New Products - Opinions Please / On-Board Circuits

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I would say a Nosuck circuit.. But Id hit a not and become spontaneous human combustion.

I'd LOVE a mid boost. I LOVE the one on my Charvel 4. Would be cool to have a replacement for it.
To be more in line with what Id get more mileage out of is some sort of midboost on a cocentric (sp?) pot. Many of my guitars are LP style and I wouldnt want to lose or alter any of the knobs. But if one of the tone knobs could be a push pull mid boost or similar, that would be killer!
 
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Hmm, well I want to do something where I can have a phaser, a flanger, an octaver, etc. in my guitar. With a parametric EQ a la zappa's '88 Performance Strat. Could be fun, although I'm not sure how it'd all fit in a strat's PG without a LOT of routing and batteries.
 
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I was reading something about Jerry Garcia's guitars a long time ago and it mentioned that he used a "Unity Gain Buffer" in the control cavity to prevent signal loss through lots of effects. I think a Seymour Duncan version of this would be cool.

"Push your tone through."

A small circuit board/battery combo would probably fit in most existing guitars. Price-wise under $100 would get my vote.
 
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Always thought it would be cool to have a "built in" MXR Micro Amp type boost.

Not sure if I'd buy one "after market" but if it was built in the instrument already, yeah.
 
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Evan Skopp said:
We were discussing new products to release and one of the things we're talking about are on-board circuits for guitar. They could be mid-boost, EQ, or anything for that matter.

What do you think about that?

Would you buy one for your guitar?

If so, what product sounds the coolest to you?

If so, how much would you pay?

Our goal is to give you the tools you need. Thank you in advance for offering your opinions here.
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Everyone has a boost of some sort....

I would like a tone knob that could actually be used for something other than a resistor.

How about a tone knob (probably active) that would take medium-hot and high output 'buckers and reduce the output to the more moderate levels of traditional PAF tone while increasing dynamics and curving the voicing to a more PAF tone. While all the way up, it would have the same effect as a standard 500K pot.


A trim pot could be added on the back of it to adjust for varying pups (set it all the way down and adjust the trim for the appropriate "PAF tone" for your particular pup/guitar.

Just a thought, but I would love a device that would dial back a Distortion or Crazy 8 type output/tone to '78/PG sounds.

I think a price range of $55 to $80 or so would be about right, yup I would buy it if it worked as advertised.
 
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Dual parametric EQ to work with 2 passive pickups. Programable via usb port with settings saved to flash memory.
 
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A parametric EQ with a control that replaces your tone pot.Use a dual concentric pot for your centre freq. and your + - DB. Control,or with a switch in it as well for Q control[2 widths].:14:

And an interface box[that you sits between the guitar cord and the amp input] and an end board[for inside guitar]that phantom powers the guitar using any standard guitar cords
 
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Great ideas, guys. They have been shared with SD's best and brightest!
 
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... loved the active circuit in the old Music Man Sabre Strats. A kewl acquiantance of mine, (Rupert Holmes guitarist) Dean Bailin, used a Sabre with the 'Pina Colada' songman for years... very versatile and useable sounds out of that active EQ thing...

... also... dunno if you ever recall in the late '70s/early '80s an on-board booster called a "Frog", but it was a germanium JFET preamp... (rumoured) to been used/experimented with by EVH and also Steve Vai... though Steve won't cop to using one, because I asked him... :banghead: It gave a roaring overdrive tone. Andy Summer's Tele preamp is reportedly a similar circuit as the Frog... but could also be homemade. I'd love to put something like that in my Brazen... maybe just to buffer/even-up the volumes the between the single coils and the Custom Custom... :friday:
 
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If it's not too late --

Some stuff for bass!
active preamp
variable Q hi/mid/lo boost/cut
 
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Hi Evan, I'd like to see an onboard circuit that would work with vintage style Strat pickups like the Surfer or Texas Hot or SSL-1 or APS-1 type pickups to make then sound as exact as possible to a great sounding paf humbucker.

And I'd like to see an onboard circuit that would work with vintage paf style humbuckers to clean them up and give them as exact a tone as possible to a great vintage Strat pickup. I'd use something like that mostly with the neck humbucker because I really miss the sound of a Strat neck pickup sometimes when I'm playing rhythm or clean styles on a two humbucker Gibson guitar.

Lew
 
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IMO, the secret sauce missing from most onboard circuits is power. 9V batteries are a PITA. There's also the issue of space: fitting a battery into a Tele without routing is a bit of a challenge. If you can come up with a way to power the circuit without having to rout out the guitar to make room or unscrew a pickguard/control cover to replace a battery, you'll be a lot more likely to succeed.

Something like the way they provide phantom power to a Variax might be nice. Another alternative might be an offboard battery pack that clips to the guitar strap like a wireless. That might also be appealing to folks who run active pickups in their guitars: never again would you have to open up your guitar to change a battery.
 
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I want my Les Paul to sound like a Strat and my Strat to sound like a Les Paul.

While you're at it, I want it to also turn lead into gold.
 
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I don't know if an on board circuit is the solution to this minor problem but:

I love the triple shot rings (best thing since sliced bread). The only problem that I have with them is that they eliminate the option of spin-a-splits. I haven't tried spin-a-splits in any of my guitars, but I would like to give it a try. At the same time, I would hate to give up the versitility of my triple shot rings.

Sometihing that everyone should realize is that whoever came up with the triple shots didn't come up with a whole new wiring diagram: They came up with an elegant solution which is accessable, understandable, and blows a boat load of push-pulls right out of the water.

I don't know if it's posslible, but if there could be two more solder pads on the triple shot board to do spin-a-split, that would be great.

p.s. whoever invented the triple shots deserves as huge raise.
 
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I'm thinking you could just run a push/pull that sends the wires to the spinner or the TS.
 
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aleclee said:
IMO, the secret sauce missing from most onboard circuits is power.
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This is a really good point. A lot of us have 48v phantom power available. It would be nice to have an adapter cable to recharge a 9V lithium-ion battery for active electronics.
 
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Evan Skopp said:
Great idea. I'm not sure how it would exist as an on-board circuit...
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could you mount a dummy coil to the underside of a PCB, and a boost-type circuit on top?

GoldenVulture said:
A parametric EQ with a control that replaces your tone pot.Use a dual concentric pot for your centre freq. and your + - DB. Control,or with a switch in it as well for Q control[2 widths].:14:
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this is the sh1t; it's going to need to be simple and effective, like a mild level/mid-range boost or a frequency filter/gain boost. if it was going to go into a custom guitar or something that already has heaps of holes you could expand on it and have time-based effects added as well but without either requiring power or deadening the tone, getting all that onto a small on-board unit would be a costly endeavour.
 
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