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Crackbaby · Post by **Crackbaby** » Sun Nov 25, 2012 2:54 pm

i want my next guitar to be a "tonal chameleon"..

But it must also quack and sing!

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Sun Nov 25, 2012 3:14 pm

Crackbaby wrote:i want my next guitar to be a "tonal chameleon".. But it must also quack and sing!

You need an operatically trained rubber duck with strings!!!

Multimeter will arrive Tuesday, soldering iron will arrive Wednesday. Paycheck won't arrive until Friday, so it's going to be about 10 days before I have the tools and a replacement switch. And, of course, new strings! And the whammy bar! And, and, and... argh.

Definitely going to swap the single-coil center pickup for a humbucker.

Crackbaby · Post by **Crackbaby** » Sun Nov 25, 2012 4:04 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7W2tE36IE0 a humbucker in the middle sounding very very good imho

clean just after 2:00

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Sun Nov 25, 2012 5:15 pm

Crackbaby wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7W2tE36IE0 a humbucker in the middle sounding very very good imho

clean just after 2:00

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiccccccceeeeeeeeeeee..

Killer sound out of that - definitely some quack but bite in there as well!

Now I want to go jam out but my burned fingie still hurts!

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Sun Nov 25, 2012 7:06 pm

Crackbaby wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7W2tE36IE0 a humbucker in the middle sounding very very good imho

clean just after 2:00

Looks just like Carl Weathers' get up in Rocky II & III. Sweet!

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:38 am

Crackbaby wrote:i want my next guitar to be a "tonal chameleon".. But it must also quack and sing!

I need 5 tones:

1. EVH bridge
2. Dimarzio Air Zone bridge
3. SRV neck + middle
4. Hendrix neck
5. John Fogerty neck humbucker + bridge humbucker

The closest I can get is with a Dimarzio Norton in the bridge, hum canceling single coils in the neck and middle, and a neck/bridge blend pot. Blending a little of the neck in can give the Norton some of the thickness of the Air Zone, and blending all the way up gives me an approximation of the Fogerty thing.

Now I just wish someone could give me that in the shape of a PRS.

Ian B · Post by **Ian B** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:28 am

hibidy wrote:I think thought that you've had pretty good luck with your tech though, so hopefully......

The good luck has nearly run out.

My tech is the main guitar man for a large chain of music stores in the North of England, or was, it seems after speaking to him they've changed the way they operate with guitars and no longer need his services. He didn't have enough *private* work to strike out on his own so has taken another job, but this has severely curtailed the amount of time he has to spend on the guitars he had booked in.

While he's not taking on new customers, those who have supported him over the years he'll try and fit in (inc myself) but this obviously means a delay, maybe January for me. I'm in no rush to have the new pups fitted on one guitar, it'd lay there untouched for a year, and the silent acoustic is by no means unplayable, it just needs tweaking to get the best out of it, so I'm happy to wait.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:34 am

Ian B wrote:
hibidy wrote:I think thought that you've had pretty good luck with your tech though, so hopefully......
The good luck has nearly run out.

My tech is the main guitar man for a large chain of music stores in the North of England, or was, it seems after speaking to him they've changed the way they operate with guitars and no longer need his services. He didn't have enough *private* work to strike out on his own so has taken another job, but this has severely curtailed the amount of time he has to spend on the guitars he had booked in.

While he's not taking on new customers, those who have supported him over the years he'll try and fit in (inc myself) but this obviously means a delay, maybe January for me. I'm in no rush to have the new pups fitted on one guitar, it'd lay there untouched for a year, and the silent acoustic is by no means unplayable, it just needs tweaking to get the best out of it, so I'm happy to wait.

Damn. That sucks on so many levels

Personally, even though I live in a very large metropolitan area (not LA large, but big enough)....techs are ROTTEN here!

I've really gotten into a more DIY mode. No, I'm saying you should go that route because there are prolly other options for you, but just saying......

Ian B · Post by **Ian B** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 8:17 am

hibidy wrote:
Ian B wrote:
hibidy wrote:I think thought that you've had pretty good luck with your tech though, so hopefully......
The good luck has nearly run out.

My tech is the main guitar man for a large chain of music stores in the North of England, or was, it seems after speaking to him they've changed the way they operate with guitars and no longer need his services. He didn't have enough *private* work to strike out on his own so has taken another job, but this has severely curtailed the amount of time he has to spend on the guitars he had booked in.

While he's not taking on new customers, those who have supported him over the years he'll try and fit in (inc myself) but this obviously means a delay, maybe January for me. I'm in no rush to have the new pups fitted on one guitar, it'd lay there untouched for a year, and the silent acoustic is by no means unplayable, it just needs tweaking to get the best out of it, so I'm happy to wait.
Damn. That sucks on so many levels

Personally, even though I live in a very large metropolitan area (not LA large, but big enough)....techs are ROTTEN here!

I've really gotten into a more DIY mode. No, I'm saying you should go that route because there are prolly other options for you, but just saying......

With the pups, if it was just a case of one-out-one-in I could probably do it, but I want these buckers tapped and that, especially starting from square one with all the wiring, is beyond me I'm afraid, especially with my monkey-with-a-soldering-iron *technique*

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 12:40 pm

Ian B wrote:
hibidy wrote:I think thought that you've had pretty good luck with your tech though, so hopefully......
The good luck has nearly run out.

My tech is the main guitar man for a large chain of music stores in the North of England, or was, it seems after speaking to him they've changed the way they operate with guitars and no longer need his services. He didn't have enough *private* work to strike out on his own so has taken another job, but this has severely curtailed the amount of time he has to spend on the guitars he had booked in.

While he's not taking on new customers, those who have supported him over the years he'll try and fit in (inc myself) but this obviously means a delay, maybe January for me. I'm in no rush to have the new pups fitted on one guitar, it'd lay there untouched for a year, and the silent acoustic is by no means unplayable, it just needs tweaking to get the best out of it, so I'm happy to wait.

Sorry to hear that Ian man, It has happened already to quite a few decent blokes I know that are proper quality. Its turning everything into shit.
Welcome to...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1QFY-jSt60
It isn't about the wait is it, Its the people being sold short and severed that have put in decades of top draw service. Sick of the way things are always only getting worse

Peace and rantish mode off

Dean

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 2:00 pm

Ian B wrote:With the pups, if it was just a case of one-out-one-in I could probably do it, but I want these buckers tapped and that, especially starting from square one with all the wiring, is beyond me I'm afraid, especially with my monkey-with-a-soldering-iron *technique*

In Europe, you're able to get some versions of the Megaswitch that we can't get in the US. They make a lot of complex pickup combinations easy to accomplish. Personally, I'd love to get the E+ version:

http://www.eyb-guitars.de/Eyb-English/M ... h%20E+.pdf

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 2:08 pm

Uncle E wrote:
Ian B wrote:With the pups, if it was just a case of one-out-one-in I could probably do it, but I want these buckers tapped and that, especially starting from square one with all the wiring, is beyond me I'm afraid, especially with my monkey-with-a-soldering-iron *technique*
In Europe, you're able to get some versions of the Megaswitch that we can't get in the US. They make a lot of complex pickup combinations easy to accomplish. Personally, I'd love to get the E+ version:

http://www.eyb-guitars.de/Eyb-English/M ... h%20E+.pdf

I could/would send you some over mate. Let me know! What friends are for, No?

Dean

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 2:18 pm

Dean Aka Nekro wrote:I could/would send you some over mate. Let me know! What friends are for, No?

Thank you! I may be asking you for that favor very, very soon.

Ian B · Post by **Ian B** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 5:59 pm

Dean Aka Nekro wrote:
Ian B wrote:
hibidy wrote:I think thought that you've had pretty good luck with your tech though, so hopefully......
The good luck has nearly run out.

My tech is the main guitar man for a large chain of music stores in the North of England, or was, it seems after speaking to him they've changed the way they operate with guitars and no longer need his services. He didn't have enough *private* work to strike out on his own so has taken another job, but this has severely curtailed the amount of time he has to spend on the guitars he had booked in.

While he's not taking on new customers, those who have supported him over the years he'll try and fit in (inc myself) but this obviously means a delay, maybe January for me. I'm in no rush to have the new pups fitted on one guitar, it'd lay there untouched for a year, and the silent acoustic is by no means unplayable, it just needs tweaking to get the best out of it, so I'm happy to wait.
Sorry to hear that Ian man, It has happened already to quite a few decent blokes I know that are proper quality. Its turning everything into shit.
Welcome to...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1QFY-jSt60
It isn't about the wait is it, Its the people being sold short and severed that have put in decades of top draw service. Sick of the way things are always only getting worse

Peace and rantish mode off

Dean

He's good Dean, and to be fair he did take some work off the chain of stores who employed him by doing it *privately*, but I'm still amazed they've opted to go without a in house guitar tech. Guitars, amps, etc, will still count for a huge part of their sales and I can't believe they're intending to sell instruments with nothing but a out-of-the-box-factory-setup.

Ian B · Post by **Ian B** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 6:01 pm

Uncle E wrote:
Ian B wrote:With the pups, if it was just a case of one-out-one-in I could probably do it, but I want these buckers tapped and that, especially starting from square one with all the wiring, is beyond me I'm afraid, especially with my monkey-with-a-soldering-iron *technique*
In Europe, you're able to get some versions of the Megaswitch that we can't get in the US. They make a lot of complex pickup combinations easy to accomplish. Personally, I'd love to get the E+ version:

http://www.eyb-guitars.de/Eyb-English/M ... h%20E+.pdf

If it involves soldering, however simple, it'd still be a major, and likely insurmountable, challenge for me

Your next guitar?