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Monday, October 28, 2013
Avoiding a Tone Control Circuit for a More Natural Tone
In this schematic you can see, apart from standard elements, a DPDT on-on switch, wich can be an external element or a part of a push-pull potentiometer. Its used to switch off the capacitor and tone potentiometer together with their grounding. In effect of thi operation, the sound will be more natural (no impact from the tone cap. and the tone pot.).
It can be done in all types of wiring (3x single coil pickup, 2x humbucker; two pots, four pots etc.)
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Wiring Diagram for Stratocaster With a Warm Bright Warm Switch
Here comes the idea for a Stratocaster guitar wiring.
The biggest difference between my and the original Stratocaster wiring is in control over a tone warmth. My idea gives more options in this topic. The cost is in the one tone potentiometer, which was swapped for the 3-way, on-off-on DPDT switch.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Low Output Pickups for Heavy Music
Many metal and hard rock guitarist are using electric guitars with some high-output humbuckers. However, we shouldn't forget also about those guitar players, who are using some low-output pickups, even single-coils, to get heavy tones.
Do you know Yngwie Malmsteen, Brian May or Paul Gilbert? They've got quite „weak” p-ups in their gear collections.
As examples, here are some cool videos:
Paul Gilbert with his Ibanez Fireman guitar
Yngwie Malmsteen - Seventh Sign
Brian May Band - Love Token
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Wiring for P90 Pickups Soapbars Dog Ears
This guitar wiring is designed for use with P90 and similar, hot output single coil pickups. To my taste, it's especially good for crunch and hi-gain drive tones.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Doctor Talk for Musicians
Music has its own terms, just like doctor talk.
There are several musical terms that sound very complicated, but in fact are easy to understand. Todays post will address a couple of those, because you will probably hear or read about them at some point. This should clear up the confusion. So here are two of my favorites:
There are several musical terms that sound very complicated, but in fact are easy to understand. Todays post will address a couple of those, because you will probably hear or read about them at some point. This should clear up the confusion. So here are two of my favorites:
- MODULATION: Changing keys during the song, usually moving up or down by a half-step or a whole step. On the guitar a half-step is one fret and a whole step is two.
- ENHARMONIC OR ENHARMONIC EQUIVALENTS: Two notes, chords or scales have different names but sound the same. For example, F sharp and G flat. The reason we need enharmonic equivalents? It all has to work out on paper.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Quite Simple Active Guitar Wiring for Clean Signal Transport
Today I would like to present another guitar wiring diagram with the buffer, that I wrote about in some previous post.
It's very simple. The wiring is based on one potentiometer, one tone switch with two capacitors and the buffer. It's designed for those of you, who are looking for clean, linear guitar signal transport, with no uncontrolled affects from parts of the wiring. It will not give you a lot of on-board tone shaping functions, but will be perfect if you prefer to use pedals and amps equalizers for that purposes, or if you just wan't to hear more from the wood, strings and pickups, without big impact from potentionmeters and capacitors.
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