Classic, the switch idea is good I always thought about it. Ymir your not putting a new guard in, might put another switch in with a cap or something on it to give you a tonal shift if you so need it.
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Episode 88: S/D thread - No Hope
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That is a good idea too.
I was also kicking around drilling a jack plate on the side, and running a volume/tone/switch on the pick guard. I would need to clean up the volume and tone pots though, because they are very scratchy.
Yup, you can sometimes score them for around 30$ in the classified. It's a cheap (money wise) pickup to begin with. It's a great p pup.
Good to know!
Not sure my old squire is worthy of a Geezer signature pick up.
I've tried a ton of p pick ups. Most of the heavy hitters on this forum. Love the PAF's I've had. Even scored a set of PAF jazz pups for my pink bass. They rule.
Man, slow day at work.
I think I figured out the last piece of wiring that needs to be done to the Bad Stone. Couldn't figure out how to connect the Rate pot to the board, finally found some photos at the EHX forums that show where the leads go.
Just need to do that and rewire the two battery clips (there's only one on there now and it's wired up wrong) and I'll be able to fire it up and see if it works.
Someone at some point tried to fix this thing, but it must have been before the internet era because there's some major **** wrong. Luckily I was able to find some good guts shots and I can pretty easily change the wiring back to what it was.
I've never done a two-battery 18V pedal before, and the wiring is complicated by the fact there's an on/off switch as well as the footswitch. It would be easy to mess it up if I didn't know what I was doing or didn't have the online resources.
I think I figured out the last piece of wiring that needs to be done to the Bad Stone. Couldn't figure out how to connect the Rate pot to the board, finally found some photos at the EHX forums that show where the leads go.
Just need to do that and rewire the two battery clips (there's only one on there now and it's wired up wrong) and I'll be able to fire it up and see if it works.
Someone at some point tried to fix this thing, but it must have been before the internet era because there's some major **** wrong. Luckily I was able to find some good guts shots and I can pretty easily change the wiring back to what it was.
I've never done a two-battery 18V pedal before, and the wiring is complicated by the fact there's an on/off switch as well as the footswitch. It would be easy to mess it up if I didn't know what I was doing or didn't have the online resources.
if you wanna play out that badly just find a band and join, even if it isnt the best situation, youll still be out there playing, you might meet some better options along the way, and playing out is always fun anyways haha.
I did exactly this on my Ray35. I couldnt find any sounds I liked on that bass with the 3 band EQ, and found myself constantly battling to get the EQ set to make my dirt pedals happy. Ended up running the pickup straight to jack with an on/off switch, control tones purely through pedals.
It works great for my purposes, as I can dial in more high-end grit via pedals or amp. It still sounds like a Stingray at heart but can't do sparkly slap tones or scooped death metal anymore, but I didnt really want it to do that anyway. The lower smoother overall output really jives well with my pedals and rig.
I use the volume and tone knobs alot on my Ric though.
Yeah, I'm getting to that point where I just want to join something just to play out and jam on a regular basis. I might just do something on the non heavy side that's fun, just to scratch that itch. One of my recording projects has had gig offers...but the logistics would be a whole other thing, as there's no live drummer and we've never practiced the songs lol. Only played them when recording.
yeah, time to find a band that plays a lot. it seems like you get involved with people that barely have enough time to practice let alone play out.
and what did skip get?
I realize other people have a very different idea of what "a little free time" means. I have enough time to practice once a week and gig once a month, no problem. A lot of people seem to think that translates more to practice once a month and gig once twice a year at most.
Something with a lot of big glass tubes in it, that will make everyone drool.
