Hi folks. Just trying to get my head around pickups and wondering about the benefits of a three-string guitar using a three pole pickup. Am I wrong in believing that each pole of a pickup reads to the side too? Do strings HAVE TO run dead centre of
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I've been making a pedal board recently, and have run into a spot of bother.
I made the board itself from some re-purposed Ikea Gorm shelving, and was rather pleased with the result. I bought a Caline CP-05 power supply and I was up and ru
Read more…So I am in the middle of my fanciest build yet. I am following Ted's diagram for two pickups (in my case a telecaster pup and a piezo disc), a 3 way toggle switch, a volume pot, and a jack. I see in his diagram that I need to wire all the negatives t
Read more…I have a two-disc piezo pick up to install in a tin. I've bored the hole in the side of the tin and got the jack outward pointing and in place but what do I do with the discs? What's the best way to attach them to the lid of the tin? Sellotape? PVA g
Read more…Truth is...I've been focusing on CBG acoustics. Electronics haven't interested me much. But now I have this Flathead box that just yells out "plug me in!"
So here I go...
I prefer the broad smooth humbucker sound over standard pickups. I pulled apart
Read more…Don't forget to Solder all Ground Connections to Back of Guitar Pot
Read more…I have a humbucker pickup with two wires (hot/ground). Instead of stripping out alot more of the ground portion of the pickups ground wire (way more than the hot wire length ...can I just add wire to the pickups ground wire and ground the extra wire/
Read more…I put a set of the image shown ones in 'Texas Blues' and finally got around to plugging it in and in short even looking at it is picked up them.
Apart from yanking them out what else can I use with them to limit unwanted noises such as a bracelet tou
Read more…If this has been discussed before please forgive me. I searched but couldn't find it. I bought a humbucker online and discovered when it arrived it is a 4 conductor pickup. It didn't come with any info on how it's wired. I figured the color code must
Read more…I'm beginning a new build where I will be using a single coil mag pickup in a special box. I don't want to cut a hole in the top ruining the beautiful graphic. If I mount the pickup under the lid (it's a bit more than 1/4" thick) will I lose any sen
Read more…I saw a good instructable for making homemade pickups. Here is the link: http://m.instructables.com/id/cheap-and-easy-guitar-pickups/#share-buttons
Read more…Someone recently gave me an old mag pickup that has three wires soldered to it. I want to just connect it directly to an output jack but am not sure which wire goes where. Anyone have an idea?
Read more…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…Can you use an electric guitar that works on a 110-120 volt AC amp in Canada or the USA overseas in Australia or New Zealand on a 220-240 volt AC amp, or is it best to bring a battery powered amp along?
Read more…Ok, so this is not the first time I have done this and I am not sure why it's not working now. I have two piezo discs wired in parallel. Both hot leads are together and going to post 1 on my 250K volume pot. The negative leads are together and sol
Read more…Hello, I have a "pair of bleach enclosed 4-pole pickups" that I bought from C. B. Gitty ( p/n: 54-017-01 ) that I was planning to use as a pair. On my current build I don't have the room for the pair and was wondering if there is any reason I couldn'
Read more…Hello all! I have a question regarding shielding electronics in a CBG.
In a solid body guitar (like a Strat), each routed cavity is normally wrapped with copper foil to reduce or eliminate hum and feedback. Typically, our CBGs are just a hollow box
Read more…My most recent build was my first electric. I was surprised to see how well a piezo pickup actually works, since it was my first one. However, it is a little quiet and a LOT tinny. If I don't turn the "high" setting down to about zero on my amp it
Read more…Is it possible to make a 4 pole pickup act like a blade style pickup? Could I attach a steel bar across the 4 poles and have the pickup work? I will be using this mag pickup on my 3 string CBG.
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