Mac-Forums' Bar & Grill II

[Tanner31593]

Yeah............

I've decided i'm NOT going to take your many hints about a blog.



Edit: I'm kidding.
I'm really not, I won't get a blog...but I guess I WILL shorten these a little bit.

 

[schweb]

Yeah............

I've decided i'm NOT going to take your many hints about a blog.



Edit: I'm kidding.
I'm really not, I won't get a blog...but I guess I WILL shorten these a little bit.

Good, to be honest Tanner, I think your current posting style is getting more than a bit disruptive to every else's conversation. Super long posts, huge caps, etc are just not the best thing for this format, especially given that they're interjected in between other people's conversations.

It's like going up to to a group of people in real life who are talking and then you start yelling and going on some super long story non-stop completely ignoring the fact they they also want to talk. That would be rude.

Just because it's written word doesn't mean etiquette doesn't apply here.

 

[Derek McNelly]

isnt it funny how you play better when you get a new guitar? i have definitely heard that same comment before.

if you aren't going to use the neck pick up why mess with it? have you checked ebay to see if someone is selling one on there?

Yeah, I checked ebay, and apparently no one knows anything about this guitar at all.

In any case, I decided to use my background in wiring crap up to make a schematic where the LEDs will still function, albeit all on (seeing as the green one never gets used because I <3 bridge pickups), and if I feel like playing some BROOTAL METAL RIFFZ I can switch to neck or both with a standard 3 way Les Paul style toggle switch.

I'm gonna wire it up and test it tomorrow after work when I'm not half asleep, and then I'll let you all know how it goes.

Hopefully my knowledge of these here guitarboxes and their electricalities will make this an easy jorb.

 

[todd51]

That's a sweeeeeet guitar dude. Wish I learned how to play one, but I guess it's never too late to start! Maybe once I get a career and some money.

Ugh..work again, followed by more work on the weekend. Will it ever end?

 

[Tanner31593]

Good, to be honest Tanner, I think your current posting style is getting more than a bit disruptive to every else's conversation. Super long posts, huge caps, etc are just not the best thing for this format, especially given that they're interjected in between other people's conversations.

It's like going up to to a group of people in real life who are talking and then you start yelling and going on some super long story non-stop completely ignoring the fact they they also want to talk. That would be rude.

Just because it's written word doesn't mean etiquette doesn't apply here.

I had no idea I was being so disruptive.
Sorry.

 

[sanity1082]

Yeah, I checked ebay, and apparently no one knows anything about this guitar at all.

In any case, I decided to use my background in wiring crap up to make a schematic where the LEDs will still function, albeit all on (seeing as the green one never gets used because I <3 bridge pickups), and if I feel like playing some BROOTAL METAL RIFFZ I can switch to neck or both with a standard 3 way Les Paul style toggle switch.

I'm gonna wire it up and test it tomorrow after work when I'm not half asleep, and then I'll let you all know how it goes.

Hopefully my knowledge of these here guitarboxes and their electricalities will make this an easy jorb.

on my strat i only use the neck pick up but not for BROOTAL METAL RIFFZ but for blues leads. i usually use the bridge pick up on my jag-stang for playing anything that gets heavy distortion. good luck fixing it up

 

[Derek McNelly]

on my strat i only use the neck pick up but not for BROOTAL METAL RIFFZ but for blues leads. i usually use the bridge pick up on my jag-stang for playing anything that gets heavy distortion. good luck fixing it up

Thanks.

I worked on it, and discovered, much to my dismay, EVERY SWITCH ON EARTH THAT IS NOT THE FRIGGIN' STOCK SWITCH ROBS THIS GUITAR OF IT'S BALLS.

Basically, I bought every 3 way toggle that I could get my hands on (I've returned all but one, which will go into my Les Paul, seeing as it's the same type of switch. I have bad luck with switches dying), and every one of them takes 60%+ of the output from the guitar and just drops it, so I have to have gain on full, even on the clean channel, just to hear the darn thing.

So, taking a cue from Eddie Van Halen, (whom I'm not a big fan of, for future reference), I wired both pickups directly to the volume knob with a BFB (big friggin' bead) of solder.

Now, it sounds raunchier than ever, and the only compromise I need to make is lightening up the bass and mids on my clean channel. Other than that, it's working great, and the LEDs are finally lighting up, so there's a blue and a red LED just shining away any time I plug a cable in. Supposedly there's a green LED in there, but according to the schematic from Yamaha, there isn't.

Now, I have a regular toggle switch in the switch slot that's just there for looks. I really don't switch pickups very often at all, and when I do, it's on my Strat when I'm playing bluesy stuff.

I'm debating disconnecting the neck pickup, but I'm content as is.

It still sounds great, and it looks great too.

 

[sanity1082]

you have to post shot when it is dark and the leds are a lit up

 

[Mac'nCheese]

Hey Derek, I'm a fellow player and forum newbie. I belong to a bunch of guitar forums and have built some of my own FrankenStrats and whatnot. So, what's the model #? I'll see if I can score some parts.

 

[hughvane]

Just because it's written word doesn't mean etiquette doesn't apply here.

Don't wish to appear picky Schweb, but would you care to check the spelling of 'etiquette'? It appears as 'Ettiquette' in Forum Rules.
Cheers ...

 

[Stretch]

I'm back. Spent the week in Acadia National Park. Hiked probably 10 miles a day. Climbed at least 4 mountains a day while we were there, and took over 2000 photos.

 

[dtravis7]

I'm back. Spent the week in Acadia National Park. Hiked probably 10 miles a day. Climbed at least 4 mountains a day while we were there, and took over 2000 photos.

Wow, sounds like you had a great time. Let us know when you put the pics up on your site!!

 

[Derek McNelly]

Hey Derek, I'm a fellow player and forum newbie. I belong to a bunch of guitar forums and have built some of my own FrankenStrats and whatnot. So, what's the model #? I'll see if I can score some parts.

It's a Yamaha RGX A2. I had to drill out the plastic lens around the switch as well, so if you can get your hands on the switch and the lens, I'll FedEx overnight you my first born.

And sanity, I'll get you a good shot tonight.

*edit*

We had a little basement show last night before I had this bugger fixed, and the LEDs were working, and people couldn't stop asking me about the guitar.

I'm currently considering just unhooking the neck pickup. It's just now starting to adversely effect my tone. If you're looking for an example of the tone I generally have, look up the Black Flag track "White Minority" off the Jealous Again EP. 90% of the time I go for that kind of sound, only a smidgen brighter.

All and all, that bridge pickup is my best friend, because I like obnoxiously bright, biting tone, which is why I generally favor single coils, but the humbuckers on this guitar are closer to P-90s than Gibson PAFs or EMG 81/85s, so I'm a sucker for 'em. They don't feed back like my Strat's single coils do, but they aren't as muddy as my PAFs are in my Les Paul.

(For purposes of this conversation, I generally consider any humbuckers that aren't Seymour Duncan Invaders/Dimebuckers or EMG 81/85s to be PAFs.)

This guitar is genuinely my number one instrument right now. I love playing this thing, it sounds amazing, and it's just so striking. People very rarely see the black one, because apparently, the white one was waaaaaay more popular, which, for fingerprint reasons makes sense, but I'm really loving the black.

 

[Stretch]

I put a few of the photos from my trip up on my site. enjoy

 

[Fidou]

the pics looks very nice stretch
I'm sure you enjoyed the trip

 

[Stretch]

Thanks Fidou. I sure did enjoy it, a little sore now though.

 

[sanity1082]

the led looks good.

i agree the single coils do create quite the buzz when distored. what amp set up are you using.

back when i first started playing i use to only use the bridge humbucker, distored, and loud. (i started playing metal) as time went on i switched to blues and a little jazz. that is when i bought my strat. it is a customized american strat with the tbx mid boost controls)

the two coolest guitars i ever got to play both belonged to my old guitar instructor. he has an original 57 strat as well as an orginal 65 gibson gold top. both of them sounded amazing

 

[Derek McNelly]

what amp set up are you using.

I'm running a Crate RFX120 120 Watt 2x12 (might be 2x10), with the built in distortion/metal channels and a channel switching stompbox.

Pretty basic setup, but for the kind of music I play, I don't need a complex rig.

back when i first started playing i use to only use the bridge humbucker, distored, and loud. (i started playing metal) as time went on i switched to blues and a little jazz. that is when i bought my strat. it is a customized american strat with the tbx mid boost controls)

I've been playing punk guitar for 5 years now, and that's really where my heart's at musically. I started off on an Epiphone Les Paul (where my hatred of Pauls developed) and I played that for about four years, then bought a Squier Stratocaster last December, realized that it was great when I was playing clean, but distortion was just too much feedback, and then Wednesday I picked up the Yamaha, which does both really well (I still need to disconnect the neck pickup).

I tried doing the whole Led Zeppelin/Metallica thing, and it really just wasn't me, and I tried blues, and while I love listening to the blues, it's just not what I feel when I pick up a guitar.

the two coolest guitars i ever got to play both belonged to my old guitar instructor. he has an original 57 strat as well as an orginal 65 gibson gold top. both of them sounded amazing

My friend's dad had a '54 Strat, which is probably one of the coolest guitars I've ever played, but my favorite guitar I've ever played is probably the J. Mascis Jazzmaster.

Jazzmasters are my number two favorites, right after Moserites.

 

[Satansmunchkin]

I'm running a Crate RFX120 120 Watt 2x12 (might be 2x10), with the built in distortion/metal channels and a channel switching stompbox.

Pretty basic setup, but for the kind of music I play, I don't need a complex rig.



I've been playing punk guitar for 5 years now, and that's really where my heart's at musically. I started off on an Epiphone Les Paul (where my hatred of Pauls developed) and I played that for about four years, then bought a Squier Stratocaster last December, realized that it was great when I was playing clean, but distortion was just too much feedback, and then Wednesday I picked up the Yamaha, which does both really well (I still need to disconnect the neck pickup).

I tried doing the whole Led Zeppelin/Metallica thing, and it really just wasn't me, and I tried blues, and while I love listening to the blues, it's just not what I feel when I pick up a guitar.



My friend's dad had a '54 Strat, which is probably one of the coolest guitars I've ever played, but my favorite guitar I've ever played is probably the J. Mascis Jazzmaster.

Jazzmasters are my number two favorites, right after Moserites.

I currently play a Les Paul Studio through a 50 watt vox valvetronix. I'm into some metal or as my girlfriend calls it noise pollution

This will be my twelth year playing this year.

 

[thedood]

I'm back. Spent the week in Acadia National Park. Hiked probably 10 miles a day. Climbed at least 4 mountains a day while we were there, and took over 2000 photos.

Looks awesome. I'd like to do Acadia someday.

Btw; Have a great birthday today!