Hi to the Aussie members. I built 38 for a lot of talented and famous musicians, but I've hung up the boots. I have a LOT of really great boxes I collected over the years. Give me a shout of you are looking for great boxes. Some I bought on my travel
Read more…OK, so a day of frigging around with different stuff has lead me to a passive tone control for piezo.
Some background: If you ever tried a normal guitar volume and tone setup on a passive piezo, you'll know the tone control doesn't work as it should.
Read more…I was making a 3 string for a VERY small lady, so I tried to make a very low profile neck for her tiny hands. All was going well until I tested the rigidity and discovered I had made a pretty good bow instead.
So what to do? Routed the back of the nec
I've been playing a round with tunings a bit. Personally I prefer modal tunings to triad tunings, so I usually tune a 4 string to GDGD. That tuning has a lot of possibilities, and for someone like me (who can't really play) it has a lot of easy stuff
Read more…Hey peeps. I did this one a while ago but thought I better join this group as I have two commissions for basses starting soon. They are both for legendary bass players here in Australia. The first is a 2-stringer because the player saw Hall & Oates b
Read more…Hey peeps. I wrote this up because I wish someone had told me all this stuff when I started. This is just my way of doing it. No doubt others have better methods and if they wrote a tutorial that would be way cool. Anyhoo, hopefully someone will find
Read more…If you want to build a Twin T to this spec:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4clf4PlP0A&feature=youtu.be
Schematic below. Use 2C=0.0022uf (code 222) and C=0.001uf (code 102). Resistors are 6.8kHz. Wire two together in series to make one R of 13.6kHz (
Read more…http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49226314/Blind%20Gee's%20Fretting%20Tutorial.pdf
There will be a handy tip or two for most people in there.
Read more…Hi cbg-ers. I am looking at making the Don Tillman preamp circuit available as a printed board for those who don't have experience in soldering up circuits. I've found the Tillman circuit to be very good for piezos and adding a preamp to your gat wil
Read more…http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49226314/4%20string%20chord%20shapes.pdf
I think I've covered most of these movable chords. I might get around to doing one that includes open strings one day.
Enjoy! (Gitty, feel free to put this in the How To Play sectio
Read more…I've worked out all these closed chord shapes (no open strings) so you can just move them around for different keys. Pretty much all here. Enjoy.
Has anyone had success with the film-type piezos? I couldn't get enough level out of them. Anyone tried the flexible cable-type piezos?
Read more…Hi guys and gals. This resource has been a gem. Thanks to Shane and to all who contribute. I hope I'll be able to help someone down the track too. I'm on my second build and I've come a long way and still have much to learn. Most of this stuff I can
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