I did that once at a ju-jitsu dojo and went home with a dislocated elbow that took 18 months to get right.

Gladly were not so viscious in retribution here. The OP's a good bloke. He's just struggling a bit to get used to a good system that he thought was going to answer his dreams. Alas its never that way.

Blackie be patient mate that system takes a lot of manipulation. Watch E.C live recently, he's constantly riding the controls. Mine never goes from pure clean to pure drive without mid and vol adjustments, whether that be through my marshalls a blues jr or 59 watkins. Its a versatile system but like all versatile systems it requires accurate, complicated adjustment to acheive its potential.

It's a ball ache but worth the rewards the pain causes. I found mine does a great ACDC or sabbath tone.

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Gladly were not so viscious in retribution here. The OP's a good bloke. He's just struggling a bit to get used to a good system that he thought was going to answer his dreams. Alas its never that way.


I guess I'm still trying to unravel his post. He speaks of a 'homebrew'. Do I infer from this that he did what you did...drop a midboost kit into his guitar? Or am I missing something? The bottom line is that he is not as 'loud' as his mates and he is disappointed.

He doesn't say what he is playing. What pickups. Maybe the capacitance at the pots is inadequate to the task. Need more info to help this chap.

Doc

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I thought his was louder than his mates, which i would attribute to battery power loss.
He did drop a boost kit in his favourite squeeze, the wole kit pots included. Albeit with lace hot golds. I did advise him to place a 62k resistor on the hot jacksocket wire awhile back when he complained about harshness. Its a mod i did that does lower output a smidgen just enough to take the edge off. I didnt hear any real volume loss with it, just a slight sweetening. I presumed he'd remember that if he's done it, and snip it out if it became a problem.

Like i say Clapton constantly rides his controls, something he's done since his yardbirds days. When we've 45 years of practice at it we can expect the same results. Until we attain that level all we can do is hope.

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Well there then, he's comparing apples and oranges as I often say. He's under the misconception that he's running the same as stock which is not the case.

I leave him to your good offices.

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As you and I strongly suspect Doc were all running different spec's to the man himself. Unless ofcourse your one of the lucky three.

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The matter did not come out of the gate clearly stated. He should have prefaced his question with a description of his gear, followed by his observations, and then to his inquiry. We would have all been on the same page.

Seem to remember someone in a post months ago who was interested in an aftermarket midboost, and you were quite helpful on the installation including a URL to a link elsewhere. It this the same bloke?

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No this one has happened since then. Sometime during your winterbreak if i remember correctly. It is a very new experience to the OP if i'm right. As you know he should give it time to learn its adaptability. After all even the most hardend EC devotee keeps a strat thats just a strat knocking around the place.
I look on my CS guitar for those qualities as its s1 isnt invasive to natural scn pickup tone. As i suspect the neck on switch of the gilmour isnt either within the parameters of its pickup spec.

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As i suspect the neck on switch of the gilmour isnt either within the parameters of its pickup spec.[/quote]

Only David would know how he colors is sound through the use of that mini-toggle. I for one find that depletes the quality of the tone. But given the nature of the rest of the signal chain, who knows how it all figures into the mix. I do know one thing...that bridge pickup is a honey.

Doc.

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Not something you hear said about many strats.

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Or how good the battery is.

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In another, but related note, I've just come off Pete Cornish's website. This is must read for all those questors for the holy grails of tone. Not in a million lifetimes will they come to realize the sound they pursue sound with store bought gear.

If you closely inspect Gilmour's 2006 floorboard, you'll see all the familiar ingredients. What you don't have is the recipe. That's all in his head.

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You're late You missed the raffle drawing. This one has been fascinating. Read it from the top. Hope the weather didn't hang you up today.

Doc

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You're late You missed the raffle drawing. This one has been fascinating. Read it from the top. Hope the weather didn't hang you up today.

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In the immortal words of Emily Latella, "Oh, well in that case, never mind!"

We got away easy with the weather last night and today. I'd say about 3-4" and that's it. I see you guys got hammered though.

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Only David would know how he colors is sound through the use of that mini-toggle. I for one find that depletes the quality of the tone. But given the nature of the rest of the signal chain, who knows how it all figures into the mix. I do know one thing...that bridge pickup is a honey.

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I would like to have that honey of a pup in the bridge of a tele and a lipstick in the neck. Wonder how that would cut the mustard? A third pup of some kind for the middle?

Sorry for the interruption!

13 inches ; The private snow removal crew which services my community is in the process of making a second pass through. They've done my driveway twice, and finally my walk and front steps. I opted out of the commute to the office and university today. I could see myself in the LIRR parking lot at 11:00 p.m. digging out in the current windchill of 5.
'NOT" "We Can Be Heroes" was not to be the anthem of the day this year.

Doc.

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