nopainkiller
Thunderkicks McStrum'em
https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?p=2964688&posted=1#post2964688
Had to make a new thread for this guitar, since the questions and the guitar are completely different now.
As of now, I have the neck wired for parallel and series, and the bridge for coil cut. Then after the 3 way, a master bass cut, then master mid scoop, then master tone. I'm waiting on coaxial wire to finalize everything, I'm also adding a distortion switch that will do what the black ice did, and turning the main tone pot into a push/pull for neck phase switch.
There is also an amp in my guitar now. I thought I'd biuld a little tiny amp to put into the hollow body so I could play anywhere. I wanted to biult the simplest one that I could find so it would take up little space, but wanted a good sound, and settled on a design I found at runoffgroove.com. It uses a LM386 IC and it;s a lot of fun to play. It took a bit to find the sweet spot where to stick it in the body, i settled on the top of the sound hole, 1/3 showing. I get amazing sutain and crunch without being plugged in. But I have a big problem with battery drain. The batteries seem to run out incredibly fast. It might be that I wired the amp for alot more bass for sustain, or something stupid I did wrong. Maybe the way I have it grounded. The amp circuit is grounded to the bridge, along with the battery, I dunno if this is ok or not. I dunno bout amps inside guitars!
It might be my imagination, but there seems to be signal loss. I think I should wire the on switch to connect the input when it turns on. I just got it in there so good, and tight, it's gunna suck to redo it. Especially to resolder the pc board! But is there a way to have it wired, so when I have it plugged in, and have the amp on at the same time without signal loss?? Am I even really lossing any signal??
Here is the schematic/diagram. It's really crude I just drew it up in paint. Then some pictures.
When drawing this, I forgot to put in the treble bleed mods on the volume pots.
Had to make a new thread for this guitar, since the questions and the guitar are completely different now.
As of now, I have the neck wired for parallel and series, and the bridge for coil cut. Then after the 3 way, a master bass cut, then master mid scoop, then master tone. I'm waiting on coaxial wire to finalize everything, I'm also adding a distortion switch that will do what the black ice did, and turning the main tone pot into a push/pull for neck phase switch.
There is also an amp in my guitar now. I thought I'd biuld a little tiny amp to put into the hollow body so I could play anywhere. I wanted to biult the simplest one that I could find so it would take up little space, but wanted a good sound, and settled on a design I found at runoffgroove.com. It uses a LM386 IC and it;s a lot of fun to play. It took a bit to find the sweet spot where to stick it in the body, i settled on the top of the sound hole, 1/3 showing. I get amazing sutain and crunch without being plugged in. But I have a big problem with battery drain. The batteries seem to run out incredibly fast. It might be that I wired the amp for alot more bass for sustain, or something stupid I did wrong. Maybe the way I have it grounded. The amp circuit is grounded to the bridge, along with the battery, I dunno if this is ok or not. I dunno bout amps inside guitars!
It might be my imagination, but there seems to be signal loss. I think I should wire the on switch to connect the input when it turns on. I just got it in there so good, and tight, it's gunna suck to redo it. Especially to resolder the pc board! But is there a way to have it wired, so when I have it plugged in, and have the amp on at the same time without signal loss?? Am I even really lossing any signal??
Here is the schematic/diagram. It's really crude I just drew it up in paint. Then some pictures.
When drawing this, I forgot to put in the treble bleed mods on the volume pots.
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