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Building effects INTO guitars..

  • 28-05-2008 3:34pm
    #1
    fish-head
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    Does anybody know anything about wiring a pedal into a guitar Matt Bellamy/Jack White style? I've been thinking about doing something stupid and unnecessary like this... gonna get a Danelectro DC 59 and go nuts, since they're so cheap and cool looking.

    I reckon something like a big muff or booster would be a wonderful and ridiculous addition to an already oddball guitar.


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  • #2
    BuddhaJoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 329 ✭✭BuddhaJoe


    fish-head wrote: »
    Does anybody know anything about wiring a pedal into a guitar Matt Bellamy/Jack White style? I've been thinking about doing something stupid and unnecessary like this... gonna get a Danelectro DC 59 and go nuts, since they're so cheap and cool looking.

    I reckon something like a big muff or booster would be a wonderful and ridiculous addition to an already oddball guitar.

    Soldering wise it would be fairly easy but I would imagine a fair bit of routing my be involved to get the PCB board and 9v battery in the back. What you might consider would be a modboard from Guitar Fetish http://store.guitarfetish.com/modboards.html . I haven't tried one yet but at that price you cant go too wrong.


  • #3
    fish-head
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,896 ✭✭✭fish-head


    Yeah I have them in the back of my mind alright. Need to do a bit of research about them, see what people make of them and all that.


  • #4
    Eoin Madsen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Eoin Madsen


    I had a thought to put in an active pickup circuit using a proper ECC83 stage... but I couldn't ever figure out how to do it without running 150-250Vdc into the guitar. Anyone know where to get a 250V battery? :pac:


  • #5
    Paolo_M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 880 ✭✭✭Paolo_M


    Eoin Madsen wrote: »
    I had a thought to put in an active pickup circuit using a proper ECC83 stage... but I couldn't ever figure out how to do it without running 150-250Vdc into the guitar. Anyone know where to get a 250V battery? :pac:

    marshallstack.jpg

    All that's just messing around, what you want is one of these...:p


  • #6
    Demeyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭Demeyes


    You can get some things that replace your tone knob with a bit of distortion and other simple effects. They're not that expensive, I've never used one but I have read reviews and seen them in catalogues.
    I can't imagine it being that hard to get the electronics into a guitar but you might need to make the control cavity a bit bigger.


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