Dream guitar

You can't have a active circuit with passives as far as I know but I think that you can get a kit that the volume output goes to and works as a boost type of thing, I think jack white had the MXR micro amp circuit built into one of his guitars for a huge boost. On Ebay you can buy kits for not much money uf you're handy with a soldering iron id suggest giving it ago to decide of you like it.

When you say jumbo are you referring to medium jumbo (fender, Gibson etc) or extra jumbo (ESP, Jackson etc) you could try a scalloped fretboard, many guitar stores will do that for you or you could get one of your guitars refretted with the fret wore of your choice

young guy: I want a custom guitar with a bunch of different pickups, crazy switching, jumbo frets, active electronics setup for a specific heavy bottom string gauge, etc etc

middle-aged guy: I want a stock 50s Gibson

Old guys: those pre-war epiphones seem nice...

You can't have a active circuit with passives as far as I know but I think that you can get a kit that the volume output goes to and works as a boost type of thing, I think jack white had the MXR micro amp circuit built into one of his guitars for a huge boost. On Ebay you can buy kits for not much money uf you're handy with a soldering iron id suggest giving it ago to decide of you like it.

When you say jumbo are you referring to medium jumbo (fender, Gibson etc) or extra jumbo (ESP, Jackson etc) you could try a scalloped fretboard, many guitar stores will do that for you or you could get one of your guitars refretted with the fret wore of your choice

Yes, he had the Micro Amp installed in his Parsons Anniversary Gretsch copy. Oh, and don't forget Dave Grohl, which had his Mxr dyna comp taped to his Gibson RD Artist. I swear that there's a photo somewhere lol ????

Never knew Dave grohl had a dyna comp taped to a guitar haha, pretty good idea in a way

Why though. It's not like you'd want to fiddle with a comp during a show of all things.

Why though. It's not like you'd want to fiddle with a comp during a show of all things.

not if I have to bend down, but I always fiddle with knobs on my guitars, its part of my sound.... like an effect. I am not saying I will tape a dynacomp to one of my babies, but I get it.

I understand about fiddling with knobs, but a comp? It's a fairly set, and forget piece of kit.

I understand about fiddling with knobs, but a comp? It's a fairly set, and forget piece of kit.

nah, you can do some crazy shit with a dynacomp going between lightly compressed boost and heavy compression with lower output, I can see it.... it definitely drives a tube amp or a distortion pedal very differently depending on the relationship between those 2 knobs. I kinda get it. I don't think I would bother, but I get it.

Old guys: those pre-war epiphones seem nice...

oh and they are! one day I'll buy a pre-war Martin, Washburn, Gibson or Epi acoustic... maybe when Lucian's college is paid for.

I understand about fiddling with knobs, but a comp? It's a fairly set, and forget piece of kit.

nah, you can do some crazy shit with a dynacomp going between lightly compressed boost and heavy compression with lower output, I can see it.... it definitely drives a tube amp or a distortion pedal very differently depending on the relationship between those 2 knobs. I kinda get it. I don't think I would bother, but I get it.

Sorry, but that was actually Boss Dm-2 delay pedal. I haven't seen the photo in a long time. I will post the link later, hold on

now it makes a lotta sense

now it makes a lotta sense How?

analog delay knobs would be fun to tweak from your guitar of course..... crazy repeats and pitch bends....

Hell yeah. What's the science behind it though?

its just a quirk of BBD chips, when you change the delay times the feedback changes pitch, however, new delays will be in pitch.... that's actually what makes chorus work, the delayed signal is pitch bent because there's an oscillator controlled by the rate knob that changes the delay time subtley. The whole existence of chorus as an effect is based around the shortcomings of the BBD delay lines of the 70s. No one would have invented it if they hadn't noticed that a change in d-time causes a change in the pitch of the feedback from this sort of delay device. Although tape can act similarly too depending on how different delay times are achieved. If its with tape speed then it produces pitch change, if its a moving tape head or multiple heads like an echoplex or binson unit? then no, a change in d-time has no effect on pitch. A machine like the roland space echo has multiple playback heads as well as variable tape speed, so it can do it all...

While we're on a roll, what's the science behind ring mods?

a ring mod has an oscillator that produces a sine wave (modulator) at a fixed pitch that then modulates the incoming signal (carrier) when they are mixed together in the correct proportions... in analog electronics this is usually accomplished with a ring of diodes, hence 'ring' mod

EDIT: if I recall the technology comes from radio transmitting where the strong and simple modulating wave helps to send the carrier further and then your radio decodes the combined signal leaving (in theory) only the carrier with the actual broadcasted material you want to hear... you can think through the implications of that next time you drive through a tunnel and before the radio goes to pure static it gets all ring moddy and garbled :-)

There's one other I forgot about:

http://www.duesenberg.de/sites/default/files/styles/stage_full_landscape-copy/public/guitars/dtv-rs_stage.png?itok=8KR5YWj1