Recent content by Artie

Just arrived yesterday. I have the original 1st gen, and as much as I love it, it always had an issue with headroom on the 1/4" guitar input. It would clip if you looked at it wrong. I almost always used it with a DI box into the XLR connector. The 4th gen model fixes all that, plus adding some...

Like this:

To be honest, I like rails mainly for their look. But I do love the sound of the HR/CR/VR series. And I never miss an opportunity to post my Schecter Blackjack. :-)

Did I miss something? I seem to have it in my mind that Peavey had degraded down to not much more than an office that acted as a distribution house for some cheap-ish import stuff. But while researching something Peavey, I discovered that they seem to have a bunch of cool new stuff. The all...

Your 3rd pic, (rear of the switch), won't work. That's a 3-pole, 4-position. You need the opposite. 4-pole, 3-position. Highlighted in yellow.

Here's the rotary. I'm assuming that the rotary is configured as two wafers. If it isn't, post a pic. Note that the two wafers are wired slightly different. Rotary in the middle, both in-phase. Click one way to reverse one, and click the other way to reverse the other.

Ok, so I drew the initial switch with two colors for a reason. The green is one DPDT switch, and the blue is a 2nd DPDT switch contained in one housing, with one switch upside-down from the other. Flipping the handle down operates the blue section, and flipping the handle up, operates the green...

One more thing. A 4PDT on-on-on switch comes in two types. When the handle is up or down, they're both identical. But when the handle is in the middle, they're different. Which do you have? (Must be checked with a meter.)

I didn't notice the original knobs 'til just this morning. The original owner should be slapped around a little bit. Glad you swapped them out.

These don't look flush to me:

I think that could be sweet. Lipstick tubes don't get talked about much around here. I love my 3-Tube Strat. (Bone stock.) But I should qualify that by saying . . . I like something between the tubes and the amp. Either the Duncan Pup Booster, or my BBE Acoustimax. Their sound is sweet, but they...

Like this. You can use two DPDT switches, or one 4PDT switch.

Never mind. They both work. Do it either way.

That schematic works, with one little mod. In the #5 position, they're turning the neck pup off by floating it's ground. That puts that coil hangin' on the hot side of the circuit. Big ole noise antenna. But an easy fix. Add the cyan jumper I show here. That shorts out the neck single to make...

Here's how I like to do my vol / tone pot grounds. Gently bend back the "ground-side" lug so it touches the case. Use a little pushing down force as you gently bend it so as not to tear the lug away from the resistance trace. Then, use the smallest amount of solder possible. You won't "cook" the...