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Sep. 4th, 2003 12:03 pmThe input jack on the red guitar seems to be working, save that now I have some sort of shielding feedback, some kind of electrical thing toouching another thing that makes all things squeal unless my fingers are in contact with metal. Am wondering should I reverse the ground and the other wire, or maybe it's just a product of the fact that I haven't soldered the joins at the jack.
Thought for a moment or seven that I had lost the electronics cover. Also, the tone pot has some kind of mechanical problems, so I'm gonna have to replace it at some point. The action on this guitar is too high, but I'm afraid of lowering the saddle heights because the pickups are really high, ad you can't lower them--without routing out more of the guitar than I even care to do. I'll try the saddles, and see if the sound gets too fucked because of the proximity to the pickups.
See, if you get the strings too close to the pickups, which are big ol' magnets, you lose sustain and clarity to your sound, because the magnetic field will fuck up the string's free vibration. I'm sincerely hoping that my little care packages will show up soon, from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shrijani and my cousin, each sending me slices of their talentability, although only one of them lives in Kansas.
I'm also going to have to set the intonation on this one, as I never did previously, noting all the other defects to playablilty first, and the way things are running, I may have to block the tremolo completely to keep the strings from going out of tune from my hamhanded playing. At least I'm not the only one who beats the shit out of their strings--the Young brothers, well, at least Malcolm and Angus, anyway, knock hell out of their strings and axes--they say it's the only way to get the most out of them. 'Course they play heavier gauge strings than me, too--and they rock, whereas I only fiddlefart.
I'm quite curious as to whether or not Kirk Hammet still plays using two different sets of strings on his guitar...anybody know the answer to that one?
By the way, if you don't know these names, don't ask me about them as I will only move very far away from you, and eye you askance. I will answer any other questions, of course.
Thought for a moment or seven that I had lost the electronics cover. Also, the tone pot has some kind of mechanical problems, so I'm gonna have to replace it at some point. The action on this guitar is too high, but I'm afraid of lowering the saddle heights because the pickups are really high, ad you can't lower them--without routing out more of the guitar than I even care to do. I'll try the saddles, and see if the sound gets too fucked because of the proximity to the pickups.
See, if you get the strings too close to the pickups, which are big ol' magnets, you lose sustain and clarity to your sound, because the magnetic field will fuck up the string's free vibration. I'm sincerely hoping that my little care packages will show up soon, from
shrijani and my cousin, each sending me slices of their talentability, although only one of them lives in Kansas.I'm also going to have to set the intonation on this one, as I never did previously, noting all the other defects to playablilty first, and the way things are running, I may have to block the tremolo completely to keep the strings from going out of tune from my hamhanded playing. At least I'm not the only one who beats the shit out of their strings--the Young brothers, well, at least Malcolm and Angus, anyway, knock hell out of their strings and axes--they say it's the only way to get the most out of them. 'Course they play heavier gauge strings than me, too--and they rock, whereas I only fiddlefart.
I'm quite curious as to whether or not Kirk Hammet still plays using two different sets of strings on his guitar...anybody know the answer to that one?
By the way, if you don't know these names, don't ask me about them as I will only move very far away from you, and eye you askance. I will answer any other questions, of course.
