effects inside the guitar.
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Rich_S
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Re: effects inside the guitar.
I once had a LP that I installed a Boss CE-2 Chorus in. I changed out the chorus' pots for little trim pots, then set them the way I wanted inside the guitar. No changing chorus settings from outside. A push/pull pot turned the chorus onff and on. I put a rechargable 9 volt battery underneath the bridge pickup, with a charger jack on the control cavity cover plate.
The only mod visible from the front was the chorus' "active" LED, poking through the bridge pickup ring, next to the upper height adjustment screw.
It was weird, but it worked.
I once had a LP that I installed a Boss CE-2 Chorus in. I changed out the chorus' pots for little trim pots, then set them the way I wanted inside the guitar. No changing chorus settings from outside. A push/pull pot turned the chorus onff and on. I put a rechargable 9 volt battery underneath the bridge pickup, with a charger jack on the control cavity cover plate.
The only mod visible from the front was the chorus' "active" LED, poking through the bridge pickup ring, next to the upper height adjustment screw.
It was weird, but it worked.
Jeroen
New member
Re: effects inside the guitar.
Check out the guitars Manson made for Matthew Bellamy of Muse. A little example:
Body: Mahogany
Body covering: Matt black
Neck pickup: Seymour Duncan Hot P90
Bridge pickup: Kent Armstrong Motherbucker
Neck: Birds-eye maple, rosewood fingerboard
Special circuit 1: Zvex Fuzz Factory
Special circuit 2: MXR Phase 90
Special circuit 3: Graphtech Ghost acoustic saddles via preamp
Special circuit 4: Zvex Wah Probe
Special circuit 5: Fernandes Sustainer pickup system
Special circuit 6: MIDI strip controller
Special circuit 7: Toggle kill switch
Check out the guitars Manson made for Matthew Bellamy of Muse. A little example:
Body: Mahogany
Body covering: Matt black
Neck pickup: Seymour Duncan Hot P90
Bridge pickup: Kent Armstrong Motherbucker
Neck: Birds-eye maple, rosewood fingerboard
Special circuit 1: Zvex Fuzz Factory
Special circuit 2: MXR Phase 90
Special circuit 3: Graphtech Ghost acoustic saddles via preamp
Special circuit 4: Zvex Wah Probe
Special circuit 5: Fernandes Sustainer pickup system
Special circuit 6: MIDI strip controller
Special circuit 7: Toggle kill switch
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Guest
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Re: effects inside the guitar.
Great body... that's all.
No wait.
Paging Walters!
Great body... that's all.
No wait.
Paging Walters!
larry_emder
New member
Re: effects inside the guitar.
Thats ridiculous....
The questions begs, why would you , when its so much easier to just stomp on something
Thats ridiculous....
The questions begs, why would you , when its so much easier to just stomp on something
More-Gear-Than-Skill
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Re: effects inside the guitar.
Lyle Workman (Beck & Frank Black and many others...) had a zany axe with a Kaos Pad in it! http://www.korg.com/gear/info.asp?A_PROD_NO=KP2
Lyle Workman (Beck & Frank Black and many others...) had a zany axe with a Kaos Pad in it! http://www.korg.com/gear/info.asp?A_PROD_NO=KP2
SpeedDemon
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Re: effects inside the guitar.
that would be amazing!
More-Gear-Than-Skill said:
that would be amazing!
MattPete
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Re: effects inside the guitar.
I so wanted one of these when I was in middle school. It's a Cort Effector, and it was sold through Sears in the early 1980s for $200. One side of me was saying it's a bargain: "it's a guitar *and* it has effects built in!". The other side of me was saying that it must be piece of crap. I think I ended up with an Aria Pro 2.
Here it is, in all of it's Effector glory:
I so wanted one of these when I was in middle school. It's a Cort Effector, and it was sold through Sears in the early 1980s for $200. One side of me was saying it's a bargain: "it's a guitar *and* it has effects built in!". The other side of me was saying that it must be piece of crap. I think I ended up with an Aria Pro 2.
Here it is, in all of it's Effector glory:
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Guest
Guest
Re: effects inside the guitar.
I'd hit that and I'm not an Explorer man.
Joe Perry's first signature guitar (not the Boneyard) has something added in, I think it's a tremolo effect.
EMG has something called an Afterburner. A booster. Might be interresting.
Or you could get a Black Ice and suck LOL. Never heard a good review of it.
I'd hit that and I'm not an Explorer man.
Joe Perry's first signature guitar (not the Boneyard) has something added in, I think it's a tremolo effect.
EMG has something called an Afterburner. A booster. Might be interresting.
Or you could get a Black Ice and suck LOL. Never heard a good review of it.
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Lewguitar
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Re: effects inside the guitar.
I once installed a MXR Dyna-Comp inside a '63 Strat. What a stupid thing to do! Effects don't belong in guitars. Guitars last forever...effects come and go. Lew
I once installed a MXR Dyna-Comp inside a '63 Strat. What a stupid thing to do! Effects don't belong in guitars. Guitars last forever...effects come and go. Lew
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Re: effects inside the guitar.
That's it, my bad.
I just noticed.
João, tudo bem?
That's it, my bad.
I just noticed.
João, tudo bem?
Metalman_666
Well-known member
Re: effects inside the guitar.
That would be a really cool idea, but in my opinion it would only work if you wanted to keep the settings of the effect once you put it in your guitar. That or use multiple knobs for the parameters. Might be neat to try it out actually...
That would be a really cool idea, but in my opinion it would only work if you wanted to keep the settings of the effect once you put it in your guitar. That or use multiple knobs for the parameters. Might be neat to try it out actually...
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Re: effects inside the guitar.
Never tried it, but never heard anyone that liked it. It's just a small thingy you solder to one of your tone pots and supposedly works like an EMG afterbooster.
Brian May also had a fuzz at one point but took it of. I don't know if Eric Clapton can be considered to have effects in his guitar.
Never tried it, but never heard anyone that liked it. It's just a small thingy you solder to one of your tone pots and supposedly works like an EMG afterbooster.
Brian May also had a fuzz at one point but took it of. I don't know if Eric Clapton can be considered to have effects in his guitar.
Re: effects inside the guitar.
anybody ever play the gibson eb-3 i think i t was with the built in fuzz it was crazy sounding but stupid as i was i listened to my dad and didnt buy it it iwas like 250 at this little store that wound up closing soon after i went back but it was too late
anybody ever play the gibson eb-3 i think i t was with the built in fuzz it was crazy sounding but stupid as i was i listened to my dad and didnt buy it it iwas like 250 at this little store that wound up closing soon after i went back but it was too late
More-Gear-Than-Skill
New member
Re: effects inside the guitar.
I guess, the only reason one might want a on-board effect, is if you have to have it right there for fingers to tweak settings. The muse guitar has something similar to a KaosPad in it's little metal pickguard. It uses some strange magnectic/proximity plate to control the effects. I've seen live muse videos where he's playing, and moving his hand above/accross that plate, and the guitar is making the most insane sounds. All this while his feet are controlling his digitech Whammy pedal!
Sticking a distortion effect in a guitar seems silly...
Or worse, a wah that is controlled by a pot on the guitar. Wah's were invented to simulate the sound of opening and closing the tone on a guitar, easily, errr, with the foot...
I guess, the only reason one might want a on-board effect, is if you have to have it right there for fingers to tweak settings. The muse guitar has something similar to a KaosPad in it's little metal pickguard. It uses some strange magnectic/proximity plate to control the effects. I've seen live muse videos where he's playing, and moving his hand above/accross that plate, and the guitar is making the most insane sounds. All this while his feet are controlling his digitech Whammy pedal!
Sticking a distortion effect in a guitar seems silly...
Or worse, a wah that is controlled by a pot on the guitar. Wah's were invented to simulate the sound of opening and closing the tone on a guitar, easily, errr, with the foot...
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Jeroen
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Re: effects inside the guitar.
Actually, the MIDI-strip controls the Whammy. Matt's wish was to have a Whammy built in to the guitar, but it would need an external power supply as batteries just couldn't keep up with it, so Hugh Manson suggested he'd build MIDI-controls into the guitar to control the Whammy, which he did after the approval of Matt.
More-Gear-Than-Skill said:
Actually, the MIDI-strip controls the Whammy. Matt's wish was to have a Whammy built in to the guitar, but it would need an external power supply as batteries just couldn't keep up with it, so Hugh Manson suggested he'd build MIDI-controls into the guitar to control the Whammy, which he did after the approval of Matt.
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