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Post by b4nj0 on Aug 3, 2021 9:15:12 GMT -5
From your last post where you stated that just the amps alone were affected, and the fact both are affected, it's safe assume that you can exclude the guitar's wiring. Do you have any fluorescent lamps that may have a dodgy start up capacitor? Do you have any of those dreaded touch control lamps? Have you (or a reasonably close neighbour) installed anything new recently? Roof solar panels with charge controllers? Even solar charged garden lights, anything. Any chargers that incorporate switch mode PSUs, particularly if left plugged in but with no load. Anything charger-like with boost/buck circuitry? You need to cast your net wider with an open mind and remote diagnosis is just like throwing darts blindfolded. Try isolating the lighting at the consumer unit, that will narrow down things, at least in your own house! Welcome to EMI / EMC smog! I've spent a tidy sum on ferrite toroids here. Although my requirements are a little different, many solutions are the same in nature. col's "one at a time' advice is sound, but apply it generally and not just to guitars an amps. e&oe ...
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Post by b4nj0 on Aug 2, 2021 18:09:36 GMT -5
I just keep on and on looking at how the tone pot is configured. Seems to me that when the capacitor is out of circuit, the whole 500K tone potentiometer is then in parallel with the the volume pot? Also, since they're both log pots, your chosen "ground" ends are at opposite ends of the tapers? You're looking for something that is independent of the switch and pickup wiring which clearly works fine, hence the earlier obvious flipped output socket comment, but what about the tone pot which is also independent of the switch and therefore common to all pickup selections? Apart from (obviously) no more tone control, what happens if you just temporarily disconnect one end of that inter pot wire? There are many ways to configure a tone pot and capacitor- so-called 50's and modern spring to mind, but I don't recognise either of those in your current topology. I have a Pacifica 904 and I'm tempted to dig out its wiring diagram now because maybe that's how Yamaha do things, and I'm just bring dumb amongst my betters here? As noted, at present, it looks like the capacitor is theoretically out of circuit at zero treble cut with the aforementioned effect of the full pot track being parallel with the volume pot, but as the tone is rolled off, the capacitor is in parallel with the tone pot track it is straddling, and in turn that varying tuned RC circuit is in series with the rest of the tone pot track? Sure it varies the capacitance, but not like a conventional potential divider and it has me scratching my head. If nothing else I might learn something here! I would lift the capacitor from the tone pot "ground" tag and connect it to the input tag on the volume pot. Remove the inter pot wire from the volume pot and with it "ground" the opposite tag on the tone pot. I would not rely upon any foil shield for "grounding". I suspect that frets was thinking along similar lines? And it's pretty late here, so I apologise to the group if'n I'm spouting twaddle ... Things might look different in the morning ... ;<D e&oe ...
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Post by b4nj0 on Jul 22, 2021 14:33:32 GMT -5
;<D
From memory, I've never played the "A" side! No idea what it's title is either.
Sigh. The genius responsible for THAT bass on "Walk on the Wild Side" ...
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Post by b4nj0 on Jul 22, 2021 2:03:19 GMT -5
YouTube often fails. I've never found "Flanker" by Herbie Flowers, and even more disappointingly the sublime "Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes" by Kevin Ayers. I've frequently considered "ripping" my vinyl 7"-ers but since there's probably an intellectual property rights elephant in the room it's never happened yet. I may do it for my own convenience though ...
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Post by b4nj0 on Jul 18, 2021 10:23:16 GMT -5
The Sackville Bagginses!
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Post by b4nj0 on Jul 14, 2021 8:35:40 GMT -5
May be of interest to some ... I built an attenuator following the information on this web page (well I did it from the magazine actually.) guitar.com/guides/diy-workshop/diy-workshop-build-your-own-attenuator/My effort is visually identical to the one described in the link. It works like a trooper although I have some concerns with how it manages to dissipate the excess as heat, but I'm only using a switchable 30/15 watts amp on the lower setting. Also, it doesn't get much exercise! As I said, it works very well and is a relatively simple project with more mechanical effort than electrical. It certainly worked out a lot less expensive than buying a commercial soak. I used suitable cables between the attenuator, loudspeaker and amplifier, as in not a guitar lead. e&oe ...
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Post by b4nj0 on Jun 19, 2021 3:21:24 GMT -5
Ah- a kindred soul!
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Post by b4nj0 on Jun 6, 2021 16:31:55 GMT -5
I don't believe Litz wire would be suitable C. We don't concern ourselves with RF "skin effect" in guitar wiring, and in any event it is beyond tedious removing the individual insulation from all the fine constituent wires in order to take advantage of all of them. Maybe Litz wire can have the insulation burned off with the heat from the soldering iron like some enamelled copper wire? My experience with using Litz wire has been less than fruitful. It also ought to make things bulkier than they need to be. Unless you know something that I don't (and I've already learned that's entirely possible with you!)
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Post by b4nj0 on Jun 3, 2021 3:36:02 GMT -5
All looks great but above all is interesting. All your builds hold attention from start to finish. IOW- thumbs-up.
3/4 is a nominal size as in rough sawn, once it is PAR (planed all 'round) it obviously loses a little, but since they want you to pay for the wasted timber you get charged for 3/4 in addition to the planed upcharge. Win-win for someone? I could be off target but I think I'm correct.
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Post by b4nj0 on May 14, 2021 5:34:14 GMT -5
That's a great result C, but how did you resolve the conundrum regarding the tags and inputs on the connector? was it just down to that "ground" connection as in no signal return path?
Beautiful wiring. Such short conductors with (what looks like?) push-back cloth wire is really impressive to me at least. Reminds me generally of the aircraft galley control module wiring at my last place of work. You'll be lacing too before long!
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Post by b4nj0 on May 8, 2021 4:59:55 GMT -5
Although it's superficially similar, it's not a DIP switch right? So irrespective of whether one or both tags is connected to the conductor (wire) input socket, you just need to ring out between that spring contact (wire in) socket and each PCB tag in turn? If neither tag shows continuity to the input socket then file it under G for garbage. Given your many notable achievements and insight that eclipse my efforts Frets, I can't bring myself to believe that you were thinking along the lines of extracting switching functionality from that terminal block as with a DIP switch? I am referring to when you mentioned no voltage output which made me jump to the conclusions that I've expressed above. Forgive me if I've got this all wrong but I struggled to understand a part of your OP and I contented myself to watch how the thread went to try and understand better.
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Post by b4nj0 on May 6, 2021 10:35:05 GMT -5
All those sentiments vapourise once any individuals are dead. I dislike masks (I dislike seat belts too but that's irrational.) However I'll follow the rules to wear them without a second thought. There is no conferred right to infect other folk when a simple mask may reduce the chance of infection by perhaps 90% or even more.
As I understand it, knowingly to infect others with HIV is a crime (and it's probably murder) yet no one calls foul ball if they are expected to take appropriate steps to remove the possibility of such an infection occurring from such a close contact sport.
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Post by b4nj0 on May 6, 2021 4:22:00 GMT -5
The International Declaration of Human Rights is just that- a declaration. So far as I'm aware it has no international legal standing. As a radio "ham", I committed #38 (I think it was #38!) which goes along the lines of "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression. That right extends to include the freedom to seek, impart and retrieve information regardless of ..." and my memory runs out! But how many countries fully and truly acknowledge that right? I'm guessing none. Nada. Zilch. I stand to be corrected though, because it's one of those things that you keep in mind for so long that it could benefit from a current re-appraisal, but the fun goes away if everyone just repeats Google search results.
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Post by b4nj0 on May 5, 2021 4:33:05 GMT -5
Like Scrofula perhaps? A demographic disease of "common" folk, much in the way that gout was affected by those in a position to do so as a means of demonstrating such. In Victirian times the physicians wore the most grotesque leather masks you could visualise, so yes masks were worn. I'm guessing that most if not all of those diseases predated the infinite airborne mobility of hoi poloi? In fact, there is a famous village in Derbyshire, England called Eyam where in a world first, the residents figured out that to avoid spreading Bubonic Plague that had broken out amongst themselves, they had to isolate themselves from other villages. They achieved that without the advice of experts who had yet to be born. They sacrificed themselves and showed the world the way forward in controlling infectious diseases at the same time. Although it's far from being the first to do so, it is mobility that this virus has exploited to such good effect, and there's no better conduit than an aluminium alloy tube hurtling along at 40,000 feet. hekint.org/2020/03/11/the-bubonic-plague-in-eyam/e&oe ...
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Post by b4nj0 on May 1, 2021 19:16:46 GMT -5
Takes breath ...
Disclosure; I'm 100% in favour of vaccination for this, other future pandemics and to eradicate diseases generally. I can conceive of no other area where anyone would place the sensible money- no exceptions. That said, newly developed drugs normally take years of trials prior to release, which I think is in part based on a realisation that we must never again create something like the Thalidomide situation.
Even safe in the confidence that big pharma would always satisfy themselves without financial constraint that a drug is (always only ever on a risk based approach) safe for general distribution, I do have to wonder at the capacity of the various regulating authorities apparently to short circuit the recognised drawn out approvals process during this pandemic. This in turn leads me speculate upon whom or what with the appropriate authority might have convinced them that it is a good move to speed things up, perhaps with some Churchillian collateral damage limitation exercise? I seem to recall that at least one of the companies agreed to shimmy things along provided they were granted immunity from down the line litigation. This rush appeared to take place at all the developing companies right across the Globe in no short order. Was that a first pass the post race, altruistic move, or plain old pragmatic expediency?
The trouble with such an open invitation to explain the perhaps heretical knee-jerk anti-vaxers reasoning, is it might just solicit a response from the families of the aforementioned users of the Distillers drug. Some folks are just inherrent flat-earthers and conspiracy theorists. There's little anyone can do to alter that situation.
Take for example all the yummy mummies opting out of the MMR vaccination; they put their offspring first, but without any recognition of the common good. 'I'm alright Jack and s0d you."
Then we cannot rule out the effect of social media and its influence upon them and other swathes of demographic. All we can do is cross our fingers and play our individual parts to the best of our abilities.
It's my perhaps vexatious contention that anti-vaxers should be denied employment, access to public spaces and so on. It's amazing how an insurance company can force customers into accepting the fraud databases with the tactic that you have to have insurance to drive a vehicle so there's no opt-out. With a similar will of creative commitment and nudge politics, it should be easy to enforce vaccination as at the least a qualification for employment. Ironically, there is a bottom line to which anti-vaxers are not immune- cash. It's not about civil liberties- it's all about the common good.
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Post by b4nj0 on May 1, 2021 11:12:19 GMT -5
"I tell you boy- righteousness and humidity is a deadly cocktail."
(I'm not going to pretend to claim those words as my own, but they were immediately etched into my memory!)
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Post by b4nj0 on May 1, 2021 0:43:49 GMT -5
@tradge; Of course being vaccinated won't prevent you from being a vehicle for the virus, but at least if you do become infected there's a enormously reduced chance of passing directly as a result of such an infection. So mingle with circumspection and stay safe for now?
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Post by b4nj0 on Apr 16, 2021 14:58:10 GMT -5
OK I'm setting myself up here, but I'm trying to visualise a reverb that doesn't include the dry input which initiated it. It would be like playing with a time lag on every plucked note wouldn't it? A bit like micro delayed headphones playback of your own voice making it difficult to sing? Play around with wet and dry mix, but only the multiple echos? Yikes.
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Post by b4nj0 on Apr 15, 2021 14:50:25 GMT -5
I have just replaced the miserable Gibson banjo tuners on my Firebird with "all new improved" Klusons, as much as anything to have them in nickel finish rather than chrome plated which I dislike. They are a slight improvement (and Kluson probably made them for Gibson originally anyway?) but they were about $200 all-in. Ouch. Then again, they can't all be Sperzel quality. I'll keep those in mind for down the line frets.
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Post by b4nj0 on Apr 14, 2021 4:02:38 GMT -5
This is not about suggestions for a pedal tuner because everyone has their go to product(s), rather it's just relayed experiences. Like many folks, I have a number of tuners (lost count!) Every Snark I've ever had (three) was consigned to the dumpster even before the coin cell went pancake- both mechanically and / or electronically. So it goes. Across the decades, I have acquired three Peterson tuners, the Android app, the V-Sam, and the StroboStomp. I have listed those in order of subjective ascending merit. The Android app is close to useless (which is odd since the iPhone version seems to be popular.) The V-Sam has too many bells and whistles that will never get used and is somewhat hesitant in getting a lock. Could be a sensitivity issue? It's display is rather muted and gloomy too. They do a visually similar model without all the add on facilities and being less expensive, I wish I'd bought that one instead. By contrast, the StroboStomp is the shiznitz. A Freddie Freeloader three doors down from me kept borrowing my V-Sam until in the end I began to drag my heels, so he bought a StroboStomp for himself. As soon as I saw and tried it, I had to have one. Very accurate, easy to see from standing position, locks onto a note rapidly and holds on to it. (So they can get it right.) I don't know whether they invented the strobe tuning concept, although they may have been first up in bringing that technology to the musical trade. Peterson are or were a top drawer name in strobe tuning, starting off with the giant spendy rack mount tuners that only professionals could justify. I believe the TC Electronics tuner is good- the one that senses all six strings simultaneously, but I haven't tried it and anyway- even alliwing for instantaneous monitoring of the whole guitar's tuning, I don't think it would have the edge over the StroboStomp when on a stage glaring down at the pedal board? frets- the SlideRIG is immediately addictive, but I fancy that unless there's a Stateside distributor, you'll end up smarting just as much as we Limeys do when buying from across The Pond. C'est la vie n'est ce pas? So much for "free trade" eh? "There's nowt so certain as death or taxes". e&oe ...
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Post by b4nj0 on Apr 13, 2021 2:31:00 GMT -5
Where to start? Well this one is a no-brainer- the Origin Effects "SlideRIG". I have too many pedals by far, I love vibe pedals and I have a few, I even have an original and fabled 1960s Dallas Rangemaster treble booster, but you'd have to point a gun at me to relieve me of my SlideRIG. Y'all think you know compressors right? Well if you love Lowell George, this pedal will split your face straight across to your ear lobes. It is designed to achieve Lowell's *tone* that he achieved by daisy-chaining two 1176 rack mounts. I don't think Origin Effects make this model anymore, but the following YouTube clip demonstrates the newer pedal board friendly version and from what I hear it's just as good as my original version. I know a guy from Daingerfield who imported two of them ... Robbie is a great guy too as it happens. e&oe ...
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Post by b4nj0 on Apr 4, 2021 14:54:57 GMT -5
Which question JT? Seems to me that the Jazz bass topography provides an outline for two volume controlled pickups without a switch quite well to me?
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 30, 2021 8:13:15 GMT -5
Maybe you have a MBB switch instead of BBM?
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 24, 2021 4:07:02 GMT -5
I have no experience with active pickups but I have gleaned over the years that they generally tend to need a much lower value potentiometer, say 25K instead of 250K / 500K etc. Because you said that you're upgrading pickups I wondered whether you had replaced the pot(s) too?
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 21, 2021 4:19:51 GMT -5
ozboomer- thanks, it's not just me then! It's a given to turn off network connections, and OS sounds too. I used to use "98 Lite" to strip out Internet Explorer from XP too. With XP I had no bandwidth problems with my FireWire mixer (10 in and 10 out- it's an M-Audio NRV10) but now with USB 3 and "C" the FireWire speed advantage has slipped away. What USB will probably never have is the uninterrupted established data pipeline that FireWire confers, and that is worth having even now. S'only me but I maintain that XP is still their best effort. In terms of sheer speed, W95 with IE stripped out is like lightning, but I guess it wouldn't run an SSD? The astute will realise that I'm old school and have little relevant to contribute to modern practices? e&oe ...
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 19, 2021 16:48:55 GMT -5
I was laid a bit low with AZ for 24 hours starting at midnight on the day of vaccination. Best beloved had Pfizer and didn't even blink. I guess that's womens folk for ya!
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 15, 2021 9:41:47 GMT -5
Although I'm a long way from being a regular user of a DAW, and therefore hardly one to hold forth with sage advice, I have ProTools 7, Reaper and Audacity, each on its own dedicated fixed disk partition on one Sony lappy, each with dedicated stripped down XP installations . Despite much effort, I failed ever to get my remote control "TranZPort" to play ball with ProTools, so I always go for Reaper at boot time because it was seamless. In fact thinking about it, I only became involved with ProTools at all because my M-Audio firewire mixer had an odd fascination with Avid's ubiquitous costly solution.
Reaper used to allow updates right through two whole major version upgrades at a very user friendly price (and even that was optional but I paid up anyway!) I suspect they still do provide that degree of customer focused friendliness. I'd say go now with Reaper, there was little it couldn't do compared to ProTools when mine were both a little more prescient.
You can still upgrade W7 to W10 free of charge so far as I'm aware, only hardware restrictions get in the way of that path, but for sound reasons that you've already outlined, that's obviously not on your event horizon.
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 14, 2021 18:11:12 GMT -5
I can't see the poll on the Proboards Android joke.
I had the first shot of the Oxford juice a week ago. Best beloved retired from medical work last June so she had to wait until 3-4 weeks ago for her first Pfizer jab. Of course our UK authorities know better than big pharma companies, so we have to wait twelve weeks before we can get another round in.
Ah- the jolly old EUssr playing at blocking tricks again eh? Who would have put money on that horse?
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 5, 2021 14:26:49 GMT -5
That is really neat wiring for a guitar C. Thumbs-up!
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 5, 2021 4:38:03 GMT -5
I can't really see as it's any different from having covers on a hummer, Tele neck pup, filtertron or "Lipstick" etc etc. I suppose there is the capacity to "ground" to consider, but surely that can only affect the very outside layer of the turns because the vast majority of inner turns are Faraday screened by the few surface turns? frets; you could enquire whether the customer has any other guitars with the pickup covers removed. e&oe ...
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