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Comment by Southern Ray 17 hours ago

 Great thread! I learned a lot from this one. Brain hurt.

Comment by BrianQ. on Tuesday

I remember it, it kinda looked like a 60’s Burns with all the plastic control plates on the face? Line 6 pretty much has that modeling guit market sewn up with their Variax guitars tho? 

Comment by the anonymous pick on Tuesday

The Volkswagen guitar i mean . 

Comment by the anonymous pick on Tuesday

Yeah . it had a good concept ,  but was  generally considered a pos . Needed some more production  tweeking me thinks .

Comment by BrianQ. on Tuesday

That guitar has an onboard midi interface like the iRig software?

Comment by the anonymous pick on Tuesday

Thanks guys , It's spring cleanup nowadays in most places ,    a good time to look out for washer and driers ,  Older models have a  end of cycle buzzer , usually located in the top right of the   control panel .  looks like a  lil jackhammer  with an axle  usually banging against a piece of metal or the side of the machine . Another  coil grab. for ya . and some have some funky knobs too.

And then we have piezos .------  musical greeting cards , microwave ovens , some older stylophones , etc etc . aRE all good PIEZO grabs .

On another note . (Amp related , not pickup related . ) In 2006 volkswagon  had a deal with first act guitars ,   You would get a free vw guitar with  purchase of the car , and the car was fitted with a guitar amp in the radio . so you could tailgate party  and just plug you guitar into the car . open the doors and jam out . 

This had folks calling auto wreck yards looking for that radio ..  but . un-benounced to many . the  amp  wont work with  just plugging a regular guitar into it .   The first act guitar had an amp modular circuit in it  that allowed  it to work  with the car radio amp.

However ,  You can still do this with any  car radio and any  guitar , If your car has a 3.5mm input jack, you can get a preamp or headphone amp, and plugthe guitar into it, and the preamp into the car.  presto !  The reason you can't just plug the guitar into the car is that the stereo is looking for a line level signal, of between 1 and 1.6 volts while the guitar puts out about a third of that.

still may have volume issues tho . 

ok .   babble over . 

peace out. 

Comment by BrianQ. on Tuesday

Ray, best to use wall warts rated higher than 9 volts, the higher resistance will give a louder pickup?

Comment by Southern Ray on Tuesday

Thanks to Pick for the list. I knew of most of them, but not all. One thing to add, though. If the wall-wart doesn't have some heft to it, it likely doesn't have enough wire to do anything with.

Comment by Southern Ray on Tuesday

Thank you Peter! Oh goody! I have another thing to tear apart! 

 

Comment by Peter Bryenton on Sunday

Info for BrianQ:

The DC resistance of the pickup measured at the guitar's output jack socket is 7.3K ohms.

The output level works very well with my Crate GT212 amp at between 3 and 4 on its gain knob. Subjectively it's loud to my ears.

Cheers, Peter.

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