Like a lot of my experiments, they sometimes end up back where they started, but that's OK "nothing ventured nothing gained"
My Ibanez guitar has had all its "mods" removed and is back to original, with the exception
of a set of Acoustic strings .011-.052 sounds great.
Even the distortion pedal is back to normal, well sort off, where ever it ended up in terms of mods I don't really know, so I have probably missed some, but is sounds nice.
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Monday, November 28, 2011
Guitar Mods
This is my Ibanez AK95 Artcore series Electric Guitar
Yes it has a home made saddle, a piece of hard, Western Australian Jarrah, and no I don't think it changes the sound, not that i can tell anyway, I just wanted a different radius, although I now have the original one back on. I had put heavier gauge strings on and was getting some fret buzz, a slightly tighter radius fixed this. I'm now back to lighter strings, so back with the original saddle.
I've added a piezoelectric pickup that gets mixed with the sound of the magnetic pickups through a modified distortion pedal, in fact it no longer distorts at all. I'm able to get some really nice sounds, it adds a nice sharp attack to it, not quite like a straight acoustic, but very nice.
I've just started using my guitar strap, which is a good idea even if you play seated as I do.
The strap holds the guitar neck in a good position, so you don't have to hold as well finger the chords. This has meant relocating my little clip to the scratch guard screw, I run the cable under the scratch plate, so far so good. will put up a picture soon.
I have a plastic clip made from a milk bottle on the strap button to hold the inline RCA plug. I use low capacitance cable for both types of pickup which is important if you want to keep your high frequencies in tact.
This is the modified pedal, quite a few mods really, better frequency responce no clipping diodes in fact I can't remember all of the changes. Basically you have tone, level and on and off for the piezo via the foot switch.
Yes it has a home made saddle, a piece of hard, Western Australian Jarrah, and no I don't think it changes the sound, not that i can tell anyway, I just wanted a different radius, although I now have the original one back on. I had put heavier gauge strings on and was getting some fret buzz, a slightly tighter radius fixed this. I'm now back to lighter strings, so back with the original saddle.
I've added a piezoelectric pickup that gets mixed with the sound of the magnetic pickups through a modified distortion pedal, in fact it no longer distorts at all. I'm able to get some really nice sounds, it adds a nice sharp attack to it, not quite like a straight acoustic, but very nice.
I've just started using my guitar strap, which is a good idea even if you play seated as I do.
The strap holds the guitar neck in a good position, so you don't have to hold as well finger the chords. This has meant relocating my little clip to the scratch guard screw, I run the cable under the scratch plate, so far so good. will put up a picture soon.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Digital Audio Workstation
Being a Linux user and a bit of a "Muso" means hunting out the best tools to get some recording done.
Some time ago I found a great program called Ardour. http://ardour.org/
If your Linux based and want to do some multi-track work check it out. By using a program called "Festige" and "Wine" you can even run some Windows VST plugins, which is really handy. I find though that the plugins available in Linux are all that I need, a good re-verb and good Eq is all I really need. I just record guitar and vocal live.
Latest update:
If your a windows user try out "Podium Free" available at http://www.zynewave.com
Most of the windows "DAWS" seem to work quite well under "WINE" and Linux which could be another option.
John
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