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Post by b4nj0 on Jul 26, 2020 7:02:07 GMT -5
Indeed a massive loss. Just drink in his timing and phrasing. Sometimes the blatantly obvious is obscured by the ubiquitous.
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Post by b4nj0 on Jul 24, 2020 6:16:21 GMT -5
Does that mean mounting screws or the slug screws? Provided the mounting screws show no continuity with the pickup's windings I can't see a problem, indeed if the pickguard is screened then it's almost a given, but if the slug screws make contact then there may well be an issue.
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Post by b4nj0 on Jul 21, 2020 12:16:14 GMT -5
Bareknuckle pickups are really good on construction, attention to detail and subjectively- sound, but you know so are a great many others. I have one at the bridge in my Yamaha Pacifica 904 (I guess that makes it a 912 now?) Better not to ask why because it's a touch embarrassing! I think my example is a "Crawler" so I imagine it's a posthumous Kossof Signature? There is no marking on it to indicate provenance and BK were not forthcoming in that arena beyond confirming that once it's left the factiry, only the cardboard box hints to the model designation. Tim will work with you and if you (eg) do or don't want wax potting, he'll provide (unless his business model has changed over the years.) That could be so because I once made a mildly desperate plea to him for ond of his Tele base plates and was shown the door!
Antigua's research tends to indicate that you really don't need to hemorrhage beer tokens on pickups. However, cash sunk into rice bowl economies is lost forever, and paying someone like Tim could conceivably see him (or one of his army of winders) rocking up at one of your gigs. That cannot be said about Mao's clan. That said- I'd still vote with my wallet because most of the time I find the differences between this and that for comparable architectures more measurable than discernable. Sorry Antigua!
Would a hand winder go out of his or her way to avoid scatter winding? That reveals my ignorance I guess, but the concentration required to layer wind thousands of turns of approximately 42 gauge wire would send me dopey in about two minutes. I would kind of expect to encounter at least some measure of scatter winding in any hand wound pickup.
How do you find the Bareknuckle OCC? Was there a model indication engraving or sticker applied to your single coil?
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Post by b4nj0 on Jul 10, 2020 16:02:20 GMT -5
Heavy picks rule for me. I can't abide floppy bits of plastic. I once bought one of the American quarters fashioned into a Jazz III sort of style. That is (was) kind of OK but ...
I have a large antique Whitbread earthernware ashtray serving far better use as a Dunlop Jazz III repository. A friend on another forum gave me a heads-up on bone picks, I eventually tried one that SWMBO bought for me and as they say- once bitten, forever smitten. I have some several now! I still leave Jazz IIIs tucked under the strings on all my guit fiddles, but bone picks are my choice these days. I'm probably in a bit of a minority there.
Edit: I should say that strictly speaking I just use fingers. It's good enough the the two Jeffs!
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Post by b4nj0 on Jul 10, 2020 15:52:25 GMT -5
The value of both capacitors will depend on the pick ups you are going to use, you could start 250K and then try 500K or you could reverse that sequence. That's why Mike didn't specify values.
Regarding an alternative circuit, I have not seen such a layout with Mike Richardson's design. Perhaps you are thinking of the MK2 version which facilitated standard Strat wiring but with compromised DPDT options? I would strongly suggest tracing the diagram in all switch positions several times over until you are comfortable that you have a grasp of it, and then see whether such an alternative even seems concievable. This will have the side benefit of standing you in good stead when you encounter the inevitable "gotchas".
There are some "interesting" interactions between the tone pots in some of the switch configurations. I have two Strats wired this way, although I didn't bother with the phase switch.
Good luck. In my view it's worth the effort.
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Post by b4nj0 on Jul 4, 2020 6:05:57 GMT -5
Tree climbing rats with bushey tails. Especially the accursed Grey Squirrels (that have almost entirely driven out our smaller indigenous Red Squirrels.) They chow down on our Xmas lights too (which as it happens we also leave out year round!) I keep rebuilding them but it's a war of attrition matched only by moles. No love for squirrels here, I certainly wouldn't feed the little varmints, but SWMBO feeds sackloads of seed and mealworms that the pigeons and starlings eat in the hope that the ground feeding blackbirds just might get a beak in. I reckon the squirrels get a lot of that too. We have a clutch of bambino Blackbirds right now so I guess it's all worth it.
Happy Fourth of July Folks!
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Post by b4nj0 on Apr 24, 2020 17:10:51 GMT -5
I've found that the ones that didn't present such a problem inevitably had the screws perilously close to breaking out of the wood. Since it's basically a Faraday Cage, I reckon it can tolerate the odd gap here and there provided the "ground" is efficacious?
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Post by b4nj0 on Apr 24, 2020 16:58:05 GMT -5
"The Man With The Woman Head" Are you with me on this people? The man with the woman head Polynesian wallpaper made the face stand out, a mixture of Oriental and early vaudeville jazz poofter, forming a hard, beetle-like triangular chin much like a praying mantis. Smoky razor-cut, low on the ear-neck profile. The face the color of a nicotine-stained hand. Dark circles collected under the wrinkled, folded eyes, map-like from too much turquoise eyepaint. He showed his old tongue through ill-fitting wooden teeth, stained from too much opium, chipped from the years. The feet, brown wrinkles above straw loafers. A piece of coconut in a pink seashell caught the tongue and knotted into thin white strings. Charcoal grey Eisenhower jacket zipped into a lotus green ascot. A coil of ashes collected on the white-on-yellow dacs. Four slender bones with rings and nails endured the weight of a hard fast black rubber cigarette holder. I could just make out "Ace" as he carried the tray and mouthed, "You cheap son of a b h" as a straw fell out of a Coke, cartwheeled into the gutter. So this was a drive-in restaurant in Hollywood, So this was a drive-in restaurant in Hollywood, So this was a drive-in restaurant in Hollywood. Van Vliet. "Pumpkins span the hills With orange Crayola patches"- indeed! e&oe ...
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Post by b4nj0 on Apr 22, 2020 1:40:28 GMT -5
All you need to do is relieve the wood a bit in the right spot with a rotary burr (or whatever is your weapon of choice), or even easier just omit a bit of screening around the actual tip contact spot. That said, I've not had any problem in nearly fifty years.
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Post by b4nj0 on Apr 17, 2020 17:54:08 GMT -5
Cole Porter, "Every Time We Say Goodbye"
"How strange the change from major to minor"
Lyric follows mood exactly in time. I think Lugubrious Len pulled off a similar trick in "Hallelujah"? "The minor fall and the major lift"?
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Post by b4nj0 on Apr 16, 2020 2:11:13 GMT -5
I used them plenty when I was in aerospace work, but that was more to do with it being verboten to solder stranded cables at any cost. The one exception was BNC plugs for IFE equipment. Really you should consider crimping ring terminals if you're going down that route and it all starts to get a bit silly especially with the slight reduction in wiring route flexibility with all that other paraphernalia going on. I'd stick with soldering terminals inside guitars for the time and effort it takes. Don't even start me on wire wrapping!
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 30, 2020 3:38:14 GMT -5
And there are countries that write backwards. That for me is the only real problem with the ascendency of the Chinese influence (not to mention the associated crippled keyboards). Ever see a southpaw trying not to drag his or her hand over wet ink? It's daft. Their choice of course but painful to watch. Of course there are better ways to accomplish anything, and if a southpaw gets together with a right-handed guitar lifestyle, he or she exponentially widens the choice of instruments and may well save a little too. Better? not necessarily for the individual, but bringing together both views, if a left-hander can be tipped over into travelling the other path from the get-go, it's proof of the "it doesn't matter- it's all down to dexterity" concept and dexterity is subsequently improved in the dormant "unnatural" hand at the same time. Lots more guitars to choose from. Win win. So no, I don't agree that imposes upon the neophyte by an elmer. The noob always retains the right of self determination. If'n you go to someone for advice and choose to ignore it, fill yer boots but don't expect that person to waste time on offering advice again down the line.
Ever watch Steve Vai with the Heart Guitar?
And like the piano, when did you last see a left handed fiddle player in an orchestra. PPE doesn't look too good in such an ensemble.
If I could change anything about the Strat, it would be the Tele ;<D
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 29, 2020 16:53:25 GMT -5
Danny Gatton was a southpaw who decided that it made sense to use the strongest hand for fretting, so he decided to play right handed. I love Danny Gatton me.
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 29, 2020 3:45:48 GMT -5
As I said, Warmoth compound radius neck (on a Schecter Koa body) and using Sperzel staggered capstans, high "E" was going punk punk punk instead of twang twang twang. Had a pro setup involving a full fret reprofile by a "name" UK "luthier" and a new bone nut was part of the deal. The guitar played beautifully and just "together" but that high "E" just carried on plunking. I was keen to avoid screwing anything into the sweet virgin maple, but I gave in and put a round string tree on. Job done.
There simply isn't enough angle on a Leo. It may work OK with a reversed headstock a-la-Jimi or a Firebird, but I know well enough about balancing the string angle over the biscuit saddle on a resonator to straddle the gap between choking the cone and failing to drive it sufficiently. Leo's design (which he seems to have spotted elsewhere beforehand- Paul Bigsby- who in turn robbed it from Europe?) has the great attribute of a straight string pull, something that seems to have escaped many manufacturers even after all these decades. The trouble was that he value engineered it to get a toe hold in market share. He could have done better but perhaps he didn't foresee any issue when so many other decisions were under the prototype magnifier? I have a commisioned hand made Strat neck (Roger Giffin if anyone's heard of him- he made a bit of a name for himself running Gibson's Custom Shop back in the day) and the headstock is scooped down noticeably lower than a standard Leo. It worked fine without string trees but I put one on anyway because it sports a decal. Feelz if you like. Gots to look "right".
I liked that idea regarding easier access to the wiring John. It's so much easier on a Tele.
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 28, 2020 19:20:44 GMT -5
A cheap self contained amplifying box designed to plug a record deck into. Rubbish. Landfill.
Dad's Welson twin manual organ. OK if I run the SupaTonebender fuzz, Crybabh wah and an old WEM valve driven CopyCat through it (and used headphones). The ToneBender went in the trash after I got an amp with a distortion channel. So did my EH Screaming Bird treble booster. Both seemed like junk back then. Who knew? Don't throw anything nowadays. Need therapy with that!
WEM Dominator Bass Mk1 valved combo, 15". Just fantastic. Part exchanged for a no name 50 watt solid state head and no name 2x12 cab. At last a stack amp! WRONNGGG! Rubbish. Part exchanged for a 1960s AC30. Joy!
By pure coincidence, I ended up buying back the very same WEM Dominator. Part chopped it again almost immediately. You can still see the circular scar on my forehead.
Peavey Backstage 30. Devoid of any soul. Antisceptic sounding. Really well built though. Part exchanged along with my prized ancient WEM CopyCat for a Yamaha G100-112. Very decent solid state amp. One of the first (maybe the first?) MOSFET guitar amps. Designed by Soldano I think? Still own it. Keepers are.
Part exchanged the Vox for a Session 15-30 valve amp aound 1980 which I still own. The 15-30 is a very rare amp and was in on the booteek market 20 years too soon. Did I really off the Vox though? Jeez. Now you can really see the scar where I had it removed.
One of those aforementioned Peavey Blazer thingies. Tried to recreate the lost Backstage 30. Simply awful. You must have had a different model I guess. Became convinced that Peavey had gone soft in the head. Sold as soon as possible to a friend. Felt guilty for a couple of minutes.
Three (yes 3!) Yamaha AA5 portables. They are Yamaha's turds and I can offer no reason why I bought three of them. Still own them. No one in their right mind would buy them off me! Once upon a time they'd be landfill too, but I never throw anything now.
Tech21 Trademark 10. Lovely little solid state amp. Still own it.
Another Session. A Rockette 20 watt. Sounds great but a bit limited. Currently a project to be reclothed in VOX livery. I'll.get around to it one day, I have all the cloth, tolex and parts. Should be fun. Other makers have caught up with Session but they blazed a trail with how to make the fastest fuses on three legs give valves a serious run for their money.
Tubes/toobs/valves. Vacuum tubes- so I guess you guys have it. Diode, triode, pentode- they're all valves to me, and since unlike amps and pedals there are no semi conductors in passive guitars, there's no "electronics" in electric guitars- just electrical circuits. Electronic guitar anyone?
Session Sessionette 75watts. Awesome solid state amp. Legendary. Still own it.
(Check out Session's current "Blues Baby" offering. They designed the amp's chassis to fit into a Blues Junior cabinet if you want. Why? Go figure.)
Far eastern Hiwatt 20 watts solid state combo bass amp. Bought for my Gretsch Committee bass. It's a box. It makes noise. Well it did the last time I used it, anyone's guess now. Still own it.
Bought another Yamaha G100-112, so stereo now!
I would love to get my WEM and VOX back but there you go.
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 28, 2020 18:20:10 GMT -5
String trees (sic) didn't ought to be that much of a problem unless there's a second one restraining wound strings? Except for my 1973, all of mine are string Frisbees, but I'll go along with the notion that they were a kludge and by now have outstayed their welcome. There has to be a better way, like a set back peghead.
Personally I have a bigger issue with Floyd Rose gouged routs and even scaffolding like a Bigsby, but that's been done to death by better men than me (and on here too). I concur with the bridge pup angle being just fine as it is, and also with two point vibratos being an improvement, but I'm not going to get all fussed with Leo over that. The guy was a visionary.
Leaving the Pacifica aside, my other two Warmoth necks have side truss rod adjusters in the treble side cutaway. I suspect that these deploy a crown wheel and pinion, but however they're configured, it is definitely an improvement.
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 28, 2020 5:07:29 GMT -5
I have five guitars with Sperzel staggered height machine head capstans. One is an LP Junior type double cut so not relevant, three of them have string trees because they are "supposed" to have them for "the look", but one is a Warmoth neck and I can confirm that the staggered heights do not cut the mustard and I reluctantly admitted defeat and attached a string tree. Nice try but no cigar. That was after I'd had it professionally set up too. (That was more to do with the quarter sawn neck refusing to respond to truss rod tweaks.)
Sperzels are a great example of American ingenuity and application in my view.
The reason Gibsons don't tend to survive a mild knock is the scarf joint, although that unwelcome volute is an attempt to ameliorate that. The Yamaha Pacifica 904 headstock is as I stated set back, but it is not scarfed. This must cost more to manufacture (Yamaha farmed out the neck to Warmoth on that and a few other high end models) but it avoids the weakness of a joint. I wouldn't criticise Gibson given the six string artistry that they used to peddle, but I suspect that it's not really advantageous to make a neck to headstock joint when set against the increased machining and timber wastage with one piece construction. With modern three axis routing it starts to become a bit silly. Except to obsessed Gibson aficionados of course who wouldn't ever tolerate any change. I have a superb acoustic that has a one piece Wenge neck, headstock and heel, so it's all down to the shekels at the end of the day.
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 27, 2020 8:35:23 GMT -5
Sounds like you aren't really a Strat man then? although I accept that you had your tongue planted firmly in your cheek ...
I cannot see any difference between the set screws on a Strat and those on a Tele? Whether more recent solid saddles or bent steel or barrels, they are all adjusted by set screws.
In my limited experience (I have screwed together five now, and mucked around with a fair few others) a neck that moves too easily has not been assembled correctly.
As for the jack socket escutcheon, fit, form and function applies generally, but the only functional problem is shorting of the TS plug tip against any cavity's Faraday screen. I think (subjectively) that Leo's effort looks better than a plain socket and certainly adds to what must have appeared to be a space-age design back in the day? I'm comparing the Strat design to the one on my Pacifica 904 here. Even an angled plug (like a more or less industry standard Neutrik) facilitates tucking the lead in between the strap and the body. It's no small claim that the Yamaha trounces the Fender on just about every other level, but I'd sooner it had a Strat type output arrangement.
So to return to your query, at the end of the day, I'd change the vibrato spring cover to make it flush (and I did that on one of my Strats although I had to have the vibrato spring block machined down by 2 or 3 mm to compensate.) Something like this could be done with the neck attachment screw bearing plate too, and again my Pacifica addresses that.
I'd also "french-in" the neck pocket area of the back of the body to the back of the neck, and some makers (including Fender) already do that on some models.
Finally, I'd set the headstock back a-la Gibson (my Pacifica 904 does that as well.) So sensible, but of course more costly to manufacture. You never see the abominations that are string trees on a Gibson ...
I love it when someone puts on the devil's advocate hat. ;<D
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 16, 2020 4:27:39 GMT -5
I tender thanks for this too. My meagre attempts to upload original Guitarnuts pages makes me understand the enormity of the task carried out with so much altruism. Respect Guys, Hippy.
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 9, 2020 3:53:10 GMT -5
I used some really heavy stuff that I "borrowed" from work donkey's years ago. Recently I've purchased some different gauges and I would advise to do the same, selecting what works best for any given application. There's no one size fits all. Also, in addition to rosin cored solder, an investment in a fluxpen works wonders. (I bought a little bottle instead with a tiny captive brush). I've only just found that out too.
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Post by b4nj0 on Mar 3, 2020 16:02:41 GMT -5
Felicitations Tradge.
SWMBO'd and your scribe have been treading a common path for forty years this year, but marriage is still far beyond our horizon. I (we) wish you both good luck and all the very best for whatever the future holds in store for you.
Hippy.
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Post by b4nj0 on Feb 13, 2020 9:51:48 GMT -5
I anticipated that SG which is why I deployed the caveat that I don't play bass. I have a Gretsch Committee bass Mk 1 hanging on the wall here. I've always harboured a sneaking desire for a fretless Jazz bass too, but Fred's creation sure is pretty to look at ... I know it's unwise to generalise, but bass players are much more open to change than significant numbers of guitar players, and that extends to include profiles as well as an attitude to on board electrickery. There's nothing wrong with that- each to his own etc.
I can see why active electronics in order to make the bass have more impact in a band environment is appealing and rightly so, but I haven't noticed guitar players really <needing> to follow suit. Using active solutions helps to expand the envelope and provide new options which is healthy, but (and I'm far from representative) I just don't feel that need. That said, I'm reasonably sure I'm not in a minority. Not "right" especially, just "nothing to pique my interest here- move along now". We're a broad church- especially we Nutz, and that's how it is.
The first guitar I screwed together was an Esquire inspired by images in Ken Achard's green book about the Fender guitar. I had someone wire it back in those days and took the option of having a treble booster they were promoting installed (in an Esquire???) I very soon had that removed free of charge by letting them have the booster back. This kind of prejudiced me against such additions to vanilla guitar circuitry. Now I think about it, I am struggling to bring to mind any examples of active circuitry in the instruments of those pioneers that so influenced me, I'm sure there must be some but I cannot remember any.
As far as lithium cells go- I'll just think about what the French ATC christened "The Boeing Barbecue" for a moment. The FAA have strict limits in the size of Lithium.power sources that are allowed on airplanes, and they are far from alone in jurisdictions in that thinking. 18650 LiFePo4 cells (such as those in the Tesla) are much less risky, especially if using "protected" examples, but I keep all my lithium derived packs and cells (of whatever chemistry) at storage charge in "fireproof" bags inside an ex-issue ammunition box. It's just a healthy respect for the power density of these batteries and an understanding that once they go- they don't need oxygen to sustain the burn. Excepting "smart" 'phones and laptops and the like which always come with suitable balancing and / or safety provisions, I don't leave any charging (or discharging) lithium unattended.
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Post by b4nj0 on Feb 12, 2020 18:07:31 GMT -5
Ah! the LeClanche cell. We'll be back on "jars' soon!
What about a <protected> 18650 cell? (preferably in a dedicated holder?) Such a contraption ought to fit into a bathtub rout Leo-type? Maybe a charge facility could then be arranged by changing the guitar jack socket to a TRS? Mmm- I'd have to think about that one... perhaps not- more (failsafe) switching required?
The 18650 is very familiar to vapers but is ubiquitous in laptop battery packs and no doubt elsewhere too. A Tesla has about 7,000 of the blighters. Massive bill when they need replacing due to fast charging ... Because in this case it's a single cell you don't need to ensure cell balance. Absolutely avoid cheap chargers and cheap cells (even protected ones). That's a mugs game. Those cell 'phone flat packs? They have an alarming tendency to swell and that is indeed a clarion call to senses.
I wouldn't put batteries or cells in guitars at all, for me it's an oxymoron, but then again I'm not a bass player!
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Post by b4nj0 on Feb 8, 2020 8:59:43 GMT -5
I'm using a more recent AKG wireless. At first I couldn't get along with the latency, but I no longer notice it so I figure my brain soon compensated for it. I only paid around $100 for it via Amazon. There was a choice of about four channels so I picked the channel that was advertised by the least number of merchants! The last thing you want is to rock up and find someone else on your channel ... It has a hook up coaxial lead going to the belt worn / strap mounted transmitter and it was hellishly noisy whenever it abraded on clothes or anything for that matter, so I made another using Klotz and Neutrik. Job done. I did buy a replacement cable from Amazon but the fools had wired it incorrectly and it so annoyed me that rather than fix it I sent it back.
Wearing a devil's advocate hat I would like to observe that the tiny antennas these devices invariably have are stupid engineering decisions waiting to get snapped off. Mine is working in the 70cms UHF Ham band (grr!) so a fractal or even a plate antenna for that wavelength can be made small enough to fit inside the device. It only needs to cover a radius of 50 feet or so. When did anyone last buy a cell 'phone with an antenna poking up? When did anyone last see a car remote with an antenna? Car remotes work at the same ham frequencies. I suspect that wireless radio microphones for guitars only have antennas because folks expect to see one to be convinced it will work.
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Post by b4nj0 on Feb 8, 2020 8:30:22 GMT -5
I have a high output Tele neck pup concealed beneath the pickguard of a home assembled Esquire. I think I got it from Guitar Fetish. It has a four way switch and delivers the series combo and is great for that, but in the neck position alone it lacks top end. I have never established whether that's a function of the overwound natureof the pup itself, or the relatively low position of it beneath the pickguard. It does make folks curious when they hear what's coming out of the 1955 Fender bridge pup! I would be interested to learn of your experience(s) with the hidden pup.
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Post by b4nj0 on Feb 7, 2020 4:17:35 GMT -5
I have original production run Bardens in a Gatton signature I screwed together. They are awesome pups. Antigua has glossed over them once in a post, but I wish he'd give them a good work out. Kinda selfish I know but ...
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Post by b4nj0 on Feb 6, 2020 3:20:18 GMT -5
You questioned what your eyes and ears were telling you and that is commendable. (Would that more folks questioned what they encounter without any thought.) I had a similar gotcha with a guitar jack socket, the manufacturer had used a switching amp input socket and the tag I needed was concealed beneath wood so I wired to the switching tag by mistake not suspecting there would be a third. This meant it rang out properly on the bench, but had no sound when plugged in. You don't want to know how long I wrangled over that and it was because I was forced to use a Weller 100 watts soldering gun to solder the base back onto a P90, so I immediately figured that I had demagnetised the pup. How wrong can you be? Excellent result for you frets and I'm looking forward to more about kitchen table capacitors. I have to say I'm a Doubting Thomas regarding capacitor types because capacitance is a physical property. Those Orange Drops (sic) just happen to look cool!
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Post by b4nj0 on Feb 4, 2020 8:34:04 GMT -5
Blademaster is right on the scent here, the uF is a pretty large value, and unlikely to be duplicated with kitchen table technology in any sensible size. This is why I asked about the nature of construction because I couldn't tell from the images of those wax potted components. Sometimes meter readings need to be interpreted rather than taken as gospel, and I would focus on that first. Look at guitar cable as an example, we compare values of 30-100 pF per metre quoted on various manufacturer's offerings and talk up one brand over another, yet your home made ones are managing perhaps one million (edit: thousand!) times as much capacitance? Ignoring voltage requirements, capacitance is dependent upon area, inter "plate" gap and dielectric constant, you would indeed need thinner than kitchen parchment dielectric to even think about it. I cannot explain why or even how your previous succesful ventures worked using other than copper wire though. Threads like these are the life blood of a healthy forum, so thanks are due.
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Post by b4nj0 on Feb 4, 2020 8:07:14 GMT -5
I used to have a great "Whirlwind" coiled cable that had eponymous plugs and was super mega heavy duty. I thought it would last a lifetime (the advertising certainly persuaded me that was the case), but the rubber derived jacket had other ideas. I still have the plugs though. They are solid brass, were sold as "mil spec." (yeah- right!) and I made short patch leads for a home made attenuator with them.
I can't say that I ever noticed any remarkable treble sacrifice with it originally, but I don't think I'd even consider a coiled cable these days. I note that Dan Aurbach uses them ... I like The Black Keys so if'n he brings out a signature model then who knows ;<D
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Post by b4nj0 on Feb 3, 2020 7:27:21 GMT -5
Well how's about 3.142 times the distributed capacitance for a start? $0.02 ;<D
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