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let me tell you about my custom rig
StoreTags: FU techno, sabbath, bass
Author: j_chot on September 21 2008 Viewed 1677 times. 16 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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isn't it beautiful.......
(from top to bottom)
-peavey kb 60
-peavey mark VI
-2x15 trace elliot aluminum cones (or so guitar bob says...)
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this is "The Carpenter's Daughter". she was a fender mexi-squier, I sanded all the plastic off, hacked in a extra humbucker, amongst other things. My goal was to make a unique sounding, feeling, and looking guitar/bass. and also to make it look like it was made in shop class.(hence the name) (that's a masonite pickguard btw;) ) since I buzzed all the paint off, the resonance is WAY better (or worse depending on your standpoint) I can actually scream into the guitar and it will come through the amp. great sustain, very much improved tone...the wood is raw, and it feels great...I've been thinking about doing a super thin poly coat on it though....it still needs more sanding, but then again I need practice more. so untill my friend swings by with his broken squier and I frankenstein that bad boy (for a backup) , I'm gonna leave the daughter alone for a while.
I had been tuning it to E-B-D#-C#, but I've discovered that it sounds/plays way better when I tune it to:C-G-D-A. One problem I've encountered is that the strings become detuned too easily. can I tighten tuners? I know that thicker strings will help, but can anyone reccomend some tuners that are especially resialiant to detuning?
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there are tone and volume for each pickup, and each pickup has it's own output. the humbucker goes to the sd-1 and the keyboard amp(which is SCREACHINGLY loud for some reason) and the bass goes to the OC-2 and the ODB-3, then the peavey mark VI/2x15.
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I drilled a hole to put in an extra tuning key for the banjo string.
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oh yeah, I forgot, I did the speaker fabric cover's my self...when I bought the 2x15, it just had the metal grates over the speakers. I put casters on it, glued/screwed/tacked all the plastic/hardware back down, painted the chips, and made it pretty.
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09/21/08
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Roshi
LOL at cello tuning on bass
09/21/08
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astroboy
looks awesome, but let me be the first to say:
smaples or STFU!
09/21/08
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quip
nice nice. i am just about to hack my guitar to pieces too. how does the humbucker perform on a 4 string?
buy more speakers!
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09/21/08
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utofbu
are those paisleys????
09/21/08
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KidQuaalude
sexy.
re : tuning - cant you just tighten up the screw on the machine heads?
09/21/08
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j_chot
KidQuaalude said: "sexy.
re : tuning - cant you just tighten up the screw on the machine heads?"
no, damn it. I've tried.
09/21/08
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u8myreel
you have done good here.
09/21/08
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tunalicker
09/21/08
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tylth
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this is a link to the vst version of the instrument that lunatinker posted previously
09/21/08
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madeofoak
you're going to have a hard time getting that low string down to a c without being totally unstable tuning-wise. stock fender tuning pegs should hold fine, but does yours have loose squier ones? i don't really think it would help either way; your best bet is to just up the thickness of the strings. you'll probably lose that loose feel you like, though.
09/22/08
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tunalicker
madeofoak is right.
i have an open tuning on my normalz guitar. i use different gauges from different sets to get closer to the right tension though.
do they make a "fuck off" big bass string you could get tighter?
09/22/08
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j_chot
I think they do, but I need flat/tapewound
09/23/08
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Lara
beautiful grill cloth job. beautiful!
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