Time for another exciting day. Per usual, I have not eaten lunch yet, big surprise there. Today I am thinking some bacon and eggs would do it though, so that is what I will be eating, when I find myself hungry.
Space management is a big issue for me, living in an apartment, and consequently my studio is quite full. I am pretty much at the cusp right now, not much more can be held in this place. It just doesn't have the power. I have been creative through use of shelves, tool boxes, shelving brackets and the like, but without some severe revamp, it won't go any further. Here is a picture of my current room, with a messy desk of course (a sign of genius they say).
As you can see the cases standing are between the previously mentioned shelf brackets, there are shelves in the closet, you name it. Not to mention typical dog photobombing, he seems to pop up everywhere.
How do you deal with space? Or do you not have much in terms of confines?
As mentioned yesterday, some folks gut the MFD's right out of their G&L. I find that one to be really odd, given how it seems more and more brands of offering garbage for pickups. When I see a guitar I can buy without having to swap the pickups, it is much more appealing. Ideally I don't have to do a lot of work to get a guitar doing what I want. If it can do what I need and well off the hop, I will pay a premium for it, opposed to giving it hours upon hours at the bench. I did mod my ASAT for a 4 way switch, but that was about it.
To MFD , or not? It was the MFDs that sold this G&L.
Lastly, as someone mentioned sounds or something yesterday, I will tote the dreaded swiss army knife. A general beast bred of dissatisfaction in sound, which became a all around monster with a near Zappa level control scheme. My Carvin C66.
It doesn't get much for play nowadays, but before being outclassed by by EBMM and PRS it was my long practice axe, for the aforementioned long term comfort reasons with the ASAT, just not my jamming axe. Not a bad axe by any means, but it took me a very long time to get it where I was happy with how it was sounding. The pickups are BKP Rebel Yells, nice pickups, lots of upper mid presence, very ballsy. The sustain block is now made of tungsten, which reinforced the low end of the guitar some (the combined added mass / length + increased hardness seems likely to have lowered the frequency, extra 50g after all. Hardness is more important than mass though, in this case).
So the controls now, they are something. Step 1 is that big chrome 4P3T switch. Both pickups run into that and are toggled between series/split/parallel. Off the middle of that, the north and south finish wires are intercepted by the pot in the middle. This is a 'humbucker control pot' and what it does is rolls off the high frequency from ONE coil, not both, which stops the highs of the other from being cancelled out. A bit brighter, but just as far as humbucker, so closer to a P90. Which coil depends on whether you pull the pot of not. From there a standard 3 way blade -> vol -> tone. The tone pulls for a phase switch on the neck, and you can depress the volume pot for a kill switch (shadow kill pot).
Overall, a pretty cool setup that lets you coax everything imaginable out of those pickups.
Ever taken on some really ambitious modding?
