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I want to build a guitar with a Piezo and Mag, I want to have a volume control for each, but I want to add a blend pot in between, so that I can control the percentage of each pick up with the blend pot.
I do not want a 3 way switch, I want blend pot
Read more…Here goes nothing! I built a poor mans guitar from Shane's book. Complete with equalizer and rod piezo. Now I want to add a humbucker and a psycho knob. looking to keep the equalizer I have all the parts 250 and 500 pots, caps three way switches and
Read more…Good article on pickup simulation from AMZ-FX, written by guitar electronics guru Jack Orman. Basically you can use any pickup, simple enough right? He even makes reference to CBG’S & 3 pole CBG pickups, give it a try someday?
Hello everybody!
Thought I'd drop these nuggets for anyone looking to wire (3) P90s into their guitars.
First, the middle pickup must be reverse-wound, meaning you would wind the pickup clockwise. The neck and bridge pickup are winded in countercl
Read more…Guys, after assembling yet another 3 stringer with one pick up, one volume pot, and one tone pot, something is amiss. Have never had this issue before. Static noise is heard when the guitar is plugged in, but there is no volume coming from the amp.
Read more…I vaguely remember mention of this on some youtube video, somewhere, in order to provide a 4-pole pickup for a 4-stringer, but I can't find the video in question and may even be misremembering who it was (likely!).
I remember it sounded good.
Has any
Read more…Already in the middle of my build and was going to use a Piezo with a volume knob and jack combo, but just recently got one of Marty Tauber's Wickedbucker, Is there a way to incorporate the wickedbucker into the schematics? Maybe even use a power s
Read more…Hey out there, any wiring diagrams on psycho knob install in a guitar with vol.and tone pots? Thanks in advance
Read more…Hi, The best sites I have found for easy to follow wiring diagrams are the Seymour Duncan site http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/ and the Artec sound pdf that can be found here http://www.artecsound.com/wiring/wiring_book01.pdf If
Read more…Now we are in water FAR over my head...
Friend gave me an old Brownsville 15G amp. So, since I just wired up my Psycho box, let's see how it goes.
Lots of hum. Amp works, Psycho works, though I think I need to dial it in as far as amp settings go.
How
Ready to start my next build and going through the planning stage at the moment. I’m trying to use up spare parts I already have rather than buying more stuff. Got to keep costs down.
Here’s the question anyway. I’ve got a Telecaster neck pickup and
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I have a query about an amplifier I have just acquired, a second hand Roland Cube X20 . It’s in really good condition and all it’s features work fine but when I plug in the jack, before it’s connected to the guitar, I get a distinct hum. Thi
Read more…Up to now I've done all my own soldering etc but recently I've been looking on-line at pre-wired harnesses. Almost all of them include a toggle switch. Why would you need one with just one volume and one tone pot? Do they serve a useful purpose
Read more…I just finished a 3 string. I added the “psycho Knob” from CB Gitty. when I try to get amplification, the PK must be on the pass through mode or in other words, no distortion or effects. It should have been pretty simple. Input to the PK comes fro
Read more…Trying to "hum-proof" my latest build and read somewhere that the jack output leads should be shielded. Can't get shielded cable so am considering wrapping the wires with copper foil tape. I imagine the tape around the ground wire would itself have t
Read more…Hello everyone, I had bought a Black Ice single coil from CB Gitty, (Not the black cube capacitor from Stewmac).
I noticed it came with 3 wires; Red, White and Bare. Last time I saw this kind of wiring were for some EMG active pickups. I don't thi
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I've just wired up my first guitar following wiring diagrams on the net. Mini humbucker, tone and volume pots and jack.
Plugged it in and it all works well except the two pots crackle when I turn the knob. It's O.K. when I'm playing but while
Read more…It was suggested to me that one of my designs might benefit from a built in speaker, so I had a couple of questions about how to go about it.
For starters, I was thinking about breaking apart and rehousing one of those mini amps you see on ebay, but
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