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When I bend up a couple steps it goes flat! something cancels out the note :( i think it's maybe fret wear? It's right on my 15th *fret high E that's a G..it plays fine but when I bend up bout a step and a half it mutes it out...any ideas?

Hey everyone :) So amps are pretty foreign to me, and I found a sound I like with this amp I LOVE for a les paulish sound with my strat! But i'm getting some crazy humming the gain control is most effected when I turn it up/down but when I turn it down it changes the sound :/ I couldnt begin to...

Hey! Mounting humbuckers, THey come with the thin plastic surrounding (what is that thing called anyways? used to mount it to the front of the body, but can you take that off of there and just mount it directly thru the back of the guitar from the inside? the pickup holes are threaded, but it...

So a 0.022s a 0.022s a 0.022 right? I'm not so sure anymore, sure i think it's fair to say that the change in materials used will effect the tone! I have a polyester film cap sprague 0.22 a ceramic disk cap (RadioShack) 0.022 and a Russian NOS PIO 0.022 and a Vitamin Q nos pio and I can almost...

Re: Anther thread about CAPS Okay so I'm just now getting back to you guys, "The old-style large format capacitors have a much more complex set of electrical properties than just a straight, constant capacitance." Yes that's what they are, first I've been having this problem for a while, so I...

Get it the caps, also it's in CAPS? no, it's not important. what is is that you're reading this! hahaha, ahem. but really, I'm a bit confused about this, I bought some 0.47 caps, but I also bought some 0.047 caps, are those the same? also with 0.1 caps, are those the same as 0.01uF? do they use...

Or am I the only one? Something about guitars and how they respond better or worse to a certain note? I feel like one guitar just kills it with Gs but another one I have responds better to Bs! Am I the victim of a placebo effect here?

I think this works but I just want to see what you guys think about it, putting a jumper from the 5-way switch on the pot side lugs 2&3 3&4 will be a tone for both of those pickups. if i use a cap instead for a jumper will effect them both? or will the signal to thru the pickup with the wire...

would a resistor being used on the ground, practically reduce the ground current? what causes high ground current? if everything is grounded properly is it still possible to need to be grounded further or have the current reduced?

So a few years back my family handed me down some really nice surround sound for my living room complete with a nice big subwoofer, the ssystem is good but too many wires everywhere had to take it down, but I'm lookin at this subwoofer and something keeps telling me I can use this for something...

What do you guys think of the VOX AC15 & AC30s? The valvetronix with the 20 some odd effects on it? Are the older ones better? if they even still make them?

Re: Finally finished this guitar! And I gotta admit... :) Just to log my progess in case I have to backtrack and since I couldn't find the diagram anywhere I had a lot of trial and errors. Problem #1. I didn't have the input jack with an extra ring for the battery ground. problem #2 grounding...

You know the feeling when you work on something for 2 weeks waiting for parts in the mail...All the frustration and redbulls, then you finally finish it and it sounds better than you ever hoped for?? Ahhhh! That's a great feeling :D I gotta admit though, my wiring job looks like crap...

My tone pot, which I have two and they are both identical and both wired up identically, yet one of them is acting like a vol. ?

Need to know that this will work or if not why, thanks.