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Phew!

But you have to have the trem blocked (like Clapton) to put the battery in there, right? If you want to use the trem, then I presume you must create a cavity for the battery - is that right?

Not planning on doing it: just curious.

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no you can fit the battery inbetween the selecter switch and pots if your very carefull. I found it too tricky :oops: and got moments of shortcircuit when i changed pickup selection. So i thought about it and moved it.

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you will struggle to get the stereo jacksocket into the cavity, you can do it though if you bend the prongs a bit.

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nikininja wrote:
Make sure the tbx tone control is at the bottom of your controls, or do as i did and ditch it. I prefered a regular tone control.
The strat i put it in has minimal routing and i didnt need to do any to get the mod in. :D


hi. i'm an absolute beginner in electronics. if i wanna use a standard tone control do i just solder the clapton pcb normally without changing the regular pots/knobs etc? thx :)


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You can use any pot for the tone control but the volume pot needs to be a 50k ohm resistance and the mid boost pot should be a 250k ohm resistance. I tried a 1 meg pot for volume and got a terrible howling sound at anything past 2.

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Seems I fell into this late but I would have suggested waiting on Niki in that we know he managed this modification well. The photos on the URL site he offered of the Clapton routing are nicely self-explanatory as to the challenge posed in this exercise. I've never seen that kill switch on anything other than the 35th Anniversary Stratocaster.

To address Ceri' s question: The battery placement in the trem rout was something I used for my DG-20 mod on my '97. I mentioned that when Niki was looking for some options. Though I blocked the trem, I wonder that the battery placement wouldn't limit the use of the trem in that the cavity cover pretty much holds the battery in place and shouldn't really limit the travel of the remaining springs.

Now depending on one's penchant for irreversible changes, as long as one is not dealing with a swimming pool body rout, routing out the slot in the lower wall of the trem cavity a la the Clapton shouldn't be too severe a mod. The trem cavity cover hides that nicely, and the 9V fits in there well.

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You could use the trem with the battery in the cavity if you could find some way of holding it away from the springs and balanced the trem with just two springs. Otherwise i suspect you would get spring noise on trem use, like how hendrix used to tap the springs for certain effects.

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[quote="nikininja"]

Additionally, the number of springs and weight varies w/ trem design; The vintage guitars have 5 heavy springs. There's room to subtract a spring. Some of these guitars are seen to have three which converge to the trem claw. This would likely make placing the battery in the trem cavity difficult.

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nikininja wrote:
You can use any pot for the tone control but the volume pot needs to be a 50k ohm resistance and the mid boost pot should be a 250k ohm resistance. I tried a 1 meg pot for volume and got a terrible howling sound at anything past 2.


I've just tried doing it and the boost seems to work fine until i boost volume past around 7... I suspect it's because of a 250k pot for volume... i used the old pot for the mid boost pot. (i assume it's 250k) would that be correct?
(i just tried to replicate the wiring diagram supplied with the mid boost kit and left the stock mid pot in there instead of putting in the tbx pot)

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