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Posted: 2/25/2007 5:51:08 PM | late
yes it is a 'sand amp'
I emailed to see if I can get them to go with the second highest bidder($1 less)
I am going 3 prong on the 2 60's canadian amps,should I still use the ground reverse switch with 3 prong operation?
have you ever used those fb tech by morley noise eliminators?
it is some type of safe ground lift box
are there others out there available to interface with troublesome gear?
IE
after the 3 prong mod ,if I have still noise issue when using my reamp system infront of the 60's combos
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Posted: 2/25/2007 7:42:13 PM | I am going 3 prong on the 2 60's canadian amps,should I still use the ground reverse switch with 3 prong operation?
No need, polarity is already dealt with - you just need on/off.
The hum is probably also coming from a leaky "death cap".
have you ever used those fb tech by morley noise eliminators?
it is some type of safe ground lift box
Never needed a hum eliminator, if I run two amps (where there could be a potential loop), I split the signal with a JD1 DI.
are there others out there available to interface with troublesome gear?
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after the 3 prong mod ,if I have still noise issue when using my reamp system infront of the 60's combos
Cross that bridge when you come to it, sometimes ground problems can "float". Also, there are many different places in a circuit that can cause hum that aren't ground related.
One thing at a time.
Since installing a properly grounded cable (and removing the death cap), is a basic safety issue anyway, see if that works.
Remember what it is that caps do, and re-visit the post where I detailed discharging caps before doing anything inside the chassis.
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Posted: 2/27/2007 12:06:20 AM | Late, on your 2/17/07 post you said:
Nope, the difference is about 3db, watts and perceived volume level is exponential, half the volume of 100 watts is 10 watts, half the volume of 50 watts is 5 watts.
I just did the calculation on a calculator and it is 7.071 watts. | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 6:50:27 PM | | I would assert that I am rather new to the technicals of the guitar and I am un-experienced with most brands and models. Thus far I have played a Japanese made Stratocaster from the early 1990's, an Ibanez Gio, and shortly I shall have an Epiphone Casino to dissect, it should be fun; what think you guitar connoisseur? Furthermore, I have acquired an "Ibanez Smashbox" and a Muff Fuzzpedal, I hope to gain a Wah-Wah Pedal, an Octave Pedal, and perhaps a chorus, that would be most neat, thank you. | |
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Posted: 3/2/2007 5:25:00 AM | cool..... I suddenly had two Mallory 150 series .022 uf caps fall into my lap today. I should swap out the shitty caps that are in my Kramer Focus with these to see if there's any dif..... will take like 10 minutes to do.  | |
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Posted: 3/4/2007 10:31:15 AM | well, I have an Ibanez artcore- flat wound strings (of course), Fender hotrod deluxe.
Effects- like a clean tone, sometimes use effects I've made myself (distortion based and tone shaping) also own a Moog ring-mod
Planning on building a single-ended amp (like princeton etc.)
P.S does anyone know what gear Kenny Burrell used?? | |
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Posted: 3/4/2007 1:52:59 PM | ok, wiring question
I opened up my kramer's cavity to swap some caps, and noticed that the humbucker (it's a 4 conductor Seymour Duncan Distortion btw) is wired to the 5 way switch by the GREEN wire.
Isn't the green wire supposed to be to ground with the shield wire, and the BLACK wire is supposed to be wired to the switch? | |
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Posted: 3/4/2007 3:58:13 PM | himi jendrix
yes the green wire is ground.......theories
1- it was wired wrong
2-there is some kinda need to reverse phase the bridge pick up so it is in phase with the middle/ neck
3-maybe some kinda coil tapping mod
advice
-go to the seymour site-there is tons of great info a diagrams | |
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Posted: 3/6/2007 9:26:43 AM | Hey GM....
Maybe you can help me out, I have several guitars, but one in particular; my 97 jap tele custom reissue has an issue with p/u switching.
I recently had it apart, putting shielding tape in the cavities trying to quiet it down. Lets just say I "gave 'er onions" with respect to the shielding. The shielding was effective, and I also replaced the stock caps with orange drops, and installed a new p/u selector switch. Texas special bridge p/u, and brass compensated saddles are also done. The last thing I can do to this is change the pots to good cts ones. If you have any pot value suggestions, that would be great as the original ones are a mix of 250 and 500k jap mini pots which I'm sure I can improve on. I "think" the original american versions had 500k across the board.
ok, bak to the problem I'm having. When I have the p/u selector in the middle, I'm not getting the mix. Just (or so it seems) the bridge p/u is live. Could I be grounding out on the shielding tape(it's everywhere lol) or could I have a cold solder somewhere? Puzzled...
Thanks bro!
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Posted: 3/6/2007 9:39:09 AM | I "think" the original american versions had 500k across the board.
Original pots are 250k. Some older '50s "Holy Grail" Teles even had 230k.
If you want a step up from CTS, go with Allan-Bradley, or Bournes pots.
Re-wire the middle selector lugs, and be "neat" with shielding, over doing it can add capacitance to the circuit. | |
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Posted: 3/6/2007 10:18:26 AM | Yo Late,
Thanks for the info. You're sure about the 250k pots being in tele customs? (WRHP in neck) I'll take your word for it though... I'll do some research into how to get some AB or bournes pots.
Cheers bro! | |
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Posted: 3/6/2007 10:59:29 AM | So I walk into a small guitar shop on Main the other day to pick myself up a cap for my bass...and I see a Garnet sittin' there....my eyes light up...but the sticker says $325....
...I asked the dude...says its just a SS...he had another one sittin there....tube...but not for sale....DAMN! ...gets talkin' about a Garnet bass head that a kid brought in for repair...apparently 6 power tubes....asked the kid if he wanted to sell it....but he knew his stuff....
....I guess chances are pretty rare to get my hands on one for a decent price....but that tease got me thinking about browsing the pawn shops.... | |
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Posted: 3/6/2007 11:37:27 AM | Yeah Man!
Those Garnets were awesome! I know somebody that has an old tube version. He'll never part with it either. Old Traynor's and Garnets are some of Canada's best examples of kickin' worldwide musical ass! Hope you find one for yourself!
Now if Diefenbaker would have just kept the Avro Arrow thing alive. We'd be kickin more than just musical ass lol.... let's just say NASA had a great startup with ALL of our aerospace engineers lol... Did you know they named a mountain in BC after that A - hole? They must've had to look long and hard to find a mountain with twin rounded peaks in the shape of a very large smalltown prairie lawyers ASS!
Sorry for the tangential Diefenbaker rant, but he f**ked our country out of being a world leader in aerospace on a personal vandetta.
Yorkville sound and Mr Garnet Gilles did a fine job!
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Posted: 3/8/2007 11:07:39 PM | Hey,
While I'm on I might as well do the gear list. Just finally built my pedal board, so I might as well do the brag thing.
Guitars:
97 Simon & Patrick pro flame maple
05 Art & Lutherie cedar 12
97 Fender telecaster custom 72 reissue w/ texas special bridge p/u
82 Ibanez artist AR105
04 PRS se soapbar singlecut
Project Strat....almost done!
Amps:
80's Roland cube 20
78 Traynor ts200 head(200w@4Ohms) w/ matching Behringer 4x12
68 Fender Super Reverb-Amp
Effects:
Boss tu2 tuner
Behringer Comp/Sust
Dunlop crybaby Wylde wah
Ibanez TS9 tube screamer
Boss mt2 metal zone
Boss ps5 super shifter
Boss ps2 super phaser
Rocktron hush
Ibanez dsc10 stereo chorus
Ibanez dl5 delay
EH holy grail reverb
Rock on! | |
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Posted: 3/8/2007 11:36:22 PM | zedcanuck
greetings....how is the EH holy grail reverb?
EBAY is a cool place to look at various traynor heads
-I have a traynor yba-1 (the original late 60's style-with the big tranny)
plexi mod........blusey,pretty cool amp,can sound like a dual rectifier with a big muff/grunge pedal infront of it
-traynor mark 3- 2X12 combo-el34(blusey twin sounding)
-traynor bass bloc40 (suprisingly loud for such a small amp) | |
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Posted: 3/9/2007 2:20:46 AM | Yo Guitarman,
Greetings
Those bassmasters are really nice. Used to have a really weathered one myself actually. Not sure exactly what year it was, although it had 2 inputs for channell I and II, and the knobs were aluminum w/ thin black plastic collars. It had the original ysc6x10 cab with it, and I ended up selling it to someone who did the plexi mod.
The grail is pretty sweet. On the spring mode it's very close to the reverb on the super. You have to give it a higher setting than that of the super to produce the same level of effect. I prefer a mild setting in hall mode on the traynor. The flerb mode is kind of neat and can produce some cool sounds, but it's a really great pedal. perfect solution to the reverb-less traynor.
I have to say lately I'm really liking this cheap-ass behringer compressor I bought. That on a pretty high setting coupled with the ts9 at about 3 with the prs se soapbar...killer!
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Posted: 3/10/2007 10:57:06 PM | My main electric was a left handed "Gold" Les PAul copy, bought in the early 1980's. At that time I was a regular reader of Guitar Player magazine, and especially enjoyed the "electronics" side of it.
Since my lil no name wonder was the perfect test bed, I went out and got some Seymour Dunkin PAF's, some copper shielding, better pots, and some switches to add a lot more options when playing. At that time, it wasn't that expensive to do.
With just a bit of work, you can add things like single coil/double coil , and phase and parallel switches. If you want to really fine tune it, getting an ohm meter and balancing out the coils to exactly the same impedence can make quite a difference to the sound.
Guitar Player Magazine used to have a ton of great simple ideas for easy alteration of your guitar in the good old days. They'd often include simple circuits, as well.
One of my favs was concerting a noisy wah pedal (like my Vox) to a completely silent version with an optical connection. When pressing down on the pedal , an LED would glow brighter.
Inside a sealed housing, that LED would trigger the needed voltage to make the rest of the process work. Really simple to do, and it worked perfectly. | |
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Posted: 3/10/2007 11:18:56 PM | Yes I just got one and the jimmy hendrix woodstock live concert video , im about to wreck shit
and i got a whammy bar and thumb pick.. its on!!
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Posted: 3/11/2007 6:32:32 AM | my 84 Strat is my favourite guitar. Also have a limitted 87 Guild acoustic and a 56 gold top Epi with P-90s
Just bought a Fender Supersonic amp...very versatile...real happy with it. Also have a Mesa F-100...it has great distortion but it's way too loud for the venues I play.
My favourite pedal is my BOSS digital delay...I used to have an old Memoryman but it got stolen...that thing wa sweet! | |
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Posted: 3/12/2007 11:32:47 AM | | My favorite guitar is my "Nashville B-Bender Tele", my favorite amp is my "Fender Blues Deville", and I tend to like my "Boss Compressor". I changed my pick-ups to Semour Duncans..."Alnico Pros". I`m told that I have a great tone!! | |
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Posted: 3/13/2007 10:17:44 PM | alright then...
I'll start with my bass
It's a black four-string Aria Pro II "the Cat Bass"...had it since '91...I think I'm gonna need a new one soon (5-string next time) 'cause there's a crack that goes through 3 of the four keys on the headstock...one more fall to the ground and I think she's done for...I call her Bessie. I recently bought a Peavy Combo 300 for it. I guess it spits pretty good...not sure when I'll blow that one up too. lol
Then I was working for a Tattoo artist, he owed me 90$...I confiscated his acoustic guitar...it's a Yamaha, left handed guitar modified for a right handed playa...kinda like Jimi Hendrix looking in a mirror...don't ask me why, it was already modified before I got it
I also have an Ibanez RG series electric guitar, it's teal in color...I think...kinda like a blueish-green...or a greenish-blue...whatever...lol
As for amplifiers...I blew them all up...lol
I had an Acoustic amplifier for my bass once...blew the...transistor on it...or transformer...I believe that's what it was...not sure...but I was told it couldn't be fixed.
For my guitar, I had a fender 85...loved the sound and it's natural distortion...my friend tried to fix it for me once...he forgot to unplug it before sticking a screwdriver in it...saw sparks coming out of it...fried the ...motherboard...I think it is...you know that thing that has all the electrical supplies on it...I swear, I'm not good at naming the parts or whatnot...I just play'em, (if I don't blow them up) that's all.
well, that's what's mine
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Posted: 3/13/2007 11:39:38 PM | I know you're all just dying to hear how my guitar-buying turned out.
Spent about four hours at Guitar Center, playing all sorts of instruments in my price range.
Ended up taking home a nice Epiphone Les Paul and a Fender Frontman amp.
I'm happy with 'em. | |
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Posted: 3/14/2007 6:33:46 AM | | cool, what model Les Paul you get, a standard or custom? What finish? I love my Epi. | |
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