Mar 28, 2024
The Telecaster. What some would call simple perfection or a blue
collar working man’s guitar is a 74 year old design. While there
have been many other iterations of it, the original standard modal
has had very few changes to the design by the original company who
launched it, Fender. As great as the guitar is, there are 3 major
design flaws that really effect it’s playing ability and should
have been modified on standards off the factory line many years ago. As much as I would
like to blame “boomers” or the stubborn allergenic-to-change
guitar community, truth is, most of us just........
Dec 12, 2022
After fixing this phase 90, yet again. I realized that all the chips
are the same in all of them. Just a different box on the outside.
Check out the script switch and the Eddie Van Halen print on the board.
Ah the downtrodden Boss CH-1. It was a exciting pre-show purchase for
me a 20 something circa winter 2003. Having grown up on a healthy dose
of lush chorus from Nirvana to The Police, I was looking to recreate
those tones. I'm sure my heart was set on a Electro Harmonix Small
Clone or Poly Chorus, but the lowly Guitar Center at the time only had
the Boss. It did the job, but as time went on (17 years now), as I read
the bashing of it ........
Aug 18, 2021
So..... you knocked the knob off your Digitech Whammy? When I did, I
thought it would be a cheap fix with a some sort of simple
potentiometer. While the fix itself was easy, it was not super cheap.
All and all it set me back at least $20 just for a little knob I
probably kicked off during a show........
So with the prospects of once again being a supporting guitarist for
Don Matsuo this July, I found myself pondering the volume pedal mod I
did years ago
where I physically stopped the minimum volume the pedal had to control
the gain on my amp. I don't know what to expect with this gig, despite
this being my second go around. Would I need a gain control, or a
volume pedal?.......
Best Volume Pedal Mods and Hacks
Dec 17, 2019
I know, volume pedals. Boring right? I used to only use them with lap
steel or volume swells when I was younger. And most my volume swells
could have been done with the volume control on my guitar. So I never
pulled the pedal out much for a long period of time. I think a lot of
people are the same way, That was until I started playing more dynamic
music.......
The Treble Booster, Secret Weapon of the 70's. Now in Standard Power
Jan 7, 2019
Happy new year and rotation around the nuclear fusion reactor
everyone. Let's talk treble boosters. For years I didn't understand
them and just passed them off as an oddity of the past. Most of us
guitarist don't need more treble. In fact some guys I've heard are ear
piercing. I used to think you'd get the same thing from and EQ pedal. I
couldn't have been more wrong. What I found was using a treble booster
helped cut through a band mix and they're great for solos. It does
this by cutting some of the bass frequencies that get covered up by the
bass guitar..... Ring Modulator
Nov 1, 2018
Homemade Lap Steel
Apr 25, 2017
About ten years ago, I played a show with my old cheap lap steel an hour
south from Portland, in Salem, Oregon. After finishing the show,
packing up and hitting the road back home, my car's lights started to
dim. Next thing I know the engine stops and I'm coasting off the
highway up an off-ramp just outside of Portland. Dead alternator...
Cheap Truss Rod Swap!
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Aug 27, 2016
So by no means am I a luthier. I don't recommend this procedure for
every guitar. I had a cheap bass that was unplayable and ready to be
turned into firewood. If you have a guitar that's not worth the cost of
fixing, this could be an option, only if you're willing to part with
the guitar if something goes wrong.etc...
Jun 19, 2016Make Your Strings Bend Easier!
Feb 21, 2016
Have you ever had a
guitar which seems like your fighting or wrestling with while
playing? The strings are hard to bend and maybe you even play it
with a heavier hand than other guitars. Most guitars take some
adjustment to get them to your own personal tastes; string height,
neck relief, etc...
Aug 19, 2015
If you're like me, you've been through a few rigs or you've at least
re-designed it more than a few times. I big part of music I love, is
the use of dynamics. Soft to loud, loud to soft. It's a big part of
the emotional part of music. I often have done what many people do in
modern times ...
New DIY Pedals
Zvex Fuzz Factory / Fuzz Probe Settings
The Cheap Route to Amplifying your Acoustic Instrument
Danelectro Chicken Salad Mod
How to turn a cheap Vibrato pedal into a Uni-Vibe (rotary speaker simulator)
DOD FX90 Analog Delay
A review of a cheap Analog Delay.
Russian Big Muff PI Mods
A few mods for different gain flavors, bypass switching, and upgrades.
The Sitar-Caster
Jan 26, 2015
For the years I've been around heavy music and the metal scene back in
Portland, one thing rules above all. Heavy riff-age. Down tuning has
become more and more common in the heavy music. Hell, Drop D is the
basically the common vernacular of metal music. ...
New DIY Pedals
Jan 5, 2015
What a busy vacation. I spent a good part of it finishing some pedals
I've been experimenting with over the last few months. All three of
these are simple designs by the DIY guru, Tim Escobedo. ...
Friday, August 15, 2014
Mar 29, 2014
However,
I don't have the heart to drill a new hole into my vintage acoustic
guitars. Strap-Pin-Jack-Plugs are a easy and great way to have a jack
without defacing your guitar with a new hole. You will need to remove
the strap ...
Jun 23, 2013
A
cheap guitar company named Rogue was putting out a reasonably priced
sitar, but it was still money for something I could only use sparingly
at times and it still wasn't a real sitar. I thought there had to be an
easier cheaper ...
Jul 12, 2012
I
recently bought this late 70's Yamaha 12 string acoustic for about $70,
which was a steal. I think the shop I bought it at didn't realize the
quality of the guitar because it did look as if it had been neglected
for years and the ...
How to turn a cheap Vibrato pedal into a Uni-Vibe (rotary speaker simulator)
A review of a cheap Analog Delay.
A few mods for different gain flavors, bypass switching, and upgrades.
Sep 29, 2010
So
I wanted an electric guitar sitar, but didn't have a ton of money to
buy one, and I didn't want to hack apart a usable guitar. I did however
have a lot of wood laying around. So with a little filing and
adjustments, I made my own ...
Sep 14, 2010
It
was only a matter of time before I grew some sort of sick fetish
towards pushing a guitar not normally accustomed to heavy music, into
something people eventually gave me weird looks for. The thing about
these guitars is ...
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