Those ghetto home invetions of yours

[McLaughysSN]

this is inspired by (sorry i forgot your name) the thread with the slim jim spliter box.

today i figured that i had two dead mics (a computer condenser and an old old (60's or so) univox vocal mic). so i got to work on making a hybrid, i wired the condensers cord with the 1/8" end to the head of the univox mic.

this is what came of it

how about you? :22: :22: :22:

 

[rspst14]

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I ghetto-rigged an audio cable for my buddy's stereo system using multimeter cable and some alligator clips.

Ryan

 

[Zerberus]

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While I think "ghetto" contraptions are usually cool and often work better, I´m too "professional" (for lack of a better word) in my sick head to do something like that. Call me a snob if you want, I just prefer the "mojo" of a finished product to a prototype.


But if it works, Who cares

 

[Frantic_Rock]

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When i put the tex hots into my strat and my friend put a Fred into his JS100, we took my highway 1 single coils and his bridge humbucker from the JS and put them into a busted up yamaha pacifica... We didn't have any screws to hold them up so we took the little plastic ribbons with metal cable inside (You know the ones you twist around a cable to hold it together...) and we twisted them around some extra small screws to hold the pickups in place and it actually worked. We also didn't know how to solder the humbucker so we took a stab at it (and it worked the first time!!!!) I dunno where the guitar is right now... I hope it turns up because its got my single coils in it(which are pretty decent actually)

We then made a bonfire...

 

[Gearjoneser]

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The two that pop into my mind are...

I had an old stock Fender single coil neck pickup and one of those rubber mufflers that fit into an acoustic's soundhole. I wanted to see if I could make a homemade acoustic pickup, so I used a razorblade to cutout a space on the rubber thing and screwed the pickup to it. Then, I made the lead go to a female jack, which I taped to the side of the guitar. Looked kinda dumb, but it worked.

On my pedalboard, the switch that brings in some bypassed pedals is right next to my silent tuner button. Live, I accidentally hit the silent tuner a few times, so I built a little wooden shroud around that button, so I'd have to try harder with my foot to activate it. It's a "ghetto" solution, but problem solved.

 

[Gearjoneser]

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Oh yeah, here's a real useful one that you guys could use!

If you ever have a humbucker that has the ends drilled out for installation with screws, you'll likely have a tough time finding a nut that fits the Duncan bolt, in order to install it into a pickup ring. I went to a bunch of hardware stores and still couldn't find one small enough, with the proper threading.

I ended up finding a junky old stock pickup that was trash and using bolt cutters to snip off it's ends. Then, I put those snipped off tabs underneath the drilled out ends on my new pickup, and put the pickup together with the ring. To stabilize this "ghetto" quickfix, I then soldered those tabs to the drilled out tabs. Another problem solved. :13:

 

[McLaughysSN]

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i currently working on a battery operated amp. i have a spare 3" speaker (from some electronic thinger i took apart) and various parts and caps i need for it.. all i need is acouple here and there parts and a chasis (must be ghetto as well) and i have it.

ill be sure to post it when im finished :22:

 

[flank]

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kinda like gearjoneser....i just literally screwed an ibanez humbucker into the soundhole of my acoustic and got one of those endpin/jack combos......... i used the mounting ring duncan sent me, and just literally drilled it into the edges of the acoustic near the neck....i was very afraid the wood was just going to crack

but all went well and the damn thing sounds amazing.....if you listen to my version of red house down at the link below, yep, its a crappy acoustic with a crappy ibanez powersound drilled into it...

 

[Frantic_Rock]

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flank i don't think you're playin in key on red house. did u intend it this way? lol

 

[flank]

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i never said i played good, i just said the crappy guitar sounded pretty decent lol

 

[Frantic_Rock]

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No please don't take any offence. You play great, its just i think you were in another key - it sounded pretty outside to me But i liked the sound it sorta sounded like a strat or something ballsy with lots of crunch and attitude

 

[flank]

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was i out the whole time?

 

[Frantic_Rock]

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was i out the whole time?

Yes I believe so.

The tune is a 1-4-5 blues in A. I think you played in B the whole time - a whole tone higher Someone correct me if i'm wrong.

 

[Deadbolt]

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I got a hold of this old amp that was a 4x10 combo. it was old has this ugly grey tolex and just crap in general, we used it as a bass amp with an old band. one day the amp just died we changed some fuses and checked it over but nothing. i didn;t feel it was worth taking it to get fixed so it sat for a while. eventuallly i cut the amp from it and made a cabinet. painted it black wired up a jack to it and it works great. i don't push it to too hard but it works fine for as loud as we like to play.

 

[flank]

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your right frantic :smack: is the jimi version in B or am i just imagining? well ill maybe try to re-do it in key..... :dance:

 

[Empty Pockets]

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Well I'm the only one in my band who has a, y'know, job, so we can't afford any "fancy" equipment like mic stands...so we're in the garage singing into a mic that'd duct taped to a rake that's being held up by a Christmas tree stand.

It's amazing what you'll think of after a joint and some Mountain Dew...

 

[MDS]

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When I was 15(1993ish) or so a couple of friends of mine and I used to jam together a lot. We wanted to do a recording to my computer's sound recording program via some riduculously early rendition of a sound blaster(ISA). The whole thing was so ghetto. The drummer had snagged a few vocal mics from school and he had a really cheap Radio Shack DJ mixer. We hung 2 mics off my ceiling fan and used paper plates around them to creat some sort of baffle(in our minds...in retrospect, this was unbelievably retarded). We used the one mic stand we had to mic the bass cab. I crammed the 4th mic in between my mattress and box spring because it was sorta near one of the speakers in my 4x12 cab. We didn't have the right adaptors to go into the sound card, so we used like 4 different adaptors to get down to a miniplug. Uggh...what a mess.

We recorded a couple of Satriani tunes and YYZ or something like that. Pretty hilarious. I remember taking a tape out to my dad's truck to listen back to it. There was this weird booming sound every once in awhile. After much deliberation we realized the damn bass player had been swinging his leg while he was play and kicking his microphone!!

Ah, those were the days. Who'd a thought the drummer and I would go on to be professional audio engineers and I'd be an LA session player...hilarious....

Mike