The Real One Man Band demonstrates his fruit box guitar!
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Thanks for your nice comments. I just got home from heart surgery, so I must crank the amps so neighbors know I am back.
Nice stereo sound! Great setup, effects, bass/guitar CBG, and mostly, the performance!
Yes i did notice like i sayed its nice to be able to play the bass on top 3 or 2 and still play a lead line whit distortion/fuzz and hear it separated in the stereo panorama ,so stereo pickups , thanks for the info ultra magnetics i will check them out, olso did not know that Rickenbacker comes whit a stereo Guitar? what model whoed that be ? do you know ! only whit the hole get up, your a bit stuck to your room, busking in the street must be out of the question? to much to carry! and in the hole story th,e transformer splitterbox plays a vital part i think,and the fact that when you play chords, they are separated aswell, and thats a lesser qualety i think but overall a great efford and piece of work ! be seing and hearing you Allan ! Greeeeettssszz A.D.
You might notice that I can have the bass notes clean yet strings 1-3 can be distorted or vibrato etc. It is really fun. And yet "Rocking In The Free World" can be played with a super nasty/fuzzy bass line, yet the treble guitar part can be clean.
BTW, most "Stereo" stompboxes are not true stereo. They are just routing your mono guitar sound to 2 speakers through a box. Maybe they run the high notes to one amp, but true stereo starts at the source.
My first setup was with a"Stereo Chorus" stompbox. It sounded way better than using one amp and is a cheap way to get better sound. Then think about the effects than can be added by using different stompboxes you already own in line with each amp. Your head might explode, careful.
I bought a small mixing board, ($140) that can have 8 mics plugged into it. Mics are analog, your device is digital. The board has a usb output that plugs into the camera adapter to make your signal digital.
From the board, one mic goes to a guitar amp, one goes to a bass amp. I crank one full left, one full right on the board.
Turn on the Zoom app and hit Record. Turn on the Camera app and Video and hit Record. Then play brilliantly. Both apps stay on at the same time!
How to record in true stereo? Use a newer phone or ipad, with the stereo mics they come with. But I don't own those and I want left and right really separated.
I downloaded the free Zoom mic app on my ipad, then bought the overpriced Apple "Camera adapter kit" which is a $3 adapter that they charge $40 for. It allows a regular usb cord to plug into an ipad along with a powered cord so you have some voltage to the ipad.
Why be "normal"? Regular guitar tuning is not voiced for dudes. Why stress about your lousy singing voice when you can just lower the band? So, make a baritone guitar. It's the same amount of work, just use a longer scale length. They are between guitar length and a bass length. Whey should I learn a new instrument, bass, when I can play the bass part the lazy-man way? You will adapt to it in about 15 minutes. Instead of E to E tuning, go all the way to B to B tuning. First and 6th strings are B.
I made all of my guitar and am able to solder the wires etc, but I wanted my luthier to do the final setup. After 2 weeks, he finally agreed that the wiring could work with two 5 way switches. A mathematics nerd friend says that it gives me a combination of 24 different sounds, not just one, 3 or 5.
So what I made is 2 guitars in one. As an electrician, I wanted a 5 way switch for each set of 3 strings, (2 5 way switches). My luthier said it was impossible. I kept pushing. The electrical problem is NOT the signal wires, it's the grounding to eliminate hum. The pickup maker provides a little magic transformer in the splitter box and guitar that fixes this.
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