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pinkjimiphoton

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  1. http://zerocapcable.com/?page_id=224 free your mind, the rest will follow the TRUTH about tone capacitors conclusive proof of the truth. rock on!
  2. got all three of mine. still kickin; happy holidays, ya guiterrorists! kisses n shit panky
  3. kev, don't get too hung up on brand name bullshit. several of the pedals you're paying too much for are virtually identical circuits electronically, and can be had for 50-100 or less in "chinese" versions on ebay n shit. the bluebox is more of a phase locked loop than a fuzz per se. pll's are a pain in the ass to design with. god, i hate them things. the fulltone 69 is just a fuzzface. it has a PRESET volume loss, which you can accomplish with your guitar knobs alone. last i checked, silicon, not ge. its not really an improvement, just easier for guys to dial it in without using their guitar as part of the equation. ya'll would be surprised how much of the marketing hype shite ya'll believe to be just bunk-mojo, as so so soooooo many of these "must-have" circuits are virtually the same inside. basically these days, its a fuzz face or tonebender.... almost the same thing or a big muff.... literally thousands of variants or a tube screamer.... even MORE variants from all the others. those 4 basic circuits cover about 99% of the whole fuzz world thats out there. one component change and people call it original. mostly they take old circuits, make a couple minor part value changes and "tweak" them to lean toward a specific tonality. its pretty easy. fuck, if i can do it.... as for shin ei? you REALLY wanna pay inflated vintage prices NEW for shit that's #1 selling point is nostalgia? do ya really wanna spend 400 bux on a superfuzz when you can get literally the same circuit for 39.95 shipped? the amount of disinformation and obscurities and downright misleading information people sling is ridiculous. i used to hang on every word in reviews by GP here for years... and now realize a lot of it was byzzword bullshit. if ya REALLY love fuzz, get yourself a breadboard and cook your own up. its easy, and you'll find you may enjoy building your own, rather than paying insane money for literally less than 40 bux worth of parts. devil's advocate here. fuzz on
  4. hey WP i still got the full gospel business board for most things, but i keep a completely different pedalboard ready to go if i'm laZy. i actually keep a crybaby and da ff in my guitar gig bag so if i wanna just travel lite, i grab that and a princeton. i keep a spare univibe in the back of the amp, and with that, the fuZzface and the wah, i'm good for almost any situation. which is funny, cuz the big rig is ridiculous these days. the basic board is around 90 lbs, and includes old roland analogs and stuff now. sick shit. so yeah, i say go for the multiples. i probably have 10 fuzzfaces kicking around. i still have 3 of the 4 boss me 5's i've used for decades now. its always good to have spares for kit you rely on. rock on J! p
  5. pinkjimiphoton

    yo

    been a few years, figured i'd check in. how's things? ssdd here in dungeonland. busy with my breadboard the last few years, a couple hundred new designs later, still going. gotta couple commercial pedals coming out thru a company called missing link audio gotta couple other companies selling boards for some of my stuff still leading the same band... oct 30 will be the smokin herb's 20th bday. crazy how time flies. anyways... hope all are well. keep wailing! pink
  6. last nite's jam caught in it's entirety. some of the stuff is amusing... whippin post at breakneck speed comes to mind. lotsa clams. lotsa tequilla flowing. i do this every thurday and get somewhere between 15 and 40 musicians processed thru the jam between 9 pm and 12... last nite we didn't get off stage til almost 1... some great guitar playing in there you may appreciate.. and lottsa clams!! https://archive.org/details/JamNite2014-03-27.JamNite2014-03-27
  7. yeah, i had a bond electra glide with the original case, power supply etc etc in great shape, was from 1985. needed money. very cool guitar, but not particularly playable for a guy like me who does a lot of bends and OVERbends.. the saw toothed fingerboard sucked monkey balls for playing lead, but was surprisingly good for rhythym for the same reason. put it on evilbay, bin 1,000. it was gone in seconds. if i'd known a forumite wanted one, i woulda done a much better deal. as for the power supply, if anyone needs one, the local authorized by bond repair guy, doug carroll, still has the power supplies or can build you one if anyone needs it. send me a pm. or ask reif or picker or someone to get ahold of me on facebook, where i'm a bit more ubiquitous. but its a 24volt dc supply needed for the guitar. the guitar signal itself is on the tips, the power on the sleeves if memory serves, but don't quote me on it cuz the thing is lost to the sands of time. at least it was a guy from the big apple who actually plays his guitar collection (which is vast and has some serious axes in it) peace if i get a chance, i'll post a couple other oddballs from my collection. it's kinda slim right now... wait'll ya see the photon zoggittar me and my brother zoggie did back in the early 90's... started as a tiesco tulip. it got put thru the digital (as in fingers) mole station and ended up vaguely shapped like a drunken octagon. we figured out a system using of all things sheetrock screws to let you preset stops to catch the strings under behind the nut and behind the bridge. it was easily tunable with a screwdriver, so you could change tunings in the middle of a song if you were slick enough. i came up with the idea cuz back then i used to use a lot of open tunings for slide (never, ever EVER anymore) and with this, you could go from open e to open d or a or g or c or my fav (don't try this at home kids) low to hi g(up from e) c (up from a) e (up from g) open g, b e. that way i could play minor or major chord inversions with some handy parallel 4ths and stuff in various spots on the neck. sometimes i'd raise the b to c. that was where the idea came from... how to make one pos guitar have as many easily accessible tunings as possible. once ya did it a couple times, it got pretty easy. and it looked cool... like a guitar version of pinhead from hellraiser... weird planet, huh?
  8. THE ONLY REASON THIS GUY APOLOGIZED IS CUZ THEY CAN'T AFFORD MORE BAD PRESS!! original TC ELECTRONICS stuff when made in denmark was brilliant. this mass-produced chinese crap is crap. you guys already i think know my TC tale of woe. they don't stand behind shit. and if you do manage to get them to do a waranty repair, you get the same piece back. i plain don't trust wave soldered bullshit... if it messed up once, it will mess up again.. and in my case, it did. repeatedly. when i contacted tc about the SAME PROBLEM ON THE FIXED UNIT, i was told i was on my own. granted, it was past waranty. but to be real, it should have been properly addressed the first time. i won't go into all the details of it unless asked... but i will never ever use tc stuff again. the only reason i've kept the two pedals i have is cuz they were signed by steve morse (who told me when i met him, part of the "prize" was supposed to be getting them from him... one more facepalm) no thanks. the polytune is even more annoying than the nova delay constantly needing it's memory reset. for one thing, it's a440 doesn't agree with any other unit i have and seems to be sharp, i can live with that.. but when in use, it mutes the guitar...and puts out serious digital interference picked up by every rig i've tried it thru. i even went so far as to run a dedicated line from my fx send to the input of the polytune, and even with it's output not plugged into the amp, the interference in use is ridiculous. these guys need to get their crap in one sock, for sure.
  9. props to my old bandmates, mark and barry easton and my friends mike foster and shat... one of ct's best bands ever returns after a 30+ year hiatus with some of the strongest original music i have ever heard...this in from leader Michael Foster: AVALANCHE CD RELEASE and NEW WEBSITE Hey Folks... Well, it's been a while in getting completed, (over five years) but our brand new CD "WILL THERE BE TOMORROW" was released worldwide on April 1, 2012. Mixed by Michael Foster and Mastered by David Pendragon, the full sound quality of a WAV CD makes a huge difference in the overall listening quality and power of the music, and will make the songs sound better than you have ever heard them sound before. We recommend turning up the volume for maximum listening enjoyment. The CD includes a full color 32 page booklet with information about the band, full song info and liner notes, and complete lyrics to all thirteen tracks. AVALANCHE'S new website is operational and should be operating at 100% by May 1, 2012. CD's purchased directly from our website will cost $12.99 (plus S&H) and will be available after that date as autographed copies. However, if you just don't want to wait, go to: www.avalanche.us.com and click on the CDbaby link. The new Documentary DVD will be available sometime in August of this year, too...and a few advance clips can be viewed now at out website. All of us in AVALANCHE want to thank all of you for your support of the band and our music...and we hope you all enjoy the CD. We made it for YOU! And pass the word to your friends about the band, and the new CD if you could. We hope that the momentum and interest in the band created by these new products will allow us to perform live on a stage near you sometime soon! Mike Foster and AVALANCHE http://soundclick.com/avalanche
  10. download song. drop some d lysergic acid. smoke a phat one. put on the headphones. hit play. close your eyes. see ya on the other side. http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=176510#
  11. i was bored. my hamster died. i had this masturbatory thing happening. my drum machine ate the lsd i lost all them years ago the teacher ate my homework. sorry....won't happen again... http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=172049#
  12. hi myles, i contacted stew mac...they explained it very simply, it's like this (as you state above) think of the pickups as resistances. when you parallel resistances, you get half the value... so... if each pickup is 14k, and the bridge and neck are on at once in parallel, that's a 7 k load. if each neck is on, this again parallels the load...now down to 3.5 k...hence why the volume drop is so substantial...it's going from 14k if one pickup is on to 3.5k if both necks are on (or somewhere between 3.5 and 7 k, depending on which pickups are on). stew mac says that's just the way it is. i COULD make the guitar active, and use a buffer on each side of the switch i imagine, but it's probably not worth it. thanks bud, i really appreciate the time and help!!
  13. aha!! so in parallel it's loading it down more? dumb question, but could i add a small series resistance to accomplish the same thing without having to wire the necks themselves in series? it seems that wiring them in series is gonna defeat the purpose of having the necks parallel in the first place...i want to keep the controls independent if possible, wiring in series would mean if i shut one vol off completely, it would kill the whole guitar, correct? perhaps i may just have to live with it. as wired, it's more like an epiphone than a eds 1275...here's a pic of the wiring as it was supposed to be, stock: http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt137/pinkjimiphoton/doublewiring.jpg the only real diff in mine is that i wired the volume pots to be independant, by putting the "hot" from the pickups to the wiper of the associated pot rather than using the wiper as output from the pots, as i understand that was the traditional gibson style of wiring them for pickup & associated electronics independence. also added a small treble bleed to the pots, 100k/47pf like i usually do... i don't remember the gibson having this issue, perhaps because it had a master volume tone for each pickup position (ie: both neck pickups/both "both"/both bridge pups) rather than each neck. if i DO try the series wiring, all i need to do is make sure that the output of one neck feeds the input of the next, right? would i need to add another switch to the guitar to pull that off? sorry for all the questions!! i appreciate your time bro, thanks!!
  14. hi myles, i gotta new problem i hope you can help me with... recently i built a doubleneck sg style kit i got on evil bay. nice axe, believe it or not, plays great, sounds great...but it's got one problem that's got me stumped electronically. each neck's electronics work fine, and i've got it well - balanced output/tone wise from neck to bridge on both necks, and even from neck to neck. but when i put both necks on in parallel, that's when the prob is hitting....it's not a phasing issue, but i get a substantial volume drop...very noticeable, i'd say probably 3-6 db or so...enough where when you choose just one neck, it's about twice as loud. i DO NOT remember my old gibson doing this...so i figure there's gotta be something i missed when i wired this puppy up. do you have any idea what the problem is, and if so, how to fix it? i mean, i can live with it, but it's kinda annoying!! thanks in advance,. jimi
  15. thanks myles, i ordered a couple to see what's what, if they work out i'll post back and let ya know!
  16. hey ben, did you replace the driver tube when you replaced the power tubes? it's the preamp tube closest to the power tubes, usually a 12at7 or 12ax7. they get driven harder than the other preamp tubes, and if your amp starts sounding mushy, or dieing, it could be the problem. cheap fix if that's the problem, if not, i'd suspect a cold solder joint or an open winding in the output transformer...something is expanding and breaking contact when it heats up. but i'd start with the driver tube...to test it, plug an extra tube or pilfered tube from another amp in the driver slot and see if the problem goes away. if it does, just replace it with whatever it's supposed to have in there, and that should take care of your problem hopefully. we'll see what the man has to say! peace
  17. hey myles, gotta weird question for you...do you think i could successfully build a piezo tune-o-matic style bridge using piezo cable? i built a double neck, and would really dig having a piezo option on the 12 string neck...but MAN!! them piezo-equipped TOM's are pricey!!! i was thinking if i bought a cheap TOM, and maybe routed just enough of a channel below the bridge saddles to snugly fit the piezo element, and then run a cable thru a hole on one side under the bridge humbucker and to a small preamp in the control cavity, i might be able to get away with it. do you think it would work? or do you have any ideas of other ways to do this? i've also thought about embedding a normal piezo element or two in some of the routs of the guitar, but figured it might be to "drony"...i appreciate the advice, bud! peace!! EDIT: i found THESE doing a websearch earlier for piezo cable, do ya think one of them could be adapted somehow?
  18. thanks myles, i'll scope 'em out... but i don't think i'll find it out there in the wild... ps systems came and went faster than a ....ummm... but i appreciate the response! peace!
  19. hey myles, just outta curiosity, and cuz i need one, do you perchance have any leads on a schematic for a ps systems power tool from the early 90's? mine crapped out last nite at the gig, i was lucky...cold solder joint on a 32,000mfd filter cap...couple minute fix, but made life a leeeeeeeeeeeeeeetle weird last nite, playing thru the PA..which i actually LIKED. i must be weird, yo... but anyways, a couple minutes of soldering and a new fuse and it's back in business... but next time, i may not be so lucky! if you can help, thanks, mate...if not, well, still, thanks, mate! peace pink
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