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I've got a few tips for you that will help you repair your guitar and probably also save some money:
Open your guitar's wiring cavity. Watch out on the body finish.
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You can use a DPDT (Double Pole, Double Throw) SW in your guitar wiring in many ways. You can base on this thing many kinds of tone switches. You can use it as a pickup selector. It can switch coils i...
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A common guitar tone control is a low-pass filter. It's made from pickup resistance and tone capacitor capacitance. It's called also a RC filter.
A tone pot in a guitar is used as a variable resistor ...
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Every pot used to control guitar's volume is basically a voltage divider. It's used to control how much resistance will be between the fist and the middle lug, and between the middle and the third lug...
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A varitone switch can be installed as a part of a guitar wiring in two ways: before the volume control, or after it. It really has a matter for your guitar tone. This article will help you choose the ...
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I made a diagram, which shows how 4-conductor guitar pickups (humbuckers) are configured. It can help you understand how many kinds of guitar p-up wiring (like coil-split, series, parallel) works.
Rea...
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In this post, I will show you how to make a switchable treble bleed prevention circuit. It's based on a push-pull volume potentiometer, a capacitor and a resistor.
Diagram:
The treble bleed prevent...
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Les Paul
photo by Thomas Faivre-Duboz
Hollow-body or semi-hollow electric guitars used to sound more warm and open, than solid-body constructions. It's a big advantage for many blues and jazz player.....
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This is about how Super Switch works. The diagram shows terminal connections and pin-out.
It's a 5-way, 4-pole, lever-action guitar pickup selector. If you will use a Super Switch in your axe, you w...
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This is about how Super Switch works. The diagram shows terminal connections and pin-out.
It's a 5-way, 4-pole, lever-action guitar pickup selector. If you will use a Super Switch in your axe, you w...
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How 5-way guitar pickup selector switches works:
The diagram shows pin-out and terminal connections, according to toggle or lever positions. There are three examples of popular 5-way pickup selectors....
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How 5-way guitar pickup selector switches works:
The diagram shows pin-out and terminal connections, according to toggle or lever positions. There are three examples of popular 5-way pickup selectors....
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This is about how 3-way guitar pickup selector switches works.
The diagram shows pin-out and terminal connections, according to toggle or lever positions. There are four examples of popular 3-way pick...
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This is about how 3-way guitar pickup selector switches works.
The diagram shows pin-out and terminal connections, according to toggle or lever positions. There are four examples of popular 3-way pick...
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In this post, I would like to present my way to make a good treble bleed mod (treble bleed prevention). If you were searching on-line about this circuit, you probably know what it is, and that it can ...
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The most of guitar pickup descriptions, that you can read on manufacturers websites, eBay auctions, e-stores, are usually made from marketing tricks. Yes, they are :o
You can read about how „vintage”....
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In this post, I would like to show you some YT videos of home-made electric guitars.Some people can make really nice instruments in their homes, garages, etc.
There are a lot of good parts on the mark...
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Brian May with Red Special
photo by Jaidn
Many metal and hard rock guitarist are using electric guitars with some high-output humbuckers. However, we shouldn't forget also about those guitar players.....
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If you will make the ground in your guitar wiring in a wrong way, your instrument can:
not work
add a lot of hum to the signal
be too sensitive to vibrations, so there will be a lot of strange noises...
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Today, I would like to present my favorite values of tone caps in guitar wirings. It will be the selection for a common type of a tone control: volume pot + capacitor. It's something well known from m...
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- diy tips
- capacitors
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