Recent content by crazytooguy

Is this a DIY operation? I have an old (1980) Duncan '59 in my LP and I would like to set up coil taps, but the wiring is two conductor (braided shield, center core hot lead). Is it major surgery to replace the wire with four conductor wire so i can access the coils separately? Anyone do this...

Hi all. I need some pickups for a 5-string bass, and I'm after a very clean, deep almost hi-fi sound. No fat (muddy?) midrange or over emphasized highs, just clear, deep bass with a strong fundamental. The bass will be used a lot for direct recording. I'm thinking active soapbars like the...

OK, I know this has probably been done to death, but I'm asking anyway. What would be perfect as far as I'm concerned is a wah pedal that had just the right voicing, a real smooth pedal action, and was DEAD quiet. Oh, and with a hard-wired bypass. I'm thinking a wah with the voicing like SRV's...

I'm building an electric specifically for slide (no frets, higher action, no lower horn on body) and I'd like some pickup suggestions. I'm leaning towards a Pearly Gates for the growl, but I'm open to other ideas. As far as a sound, think early Billy Gibbons (hence the Pearly Gates...), other...

I'm hooking up a processor to a guitar amp, and the processor (Lexicon MPX 1) has the standard 1/4" phone tip-ring-sleeve balanced outputs. I want to wire this to a standard 1/4" plug (2 conductor). Here's the question: Do I short the ring contact to ground (shorting the negative side of the...

I've finished the rebuild of my old custom Strat - had SD rewind my old Quarter Pound neck pup, got an EMG SA for the bridge position, and set up a wicked series parallel switching setup and the sound is Primo! I'd laid off music for a long time - I was last onstage in 1985!! Did the family...

OK, y'all. Moving forward with my custom Tele project and womdering what experiences you've had with these two compensated nut designs. I fully agree with the idea that a compensated nut gives much better intonation, but which system is best? The Earvana is just the nut - it mainly works on the...

Hi all. I'm using a Classic Stack in my Strat and I wired it with the on-on-on switch so I get series/split/parallel. Looking at the wiring diagrams, though, it looks like in the split position the top coil is grounded and the lower coil is active. The tone is fairly soft in this position, so is...

I'm putting together a Tele and was considering SS frets for the neck. Now, a little logic says that the fret can contribute to the sound, since it's the other "tiepoint" for the string, except for open string notes. So, it would seem that most notes on the guitar would be affected by the fret...

THey've been offline for several days now. All I get is some sitename called "adhost". Please don't tell me they've gone belly-up! I need a Tele rosewood neck!!

I'm seeing a lot of solidbody guits with chambers routed in them. I see how it would make a guitar lighter, but what effect does it have on tone? I'm not talking about a semihollow like the ES 335, but Strat and Tele bodies with completely enclosed hollow chambers. I'm working on a custom Tele...

Tell me about it - what kind of sounds you get, how you like it, that sort of stuff. Thanks!

I'm looking for a delay processor for reverb, echo, flanging and chorusing in a rackmount setup. It'll probably run either in my combo amps' effects loop, or in between a tube pre and tube power amp. What sounds good? What's your favorite? Thanks!!

It's a bit of a weird combo, but that fits me just fine :D Strat, with solid rosewood neck Duckbucker bridge Classic Stack (from about 1981) in the middle, with a series/parallel/split switch Rewound Quarter Pound (also from 1981) in the neck, with coiltap switch Best sound I've gotten is all...