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Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:32 am

susiwong wrote:Agreed, this wiring stuff would be better put in the DIY section, but it just developed here somehow ...
At least it's guitar related.

Btw, I went overboard with these wirings in the past, but nowadays I find I rather keep my guitars stock except for the odd Megaswitch in F-styles.
No matter what you do, electronics will only take you so far, the bigger part of a guitar's tone is determined by it's physical construction.

Ymmv,
susiwong

I agree and disagree...series/split/parallel takes nothing from the tone but adds so much more, added to a guitar constructed for optimum tone only gives that guitar far more tonal range. Myself I would take that over a stock passive tone control any day of course YMMV which is even more important in this case because all this is so subjective.

One day I might get around to making a video like I want, but imho the most important thing for tone is how you play, where you pick, how you pick and tuning (different tunings make a huge tonal difference as well). In any given 4 bar section depending on the tone my picking hand will travel anywhere from close to the bridge to about the 14th fret.

Two things I do a lot is pinch of course and another is a light handed palm mute that catches natural harminics instead of a mute. One daily exercise I have is to bar a chord and hold that one chord while I move about the strings laterally with my picking hand both getting different harmonic squeals and then doing it with palm mutes avoiding any open notes and having nothing but harmonics in different pitches. Neither is a practical thing to do too much at a time in a song (I still do though

) but learning the 'waypoints' makes for dynamic playing² imo.

I am working on this piece that is a Frenzel demo with a lot of this stuff, but when I will put it all together is anyone's guess.

BTW soon I'm going to try painting my ts clone pedal and if all goes well I will use water slide decals (covered with several coats of clear coat before applying so the ink wont run) and if all goes well I will name the pedal 'Hink's Squealin Screamah'. Also if all goes well between now and the winter I will try to build 3 or 4 and put them in the marketplace. The cost of the kit is 68 dollars so I'm thinking about 125 dollars (or less depending on who it is

). However if I am able to do this I will allow the purchaser to name their own pedal and I will personalize it

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:55 am

Hink wrote:BTW soon I'm going to try painting my ts clone pedal and if all goes well I will use water slide decals

http://www.mcgpaper.com/modeldecals.html

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:01 am

Uncle E wrote:
Hink wrote:BTW soon I'm going to try painting my ts clone pedal and if all goes well I will use water slide decals
http://www.mcgpaper.com/modeldecals.html

Thanks Eric bookmarked, I think my bigger problem will be painting the enclosure without drip, drops or dribbles

susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:04 am

Hink wrote:I agree and disagree...series/split/parallel takes nothing from the tone but adds so much more, added to a guitar constructed for optimum tone only gives that guitar far more tonal range. Myself I would take that over a stock passive tone control any day of course YMMV which is even more important in this case because all this is so subjective.

One day I might get around to making a video like I want, but imho the most important thing for tone is how you play, where you pick, how you pick and tuning (different tunings make a huge tonal difference as well). In any given 4 bar section depending on the tone my picking hand will travel anywhere from close to the bridge to about the 14th fret.

Completely true about the player's influence, but the electronics are not related to that imho, they don't take anything away from that palette.

Unless you use this type of switch ...

My reason for going back to stock wirings is mostly based on convenience (for live use I need fool proof

) and rather changing guitars for recording instead of pulling it all out of one monster, but people are different, and my approach used to be different, too.
It's a cool alternative, no doubt.

Ymmv,
susiwong

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:21 am

Guitar Hero porn:

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:36 am

Where's the "dj hero" ones......wait.....nevermind......

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:42 am

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:50 am

Oh, is that katy perry's?

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 5:28 am

hibidy wrote:Oh, is that katy perry's?

that would explain why she kissed a girl

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 6:09 am

bleck! Anyways she has a giant penis onstage, so that is where the reference came from

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 6:12 am

here's what always throws me for a loop........

http://www.ratcliffe.co.za/articles/pickupheight.shtml

You don't have to read all of it (though it's an interesting read) but you go down to the bottom and the recommendations are what I had always set mine up as

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 6:34 am

After reading your post, I tried those settings myself and didn't like them one bit. Basically, the pickups sounded thicker and less clear as they got too close to the strings and sort of weak and distant as they got too far from the strings. When I found heights that were clearly better than others (for my taste, that is), the pickups were pretty much flat.

Anyway, it was an interesting test and it certainly provides another option for affecting tone. The differences I heard were not subtle!

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 6:47 am

Experimenting here.......not sure. I've got the charvel (evo neck/tonezone bridge) with somewhat of what is being said and there are some desirable effects.

-bridge DOES seem to have more sustain

-Neck is a bit more defined.....but it's not geling yet
-Not crazy about the bridge being so much hotter on the bottom.

Interesting....

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 12:23 pm

Uncle E wrote:btw, regarding the location in your signature:

All it needs to be perfect is The T-Pain Effect. Dope 'Ass shit

Actually could use a woman to actually nag at me in the first place

DF2R · Post by **DF2R** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:58 am

So I went to the music store to buy a Roland HD-1 drum kit today. And I bought it.

But...

In an unexpected development, I also came home with one of these (but not a lefty) - I freaking love it: This is my first ever bass.

http://www.stevesmusiccenter.com/Schect ... om4LH.html

(I can't get images to work so sorry it's a link)

Your next guitar?