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12-20-2005, 08:10 PM
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Aight, this is going to be stupid...but since my Agile has 4 knobs, I may have some fun with it, who knows:
I want to install a distortion into my guitar.
I mean, it wouldn't be pretty, and I'd have to figure out how to control it, but figure the LP copy has what...4 knobs....and the switch....
Alrite, now this is starting to sound stupid. Anybody ever try sometin like this? |
12-20-2005, 08:30 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: NYC/LI | | | If you go over to stuartmac.com they have a pot that u replace your tone knob with. It's an internal gain switch or something like that.
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12-20-2005, 09:07 PM
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27 bucks...Might as well go for the Boss DS-1 then.
Gotta love bein cheap. |
12-20-2005, 09:20 PM
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12-20-2005, 10:23 PM
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12-21-2005, 03:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: St. Louis, MO, U.S. | | | The Black Ice from Stewart Macdonald is pretty cool, but it's not really a heavy distortion. It just adds some crunch. It might sound cool in a bass, but I only have one in my guitar.
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12-21-2005, 06:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: perth, western australia | | | im pretty sure that there are "distortion pickups" around for guitars.
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12-21-2005, 06:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Nashville TN | | "Distortion pickups" such as the Dimarzio Super Distortion, are just pickups with a higher output signal.
There are some very simple fuzz and distortion circuits you could stick in your guitar however. Try www.runoffgroove.com for some great JFET designs, or some of the effects on www.diystompboxes.com
The "classic" fuzz is the Dallas Arbiter Fuzzface, which has a number of clones. It's all of two transistors and a few resistors and caps, easy to breadboard (just make the silicon NPN version, forget the obsolete germanium transistors). |
12-21-2005, 07:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Bristol, UK | | | Matt Bellamy from muse has numerous effects built into his guitars, such as a Zvex fuzz factory if i recall correctly...
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12-21-2005, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by chips im pretty sure that there are "distortion pickups" around for guitars. | True dat, and this thread just made me think of a line of guitars that was out in the 70's the MPC Electra's (anyone remember those?) that had a system of interchangable effects modules you'd put in the guitar's control cavity, the used to make various copies (mainly Gibson style) and a couple designs of their own. 
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12-21-2005, 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Dkerwood Steal the processor out of this . | 
This must be the some of the ugliest instruments I have ever seen.
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