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llllllllllllllllllllllll wrote:japmn wrote:Mine are the GFS, which I hear people don't really like, but they sound pretty good to me. They were cheap and it had some really shitty generic Humbuckers in there before I traded them out. I don't really like HB at all so they had to go.I bought a friend the GFS humbucker sized P90 set as a gift for his Gibson SG. He liked the pickups much better than whatever stock humbuckers come in the Faded model. He s a huge Richard Bishop fan, and I figured they d be a better match for that type of clean electric guitar and it was.The internet is dumb, but GFS can ship some stinkers occasionally - I had some of their P90s sound really great and others be a bit lackluster. For the money those look awesome and if you feel like a winner...

Fixing a Tascam 488. Supposedly the only issue is the play/record head doesn't fire up. Considering I know fuck all about this type of stuff, it should be interesting. Don't even know where to begin, honestly.

Thought this might be of interest to some folks...http://tonefiend.com/diy/indispensable-diy-tool/

Just finished this up. This started as an Electra Long Necker jazz bass circa late 60's-early 70's. I picked it up from a Goodwill auction a few years ago and I was very excited to get it. Once it arrived, I felt that I had paid too much (about $250 I think). The neck was weird, it had a little dip in it and it was impossible to set up. I tweaked the truss rod, but it didn't really help. My re-entry to full sized basses was a painful reminder of all the other cool 34 scale basses I had over the years that had neck issues. I didn't touch this Electra for a few years. I was feeling emboldened after working on that Musicmaster/Duo Sonic project and I decided to see if I could salvage this bass. I got the Bronco neck (and bridge, wiring harness and pickup) from Dr. Balls and routed the neck pocket 3/4 closer to the bridge to accommodate the 30 scale. I reshaped the pickguard appropriately and used the Bronco pickup to replace the original neck pickup, which was dead. While setting it up with new strings, two of the tuning gears stripped and broke, so I bought a set of Gotoh GB-10 tuners. After enlarging the bore hole and installing the new tuners the spacing was so tight that the plates overlapped a little. I filed them down till they fit. The last thing I had to install was the strap button on the upper horn. The hole was there, but button and screw were gone. I actually had a Fender brand replacement and didn't even think to double check the hole was drilled for the correct size. While screwing in the strap button I cracked the upper horn (that happened after the pic was taken). I was super bummed, but then I drilled it out and glued in an oak dowel, 1/2 by about 4 long, and drilled that for the strap button. I played this at practice on Saturday and then put a shim in the neck and set it up again yesterday, action was a bit high way up on the neck and the E side of the saddle was almost all the way down. The shim worked great, I used a playing card. This thing now plays great and a lot of this work was new for me; redrilling and fitting a neck, routing the body, the dowel plug. It was a great learning experience and now I have a 30 bass with a full sized jazz body. The whole thing weighs less than my Memphis 30 P bass.Thanks Dr. Balls!

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My future father-in-law gave me a pretty good router, so I thought I'd try making another Fenderbird on my own. The parts are all pretty janky to begin with so why not do some learnin'. The neck pocket was kind of a disaster but fortunately you can't see through the neck, and it's playable.(The Alumnibird on the right was done by a pro)

Just finished a ModKits The Wave Reverb unit (fucking awesome), and a BYOC Divided Octave, a clone of a Mutron. Quirky, but I m sure it has its place. A little bit goes a long ways.

I've been doing a lot of quiet electronic music lately. Sometimes in groups which include acoustic instruments. 'New music' for lack of a better term. Everything I own in the way of amplification is way more than I need for these sorts of situations, so I built a little road case for one of my studio monitors.It's 3/4" plywood and the inside is lined with tough carpet (a door mat). It came out pretty alright, the speaker box fits nice and snug.

uglysound wrote:Parts bin tape echo based on Nicholas Boscorelli's awesome Echo-Matic project. I added a tilt EQ and speed control for the tape deck (the built-in pitch control is disabled while in record mode). Someday I will build a pretty eurorack module with voltage controlled everything, but until then, I'm very happy with this ugly little guy.This looks cool as hell!

Wish me luck