preamp cables with FET

[freeztar]

I recently read an article (http://www.till.com/articles/PreampCable/) about a cable with a built in preamp. Does anyone know where to get one? It seems a little beyond my range of electronics knowledge to build one, but I would sure love to own one. Anybody want to build me one?
Keith

 

[mixsit]

Hey, that's a clever idea. I wonder if it might address the issue of an electric guitar's tone loosing high end when you back the volume down? As I understand it, as the pickup is turned down, it sees the impeadance load of the tone control that in turn kills some of the highs.
Wayne

 

[formerlyfzfile]

You can do that inside the guitar Mixsit.

I have this guitar mods book and shows what I believe, if memory serves, a Schecter design where you put a resister in parallel to the tone cap in the guitar wiring.

I forget wich value resistor they use but I used it on my guitar for a while.
The only thing about it was that my volume was no longer smooth ....it would increase only a little up to about 6 or 7 and then jump up to 8....so I removed it.

But I had heavily modified the guitar and was not positive that this was the sole contributor to this.......although it did go back to normal after I removed it.

I will check in my book when I get home from work as to what they used.

-mike

 

[JR#97]

Hey, that's a clever idea. I wonder if it might address the issue of an electric guitar's tone loosing high end when you back the volume down? As I understand it, as the pickup is turned down, it sees the impeadance load of the tone control that in turn kills some of the highs.
Wayne

I don't think it would solve that problem because the pre-amp is POST volume control and not PRE volume control.

Sounds like a great idea, but the more I thought about it, what would be the purpose? Why not use an active DI? Or external pre-amp? Those give you more control and less hassle than the cable would.

 

[barefoot]

It would help eliminate noise and radio frequency interference created by the cable. High impedance sources like guitars are more susceptible to cable noise than low impedance sources. Otherwise, I can't think of any other advantages.

It would probably cost at minimum of $100 for someone to build this for you. I really don't think it's worth it. But, if you must have it, I'll do it for $200.

Thomas

http://barefootsound.com