The Jam Room Blog Thread.

[renfield]

Working on a new pedalboard. Pics in a couple weeks. Just wanted to plant the seeds of anticipation.

[Danny G]

Done! It works!

Will still be a few days before I can truly field test it on my stage rig but sounds great thusfar. The word that comes to mind is CLARITY.

May talk to Emerson about an endorsement deal as I have two other guitars I'd like to rewire, but both of those would have to be custom deals:

Paul Stanley Iceman is 2 Vol/1 Tone, but I have it wired such that the tone control only affects the neck pickup. I'll also need a treble bleed on neck vol control.

79 Iceman has standard 2 Vol/2 Tone, but with the added coil tap switches I have the neck switch take the tone cap in/out of circuit, so I can dial in a "woman tone" but go back and forth with flick of a switch.

With it I could easily upgrade to push/pull tone pots, but the holes for the switches will still be there in the body. And by now I like the switches.

Their stuff just looks nicer than mine haha. I could buy the parts and do it myself, but if I talk to them maybe they'll give me a discount \m/,


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[Danny G]

Well shit. Most of the individual parts on Sweetwater are sold out (need short/split shaft for Icemen).

Guess I will have to talk to Emerson anyway, as even if I ordered through them they aren't showing short/split shaft 500k in their inventory :/

And looking at wiring for both Icemen, I'd rather not get a prewired harness for a diff guitar and have to bend and contort it to fit.


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[RAGER]

Came across this if interested.

https://theartoftone.com/taot-wiring-kit-gibson-les-paul-short-shaft-cts-taot-450s-525k-pots-orange-drop-caps-500k/

[neighbor664]

Nice job, Danny!

So far so good on the Strat.

[Danny G]

Catching up on more much-delayed projects:

Pedalboard for a bandmate



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[Danny G]

Also, FINALLY completed these two commissioned builds last week:

Big Muff Pi clone with Ge/Si clipper switch




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[Danny G]

Op Amp Big Muff clone with mid boost switch. The color scheme was specifically requested




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[renfield]

Okay question for you DIY savants.

For this pedalboard, I'm integrating the power and instrument cable jacks into the board along these lines:



It will have one instrument cable input on right side, and two outputs on the left.

I had the idea that I could dismember my ABY pedal and integrate it into the pedalboard itself. Is that plausible? James1214 tells me I'll have shielding/noise issues. Basically I want to go from this:



to something like this:



(^ this is a highly precise engineering schematic of the pedalboard, viewed from above)

What do you think, doable?

[Danny G]

Should be totally doable, and James1214 has a good point re: shielding/noise.

It's boggling my brain the more I think about how to do it tho, but making the board itself into an ABY is fucking genius.


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[neighbor664]

I think she's going to be okay.



Being able to have this much float and still be dead stable is a challenge even without damage or repairs.

[RAGER]

Okay question for you DIY savants.

For this pedalboard, I'm integrating the power and instrument cable jacks into the board along these lines:



It will have one instrument cable input on right side, and two outputs on the left.

I had the idea that I could dismember my ABY pedal and integrate it into the pedalboard itself. Is that plausible? James1214 tells me I'll have shielding/noise issues. Basically I want to go from this:



to something like this:



(^ this is a highly precise engineering schematic of the pedalboard, viewed from above)

What do you think, doable?

Are you trying to delete that Radial Bigshot or incorporate it?  If you're deleting it then you'll have ground hum probably. What exactly are you trying to accomplish? 

[mortlock]

I think she's going to be okay.



Being able to have this much float and still be dead stable is a challenge even without damage or repairs.

good to hear. sweet guitar.

[RAGER]

Eh. Fenders bounce. Gibson's break. Unfortunately I like Gibsons. But have bolt-ons too. I'd rather drop one of those.

[mortlock]

my fender jazz can take some abuse. i look at it like a muscle car. like a chevy, theres tons of hotrod parts and original parts always available. 

[neighbor664]

I think that's why this damage was so unexpected. after 29 years of abuse I'd come to take it for grated that it was near indestructible. I have another Strat(Squire) that had been thrown by it's original owner from a 3rd floor balcony at his wife's moving car down below. It suffered little more than a bent tuner.

[RAGER]

That fuckn bitch!!

[mortlock]

it had to be pretty bad, whatever it was that she did.

[neighbor664]

I think she had the audacity to go buy groceries instead of take him to score junk.

[mortlock]

the nerve of some people.

[renfield]

Are you trying to delete that Radial Bigshot or incorporate it?  If you're deleting it then you'll have ground hum probably. What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

I'm not sure I grasp exactly what you're asking but I think the answer is "incorporate" rather than delete. Since the instrument input and outputs are integrated into the board, it makes intuitive sense to me to integrate the ABY switching as well. It'll look rad and will free up hella real estate on the board.

Basically my idea is to open up the ABY, and see if I can detach the LEDs and switches and run longer wires from the pedal's enclosure to the lights and switches, which I'll embed in the board itself. Affix the pedal enclosure to the bottom of the board, and tape over the gaps and exposed wiring with faraday tape or something.

[RAGER]

"and will free up hella real estate on the board."

Ok.  This is the answer.

[everdrone]

pulled the trigger on a two notes captor X so I could use my ORANGE THUNDERVERB tube amp and fuzz pedals
DEMO OFIT:

[Danny G]

LP Studio is fully rewired and fully functional.

Passed initial tests on stage rig, tho the tone pots seem a little microphonic and pick up lots of jostling noise.

New bridge pickup (Rio Grande BBQ) didn't seem as "hot" as it should be but have since raised it.

Re: the extra tone pot noise, I did completely gut the thing and even removed the metal plate the previous pots mounted to. Not sure if that has anything to do with anything. The only thing I didn't change out electronics-wise was the neck pickup (57 Classic).




Ordered parts to rewire the Paul Stanley Iceman next. Two separate orders from Emerson and StewMac to find everything (weird parts shortages)


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[Roodbaerd]

My band King Drive finally got to do (sort of) a gig again. The spotlight is in Dutch and I hope the actual gig is released soon.

It was part of a local competition so we could use some votes.