This interview with Paul Reed Smith is hilarious!!!...
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mongooz
Sic Semper Tyrannis
fun interview.
however......
back in the day, true story, me and the other guitarist in our band (both of us guit. tech's) really DID build a toilet seat guitar. we brought it into a shop we were friends with, who had a real '64 strat and who said that no other new thing could sound that good....wood....age....yadda yadda.
we plugged the toilet seat into a overdrive pedal, turned the drive to 10 and into an amp and it turned out his precious strat did NOT sound better than the toilet seat.
the caveat is that we had the distortion turned up so far that NO wood could make a difference.
proving our point that if you're playing thru a bunch of overdrive/distortion, the vintage of the guitar doesn't matter.
he was not amused.
DinoMikeSr
I have the box
Jim Lill tested so much and achieved the results that made sense to me based on the years I tinkered around with stuff.
I regret not giving him shit for throwing away the foam block that was on the pick-up switch on my DGT SE.
“THAT’S WHERE ALL THE TONE COMES FROM!”
“THAT’S WHERE ALL THE TONE COMES FROM!”
WilmerTheWhite
BREAUX
Balsa wood is of course impossible to use for the construction parts of a guitar. Still Gibson use it instead of maple as a tone block in their Howard Roberts Fusion - and also for the es135 (?). It helps against feedback, but gives no change of the sound. It still sounds like a full hollow body.
DinoMikeSr
I have the box
Pots: my thoughts on this: You have a 500k pot. I’ve measured them and turned them down until the meter reads 250k. I’ve measured 250k pots to where it reads 250k. When I turn the 500k pot down to 250k isn’t that the same 250k as measured wide open on a 250k pot? I can get brighter with a 500k pot by just turning it up but with 500k pots I can still get that 250k sound by adjusting it.
I see what he’s saying if I want to limit it to just 250k, but if I don’t, do I not have both 250k and 500k options simply because of the tange of a 500k pot?
I have strats with both 250k and 500k pots and it sounds to me like I can dial in the 250k strat on the strat with 500k pots.
Also, so far I haven’t had pots that I have replaced that just go from 0 to 250 or 500k. They all gradually increase as I turn the knob.
I see what he’s saying if I want to limit it to just 250k, but if I don’t, do I not have both 250k and 500k options simply because of the tange of a 500k pot?
I have strats with both 250k and 500k pots and it sounds to me like I can dial in the 250k strat on the strat with 500k pots.
Also, so far I haven’t had pots that I have replaced that just go from 0 to 250 or 500k. They all gradually increase as I turn the knob.
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baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
@DinoMikeSr It’s just difficult on the fly to find that sweet spot. I’ve wired rotary switches with a couple different resistors and a couple pots to get different tones… an esquire can be wired that way as well.
When I modded the electronics of my Thorn, I used a no load pot so I can get a variety of tones like normal, but if I need a little extra brightness to cut through, going fron 9 to 10 on the pot acts like snipping the wire to remove the pot from the circuit.
When I modded the electronics of my Thorn, I used a no load pot so I can get a variety of tones like normal, but if I need a little extra brightness to cut through, going fron 9 to 10 on the pot acts like snipping the wire to remove the pot from the circuit.