It may well be the urge to have yet another instrument that kept Me going and working om Me two DIY guitar projects. For a couple of day´s both of them has proofed to be nice instruments. Adjustments have been made every day, and finally they seam to reach the point of becoming finished projects.
The "Vibraslim-clone" ©Burns, did finally receive it´s five pickup´s. With it came the problem of connecting them to the selectors (a 5 way & a 4 way). To start with it was easy and after half an hour of soldering the guitar was in buisness, giving 5 different sound´s from its 5 pickups.
simplified cirsuit schematics.
Next step was to connect the 4 way selector to give the instrument a few more pickup configuration´s.
1,st page of pickup configurarion´s
suddenly I realised that instead of 5 different sound config´s there was 16! That´s the way to go. The different parts of the guitar was put together once again, may be one of the last out of at least 50 times taking it all apart.
tje Snakepit, loads of wire´s
Finally the next step will be to fit a nice binding around the guitarbody, sand everything to a proper finish and the it´s about time to paint the whole guitar. Still I hav´nt decided what colour it shall be as I dont want the it to show to all and everyone that it´s made out of laminated wood.
partly finish´d guitar, now with two different knobs for the selectors.
During the same time a couple of new tune´s have been written and made into demo-recordings. Seam´s that I finally can take a step away from the standard style of songs that I usually write´s. This time it´s a lot more of R&R in the different songs, much more aggressive then they use to be.
I do think this is a common problem among all songwriters. They soon end up in a certain style of music where its almost impossible to escape from. Everything seam to sound the same, or at least very similar to song written before.
In the so called studio everything is in some kind of progress. Old gear is swapped to better sounding items. Some new (secondhand) loudspeakers is installed instead of the old one. Those newly found speakers are bigger and sounds much better.
As a member of "Pippi Longstockings thing finding club" i do have my sources for finding new parts. Just a week ago I found a large snakepit of what i first regarded as guitar cables. Pulling in one end show that it wasnt guitar cables, but microphone cables, 6 of them and in the end of three of them was three microphone. One fairly simple mic but there was also 2 exellent Condensor micrphones of hig quality. Yet some new useful gadget to me small studio.
1,st page of pickup configurarion´s
suddenly I realised that instead of 5 different sound config´s there was 16! That´s the way to go. The different parts of the guitar was put together once again, may be one of the last out of at least 50 times taking it all apart.
tje Snakepit, loads of wire´s
Finally the next step will be to fit a nice binding around the guitarbody, sand everything to a proper finish and the it´s about time to paint the whole guitar. Still I hav´nt decided what colour it shall be as I dont want the it to show to all and everyone that it´s made out of laminated wood.
During the same time a couple of new tune´s have been written and made into demo-recordings. Seam´s that I finally can take a step away from the standard style of songs that I usually write´s. This time it´s a lot more of R&R in the different songs, much more aggressive then they use to be.
I do think this is a common problem among all songwriters. They soon end up in a certain style of music where its almost impossible to escape from. Everything seam to sound the same, or at least very similar to song written before.
In the so called studio everything is in some kind of progress. Old gear is swapped to better sounding items. Some new (secondhand) loudspeakers is installed instead of the old one. Those newly found speakers are bigger and sounds much better.
As a member of "Pippi Longstockings thing finding club" i do have my sources for finding new parts. Just a week ago I found a large snakepit of what i first regarded as guitar cables. Pulling in one end show that it wasnt guitar cables, but microphone cables, 6 of them and in the end of three of them was three microphone. One fairly simple mic but there was also 2 exellent Condensor micrphones of hig quality. Yet some new useful gadget to me small studio.
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