0 on Jan 2, 2022 5:21:44 GMT -5
Messrs. Fender LLC and their ilk, and predatory lawyers everywhere:
Send for Billy Bob ...
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Post by b4nj0 on Dec 24, 2021 5:39:55 GMT -5
Saturnalian Salutations / condiments of the seasoning.
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Post by b4nj0 on Dec 24, 2021 5:22:56 GMT -5
Total Yamaha fanboy here.
I have a Pacifica 904, a 1977 SG2000, a 1982 SA2000, an LS400vt all solids acoustic and a 2009 CG190 all solids classical.
Cyn1 is right on target about the neck fitment going by my PAC 904. It was definitely true about PAC-type "sleepers", (Yamaha have made many idiosyncratic types that can be described as such) but I think that horse may have bolted a good few years ago.
My '904 has barely half an inch of timber shelf in the body below the neck pocket but does that guit fiddle ever sing.
With advancing years I tend to fall back on acoustic guitar, and the LS400vt was my main squeeze right up until I acquired a ludicrously more expensive handbuilt jobbie, and you know how that story goes ...
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Post by b4nj0 on Nov 7, 2021 4:36:51 GMT -5
Wait 'till you "discover" orphan bits of braid in your socks from coaxial cable ;<D
No, don't ask me how.
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Post by b4nj0 on Oct 11, 2021 7:51:10 GMT -5
I've looked and cannot see where ChrisK explained about using the same technique to provide for the pots, but of course that's my own omission. If you have the understanding of such complex series parallel arrangements to do that, I suspect you have no need to go down this route anyway?
During the course of wiring up a circuit (which may involve remedial work, personal inspiration, or understanding someone else's vision, I think I'd ring out the switch(es) and go from there. It was indeed a brilliant notion from ChrisK, and his kind of blue sky thinking comes along but once in long while, but I cannot envisage a scenario when I'd feel compelled to go those extra few furlongs to arrive at the same post.
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Post by b4nj0 on Oct 11, 2021 4:20:34 GMT -5
It is a good basic approach from ChrisK, but it's more a case of proving Ohm's law than identifying pickup topology isn't it? To accomplish it is necessary to first go inside, secondly temporarily eliminate the pickups and thirdly put in resistors. At that point of the surgery, anyone can just look at the wiring (and sketch it down if need be.) If no labeling or sketch is made, there's always the 50:50 chance the pickups might go in A over T, and those odds don't change in your favour if you have coil split wiring.
In any parallel arrangement of resistors, the resultant value is always less than the lowest value of resistor, so even with the pots turned to the extreme of being effectively out of circuit, I wonder about that unless you have no load potentiometers. In short it seems to be a theoretical exercise to me, but as ChrisK would acknowledge, if'n I'm shootin' feldegarbe, plenty of folks on here will step up to save me from the ignominy of persevering with that viewpoint? (in other words, basically I'm theorising too!)
Edit: Also, this will only be reliable if a meter with in excess of 20K Ohms/Volt is used, otherwise the meter will load the circuit and the readout cannot be relied upon. Any digital readout meter will be fine, but a needle meter needs to be much more sensitive than a 5 bucks Radio Shack job.
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Post by b4nj0 on Oct 7, 2021 12:07:24 GMT -5
Lay the (eg) resistors side by side, and solder or twist the legs at each end together. You now have a configuration that has two components having only one connection at each "end". Series is like an end to end daisy chain. You can of course have combinations of the above.
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Post by b4nj0 on Sept 28, 2021 11:04:37 GMT -5
In the daytime, you can't see Uranus.
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Post by b4nj0 on Sept 27, 2021 15:13:31 GMT -5
Well howzatt? As of just now, GN2 was still first featured Proboards forum when I logged on using a browser!
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Post by b4nj0 on Sept 15, 2021 13:51:05 GMT -5
Well, when I'm using a static mat and wrist strap, the "earth" pin is an obvious way to find a very low potential with respect to "ground". It matters very little for the guitar wiring that interests us, but it matters a a great deal for anything that comes in a static sensitive bag. I may have missed something obvious here but anyone that can offer a different take on it is welcome. We have PME (Protective Multiple Earthing) over here in The UK, and it is actually dangerous to introduce another "earth" alongside PME due to the risk associated with the potential difference in a neutral failure scenario. Same goes for antenna grounds /returns, So when I saw a two-prong plug, that was my first thought. Both my Weller soldering (soddering?) station and the cheap chinese one that I had to buy to repair the Weller have grounded tips.
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Post by b4nj0 on Sept 15, 2021 2:54:55 GMT -5
Step right up, step right up. Batteries not included, free brochure, How low can we go!
My trusty Weller soldering station gave up the ghost a couple of years ago and I found myself in the invidious Catch22 position of having to buy a soldering iron to fix a soldering iron! The first thing I noticed was that the new one took a lot longer to come up to temperature, then I noticed how exceptionally beneficial it was to have the silicone rubber lead on the Weller. I took the base stand / temperature control part of the soldering station apart, and its construction was way better than the Weller's. Finally I noticed that there's a reason it has a thin silicone rubber sleeve- it gets hot!
I can guess that like my cheap replacement it has a relatively stiff lead compared to a Weller's silicone example, but it shows a two prong conductor in the images, I take it that it is not static safe C?
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Post by b4nj0 on Sept 8, 2021 9:05:59 GMT -5
Everyone has a bad day. Ask me how I know ... but everyone has a tale to tell. Amy Winehouse had to deal with a crowd singing along to a poignant number in addition to her own demons on the day. Joan is a super songwriter who has been able to rope in top drawer session guys and she's a really underated guitar player too because few expect that from her as a songstress.
I've been to a fair few rubbish gigs in my time, but that is only half the story and I kind of suppress the bad memories! To be in the moment with a great artist is to he able to say you were there. Many folks *claim* to have been "there" with Jimi, but from what I've seen he was a bit messy putting it mildly. Then he would find himself in a scenario where everything clicked, cross all the Tee-s and dot all the I-s and you would be truly happy that you'd persevered and would dine out on it ever after. I can forgive anyone a bad day, not the least Joan.
Perhaps she should have stuck with the Ovation though!
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Post by b4nj0 on Sept 2, 2021 16:55:51 GMT -5
+10 for omitting the definite article.
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Post by b4nj0 on Aug 27, 2021 8:28:29 GMT -5
My Stefan Sobell "New World" acoustic, but since I'll only ever be a legend in my own lunchbox, I guess it's irrelevant?
"If'n ya have to ask the price, ya can't afford it!"
Lists, lists, lists ...
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Post by b4nj0 on Aug 15, 2021 4:58:27 GMT -5
Great work @sstlover. Broadly speaking there are "starting", "taper" and "plug" (or "finishing" taps. Over the years working for a string of mean employers, I regularly made my own 'plug" or "finishing" taps in just the way you describe. However, I would usually use a "Linisher" which is a tensioned sanding belt running on tyres/tires, because unless properly dressed and maintained, and trained operator access is regimented, a bench grinder can be an unexpected lethal device.
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Post by b4nj0 on Aug 14, 2021 5:03:43 GMT -5
unreg, I'm not sure whether we're at crossed purposes here, but I'm going to assert that all the electrical tape does (I presume you mean PVC insulating tape?) is to prevent undesired electrical shorts inside the cavity. It does not and cannot block "electrical signals in the air, like our bodies give off" as you describe it. At best it could be thought of as a dielectric, but dielectrics pass alternating current to one extent or another anyway. I cannot conceive of electrical signals given off by flesh and bone. If the tape acted as a shield for that, then all use of radio as we know it would cease to exist. Perhaps you mean the way that buzz reduces when you grasp something grounded on the guitar? Even then, the electrical tape inside the cavities on bare conductors or metal would have no effect. No way am I lauding it up and behaving like your typical internet tröll, I just can't sit back and allow that to pass by unchallenged. We had this out just recently with nail varnish supposedly acting as a screen. I unreservedly apologise to you if this comes across as rude, it is absolutely not intended that way Sir/Madam, it's all about the pursuit of understanding. e&oe ...
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Post by b4nj0 on Aug 5, 2021 8:09:27 GMT -5
Hey col, my bad (as they say) I'm not up to speed with protocols even now! No one can hear electro magnetic waves until they are mixed down to a frequency (either directly or through one or more intermediate frequencies) that can then be passed through a transducer (such as a loudspeaker) that creates the sound pressure waves which our ears can respond to as audio. e&oe ...
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Post by b4nj0 on Aug 5, 2021 4:53:36 GMT -5
They are not audio waves, they're electro magnetic waves that become rectified and then manifest as audio waves, sawtooth going by your description!
Occasionally you might encounter the "rusty bolt" effect where the corrosion between two dissimilar metals acts like a depletion layer. This resembles a crude diode which then rectifies electro magnetic waves and is subsequently amplified by the amp to an audio level, but on the balance of probabilities that's not the case here. This is more like direct pick up by the amp wiring, but both amps? Hmm. As I said earlier- remote diagnosis is a can of worms.
Here's a thought; try a portable transistor radio on AM (remember them!) with the volume set high and tuned between stations. This will have an internal directional ferrite rod antenna. Walk around the room and house altering it's position this way and that and see whether you can detect the noise, and if you can subsequently rotating it to null it out. The null(s) will be off the ends of the ferrite rod. If you're lucky you might be able to trace the source directly, or even crudely triangulate it. Just an idea to try.
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Post by b4nj0 on Aug 4, 2021 15:56:51 GMT -5
Well I'm not going to dig my heels in unreg because I don't have the benefit of your hands-on direct experience in this, nor frets for that matter, so I'm just another typical internet commenter destined to obscurity, but dwelling on the reference to Bakelite, I reckon there's at least some chance someone is thinking of "insulating" as opposed to "shielding" here? Hey- help a guy out here! I suspect ChrisK would murmur "Feldegarb" under his breath? e&oe ...
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Post by b4nj0 on Aug 4, 2021 4:33:13 GMT -5
Nail polish preventing unwanted noise from "getting in"? I'd have to get my head around that one. Sure it would serve to protect against corrosion, and we used to do just that with so-called "blue varnish" on aircraft wiring "grounding points", but unless it is heavily laden with conductive metal flakes (some indeed do appear to be!) or like guitar cavity screening paint, I find it difficult to visualise any noise amelioration effect whatsoever.
As already hinted at, a check at a friend's house (not just next door ...) should exclude the house wiring. After that it's down to tracking down the offending item(s). The cure may be a whole other enchilada, and might involve convincing someone with no problem of their own to play ball.
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