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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:32 am
by Mages
got the pickguard:
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check out my wiring jorb on the pots:
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treble bleed dealio on the volume pot, and mallory cap on the tone. don't have any sheilding tape on there at the minute....

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:50 am
by hotrodperlmutter
that looks great.

coming along real nice.

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:50 am
by Thomas
Very neat.

Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 3:40 am
by Mages
finally got it all together.
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It sounds and plays great. the neck feels great. IMO it's a little bit chunkier than your standard modern strat neck which I really like.

I'm thinking of changing the tone knob out for something else. your normal low-pass filter tone control is kind of useless on a guitar that only has a neck pickup. I think I'm gonna try this out:
Midrange Boost / Cut Modification

Here's another cool mod for your tone control designed by Torres Engineering. It's a mid cut / boost (sort of) control that replaces your tone control and adds a few parts. When you turn down the mid control it cuts the mids yet leaves the lows and highs. When you turn up the mid control it rolls off some Lows and highs and leaves the mids, so it sounds as though you added mids. The only way to truly add anything is to have a active eq or preamp installed (which requires a battery.) Just follow the diagram below, make sure the lead coming from the inductor to the Resistor/Cap network is insulated (the other lead doesn't matter cause it's soldered to the back of the pot along with the tabs on the inductor, just make sure you have room for it on the side of the pot or solder it to the back of the pot).

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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 3:25 pm
by DGNR8
Love it. Get a robroe cover on that pickup though. White or black. Wish they had RED!

Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 3:34 pm
by stewart
looks delicious!

Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:52 pm
by taylornutt
Looks great. Good Job.

Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:51 am
by Mages
super quick demo
[youtube][/youtube]

so hey Fran, this is what I've come up with for a john squire sound. I'm using an SD-1 clone (tubescreamer would also work), a CE-3/CS9 type stereo chorus (an "Applause Super Chorus"), a Digitech Digiverb reverb pedal (set on "church"), and a Dano Peach Fuzz (my fuzz face battery is dead so this is the next closest thing. the gain is a bit too high right here but you get the idea).

Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 4:36 pm
by Noirie.
mage wrote:super quick demo
[youtube][/youtube]

so hey Fran, this is what I've come up with for a john squire sound. I'm using an SD-1 clone (tubescreamer would also work), a CE-3/CS9 type stereo chorus (an "Applause Super Chorus"), a Digitech Digiverb reverb pedal (set on "church"), and a Dano Peach Fuzz (my fuzz face battery is dead so this is the next closest thing. the gain is a bit too high right here but you get the idea).
Thats awesome also favourited it on youtube btw. How did you setup that chourus of yours then?

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 4:45 pm
by DGNR8
That sounds great!

Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 5:49 pm
by Fran
AMAZING!! Sounds great Haze Mage, you got it nailed, love it.
I was messing around on my Ibanez FL-9 today which is very smooth and subtle, it led me to play I wanna be adored.

Love the black & red tort, my fave combination. 8)

Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 6:10 pm
by Sublimedo
Fran wrote:AMAZING!! Sounds great Haze, you got it nailed, love it.
I was messing around on my Ibanez FL-9 today which is very smooth and subtle, it led me to play I wanna be adored.

Love the black & red tort, my fave combination. 8)
poor mage

Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 6:31 pm
by Fran
Corrected. I've done this before. Fuck, im developing dyslexia.. must be years of writing 'teh'.

Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 11:40 pm
by Mages
haha, cheers fran.