Aussie Guitar Gear Heads
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A forum for Aussie-made electrics, acoustics, basses and other stringed instruments. The forum also provides space to discuss Aussie-made stomp boxes and accessories, such as straps, pickups, cases, etc.
Aussie Guitar Gear Heads
4h ago
Quote from: onebaldbloke on Yesterday at 08:40:55 PMRob,expanding on this.
Three inductors, ala Ampeg, with boost or cut would be sensational.
Interested?
I seem to remember that the old Ampeg amps used a multi-tapped inductor to provi ..read more
Aussie Guitar Gear Heads
8h ago
Rob,expanding on this.
Three inductors, ala Ampeg, with boost or cut would be sensational.
Interested ..read more
Aussie Guitar Gear Heads
8h ago
Quote from: vintagerob on Today at 06:07:37 PMAhh you didn't find the GPS tracker that I carefully secreted inside then Bob?
It's great, Rob. Reminds me very much of my old Ampegs ..read more
Aussie Guitar Gear Heads
10h ago
I may get keen and measure L1 inductance - and the leakage/inductance of the secondary. It would be good to confirm the 350kHz resonance mechanism, as it may be able to be suppressed ..read more
Aussie Guitar Gear Heads
10h ago
Great research! Few comments:
* not surprised by the load voltage regulation (or lack thereof!) given such a simple circuit.
* just modelled it in Ltspice (albeit with BD244As - similar but different) and it's pretty amazing how deceptively simple thi ..read more
Aussie Guitar Gear Heads
10h ago
Quote from: onebaldbloke on Today at 05:08:34 PMUnfortunately, just as the pedal arrived from Rob, I've made the decision to relocate to the Bahamas tomorrow, future address unknown, and Rob may never see this pedal again.
Sad face.
:laugh ..read more
Aussie Guitar Gear Heads
12h ago
Quote from: katopan on Today at 03:28:00 PMNever seen it, but could you remove the top three magnets from one pickup and the bottom three from another, then mount the two pickups on a pickguard at the different spacing, of course wired to b ..read more
Aussie Guitar Gear Heads
12h ago
Unfortunately, just as the pedal arrived from Rob, I've made the decision to relocate to the Bahamas tomorrow, future address unknown, and Rob may never see this pedal again.
Sad face ..read more
Aussie Guitar Gear Heads
12h ago
My ebayed converter modules came in the other day. Just went through some initial checks on one sample, which had the following schematic.
This graph is output voltage regulation as output ..read more
Aussie Guitar Gear Heads
14h ago
Quote from: onebaldbloke on Today at 03:11:22 PMI generally find rear pups too bright. Ideally, I'd have the 3 plain strings moved further away from the bridge, but not sloped like a Tele pup.
Never seen it, but could you remove th ..read more