Some sounds of my tele build. Series/parallel TB-4 and JBE Danny Gatton Neck.

[simonbaker]

Hi.

I thought I'd put up a few sounds that I've recorded of my new guitar build.

This is a Mighty Mite swamp ash body, with a Stewmac Mighty Mite 9 1/2 inch radius rosewood board Strat Neck.

It has Hipshot Griplock tuners, Stainless steel saddles, Mighty Mite H/B Tele Bridge. Also has series and parallel switching on the tone control for the JB.

The tone control has a Greasebucket circuit, which is really great. The Volume has a Kinman Treble bleed circuit.

It's currently wired with a three way switch.

The next mod will be a middle strat pickup. I'm looking at an Area 58 for this. As I'm fully noiseless on this guitar, it makes sense to put a noiseless middle pickup in.

I've heard good things about the Area 58, and I want to give it a try.

Anyway, that is to come in the future, Here are the current sounds.

Everything is clean, through my Marshall 18w clone, which I made. This is close mic'd, off centre with an Audix I5, which is plugged into a Yamaha Mixer, and goes in to my M-Audio Soundcard (I'm starting to sound like John Bohlinger doing a Premier Guitar demo).

I recorded these at 44.1hz 24 bit into Wavelab 7, and added a bit of room reverb and exported as 24bit wav files.

Here goes

Here is the TB4 JB Humbucker on its own with series coils (standard humbucker wiring).


Here is the Humbucker with the coils in parallel. (was aiming for Tele spank, with the stainless saddles as well)


The Bridge pickup in series combined with the Neck pickup (together in parallel)


The Bridge pickup in parallel (coils wired in parallel) combined with the Neck pickup (together in parallel)


Here is the Joe Barden Danny Gatton Neck pickup on its own


I'm not quite the player that could really demonstrate what these are capable of, but I hope I've given a fair account of this guitar's sounds.

 

[simonbaker]

Re: Some sounds of my tele build. Series/parallel TB-4 and JBE Danny Gatton Neck.

Here is a picture of the amp! I thought for full disclosure, I should include it.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Some sounds of my tele build. Series/parallel TB-4 and JBE Danny Gatton Neck.

Man, you have some serious building skills! I am jealous.

Sounds very sweet!

 

[simonbaker]

Re: Some sounds of my tele build. Series/parallel TB-4 and JBE Danny Gatton Neck.

Thanks Twilight.

Here are a few more noodlings. I've gone for more amp gain. This isn't a very high gain amp - it is loud though! I reckon that I can basically make as much noise in the shed tonight as I like with all the local fireworks going off outside.

Theres just the one large clip, starting on the bridge in series, then going parallel, both together in parallel with the bridge in series, both together in parallel with the bridge in parallel, and then just the neck.

Hope this makes sense.



Simon.