Special Edition Build off - Walter Ripper

[funkinbottom]

I like the diamond lay out a lot. Another option is in a line, but not a straight line. More like Music Man bass, in a line that follows the radius of the body.

 

[Scoops]

Diamond it is!

I have a Les Paul. I'll see if I can replicate the dimensions.

Also, after I thought about it for a while, yes, I could just flip the circuit

@ctmullins, yes, the knobs are pretty slick. The didn't come with the preamp. I had to dig for them. They aren't easy to find.

 

[ctmullins]

the knobs are pretty slick. The didn't come with the preamp. I had to dig for them. They aren't easy to find.

Actually they're pretty easy to find, just not cheap: Stack Knobs - ALL PRODUCTS

 

[Scoops]

I like the diamond lay out a lot. Another option is in a line, but not a straight line. More like Music Man bass, in a line that follows the radius of the body.

I had thought about that, but I can't.

This preamp is an after thought.

I was originally going with just the Big singles in a V/V/T config.
Once I routed out the body I thought, it's just a tad too heavy, so I decided to route out a control cavity to loose weight, and now that I have the space, use the pre.

My routing templates used one of the pot locations of a V/V/T for a tooling hole. I have knobs covering up the hole. it's the highest one in the diamond pattern

 

[Scoops]

I have some gold hardware I wanted to use.

Good thing Mr East is out of stock

 

[Scoops]

Holes drilled, PCB's mounted.
This is function before form. I got it in, it's wired. I'm happy
Sometimes I would focus on getting the PCB's to all point in the same direction. Not going to do that here.

Next question. Top jack or side jack

 

[ctmullins]

Side jack. Always.

 

[Dark Horse]

What ct said ^^^

 

[Scoops]

Side jack. Always.

What ct said ^^^

Side jack it is

 

[ctmullins]

Ask me another one!!!

 

[Scoops]

Ask me another one!!!

When a train traveling at the speed of light crosses a galactic boundary, how far can Mothman fly when the sheep are grazing?

 

[ctmullins]

Errrrmmmm - rainbows?

 

[Scoops]

I can't believe it

You won the internet!

Congratulations

 

[ctmullins]

Mom always said if I kept studying, and working real hard, and eating all my veggies, that I could amount to something one day....

Turns out that just two out of three will do the trick!

 

[Dark Horse]

This thing and Rip Limba are honestly making me want to build a ripper. I put it in my future build list.

That is honestly the biggest compliment I can give you, it took something that I would never really think about doing, and made me want to build it. Amazing.

 

[NKBassman]

Following.

 

[Skelf]

You're right; the documentation is a bit unclear, isn't it?

I pulled out my EQ-01 (which has never been installed) to check:

• The two low-pass filter boards look identical, and are slightly shorter than
• The main board, which has all of the connections on it
• The fourth stacked pot doesn't have any circuitry mounted on it at all, so its four-conductor ribbon cable plugs into the main board
• Right next to the spot where the four-conductor ribbon cable connects is a trim pot; this is labelled "Treble feed blend control". This leads me to assume that the main board is Volume/blend, and the smallest unit is the Treble filter control.

Edit: This theory is further supported by the fact that pot body on the main board is taller than the pot body on the smallest unit; a volume/blend control requires three layers, and therefore a taller pot body.

Worst case we have it backwards, in which case you can swap their positions, yes?

Page 5 of the instructions has a picture of the main board showing the connections and a picture of the filter board.

http://www.acguitars.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ACG_EQ01.pdf

 

[ctmullins]

Page 5 of the instructions has a picture of the main board showing the connections and a picture of the filter board.

http://www.acguitars.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ACG_EQ01.pdf

Thanks for chiming in @Skelf! Your PDF matches my printed copy of the instructions, and my uncertainty stems from the fact that the rightmost ribbon cable isn't labelled at all in that photo.

Were my assumptions correct?

 

[Skelf]

Thanks for chiming in @Skelf! Your PDF matches my printed copy of the instructions, and my uncertainty stems from the fact that the rightmost ribbon cable isn't labelled at all in that photo.

Were my assumptions correct?

Hi
My thinking was that with both filter board connections being labelled the other connection could only be for the treble.

 

[ctmullins]

Gotcha. Thank you for confirming!