Saturday, September 10, 2011
Epiphone SG - Modifications complete. (For Now!)
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Rocky Dee |
The upgrade kit I ordered came from Stewart McDonald in Ohio. Took about 3 weeks to arrive at my local post office here in South Africa and was worth every minute of the wait. I installed the Golden Age Pickups. Re-wired the entire guitar using high quality cables, posts, sockets and switches. This upgrade alone resulted in a massive improvement in tone. It was mammoth! Really! The guitar has character now. It sings and jives. It used to just kind of plod along and horrible cut through that really didn't sound good. It used to sound like an old fella with a cold trying to get up the stairs. Now it sounds more like a hot blond in a Ferrari on a summer afternoon driving to Vegas! I cant believe how much of an upgrade this has been. I actually want to record with this guitar now, because nothing else I have sounds quite like it. And the pickups look pretty sick too! It doesn't look like a "standard" guitar anymore.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
D.I.Y guitar pedals - They actually work really well!
Wow! I went on a mission the other day and decided to make me some guitar pedals. It cant be that difficult. I was pleasantly surprised that is was a lot easier than I thought it would be. My first project was a simple "Muff" styled transistor based fuzz pedal. Built around two 2N5088 transistors for a nice high gain but vintage type of tone. What really blows me away is how it cleans up after the volume is dropped on your guitar. And riding the volume down to 4 or 5 gives you a nice clean boost with a slight touch of hi-freq crunch. It sounds really nice. In fact I hate my DS-1 even more now.
Above is an image of the finished "Prototype". Its living in a pretty "South African Defense Force" or "unpainted Army" looking housing at the moment and would probably withstand a direct nuclear attack in that case. But it looks like shit. Oh, and I diddnt buy any knobs because the SADF use ones that don't fit on the pots I already had in my box. So it's kinda like a generic pedal / tank. I intend on ordering some Hammond 1590BB enclosures for it. Thing is, they come in boxes of 10 from my local electronic nerd. Will have the bux at the end of the month. If I don't spend it all on booze and loose women before then.
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