Recent content by marcello252

Since I don't use anymore amp at high volume level, even when playing live, I have my Timmy almost always on with my beefed up princeton, with little gain, and a klon to boost it when needed

I agree, and this comes in my mind everytime I hear someone saying that wood doesn't matter and the only thing which matters are the pickups, plenty of videos on YT of people claiming this at bedroom level. I think nobody of them have played a guitar in the right condition where amplified sound...

I don't think I 've understood the type of finish you have, I have a les paul special faded which is practically bare wood with a thin thin coat that could be oil, I can feel the pores too but you seem to describe something different, could you please post a pic ?

Don't want to get in a rabbit hole, but I don't think rules written on stone exist about springs number or angle of the springs unless there is the right amount of even pulling on the strings. For example, I can't exacly check it, but maybe the distance from trem block to claws is different than...

personally, I find the Custom 5 one of the oddest pickup I know, in a negative way, at least with my guitars and rig. It's loud but it's scooped, so you have in hands harsh treble and overpowered bass without the most important characteristic of a HB, the mid which should cut the band mix, a...

there's always room for a new guitar

by the way, this (I guess) 39nF cap doesn't look healthy, now that I'm on PC I see better

Very strange, Timmy is not a complex circuit, it's very consistent in sound, you already doubled checked components placement, right? To make it aggressive I think you cut less trebles and basses, do you still hear it aggressive cutting both more? Have you tried changing the opamp? Maybe it's a...

2 springs only? Are you using 008?

Really? I've always thought it's the mid content coming out of the mix, as far as I understand it's not the main characteristic of the BW. My guiding light in this was an early 90s Jerry Cantrell's interview where he said he asked in mixing just for a peak on 1 KHz, from that moment on I've...

3v is not enough to fry that diode, it is necessary to reverse polarity keeping the supply connected for a long time, are you sure about what happened first? Because it could change the place to look at for damages

And that's a point I've never thought about where decimal metric system wins, you don't always need clear subdivision in an analog world, it's just an approximation, why do you need exactly 1/12? How can you be sure the half is really a half? So let's do it easy, 10m, you want a tenth? 1m, you...

9 to 12 is not that huge to fry everything, double check and eventually replace every electrolytical caps, then check voltages at pin 8 of the opamp, must be in the 8-9 range

What drives me mad is not the double decimal, it is the fraction reading, in 10 base you can more or less have a guess with a little mental math, with fractions in base 8 or 12 or 16, often mixed, it's very very difficult for me, but I bet it's difficult for you guys using Imperial too

Loud but overpriced and with unreliable tuning, it might fit (just kidding)