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From: rbanksjr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Richard E. Banks Jr.)
Subject: Dave's fuzz box from hell corrected version
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Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 01:18:09 GMT

I built the fuzz box that Dave posted (the corrected version), but when
I tested it, it did not work.  Now I need the net's help.
Dave, Mark Hamer, are you listening?  Good.

I hope you still have a copy of the schematic somewhere.
I replaced the 68k resistor with a 100k resistor.

The resistor on the feedback loop is not a 330k but a 440k.
Could that have narrowed the bandwidth to much?

Also I hope I did not put the Zener diodes in backwards.
The diodes are to be connected back to back, I have the rings sides
pointing out towards the circuit, not each other.  Is that right?

On the supply splitter junction, one of those resistors were supposed to
be a 200k not 220k, right?

And on the input jack, both connectors are attached to the 47pF
lead, right?

That's all I can think of that might be wrong with the board design.
Now lets talk construction:

I used 24 awg solid core hook-up wire.  I am not very skilled at
circuit construction yet, so everything is not really tightly packed
and a few of the wires are relatively long.  

The board makes a very small hum when turned on, but does not amplify
any sound through at all.

If you have any idea what could have gone wrong please reply.
And if you have ever built a distortion box before reply anyway, I have
some questions to ask.

Thanks.  Rich Banks.
From: lturner@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Louis Turner)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Bass Player Wanted!!
Summary: Bass Player Wanted!!
Keywords: Bass Player Jersey
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:56:10 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

"Dirty Lies" is searching for a new bass player.  We are in North and Central
New Jersey.  We cover everything from Elvis (both dead and alive) to the 
Violent Femmes.  This includes REM, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Cracker, Blind Faith, 
Beatles, Jimmy Buffet, The Clash, The Church, Wilson Picket, etc... 

Must be available for weekly practice and for weekend gigs. Have transportation
and equipment.  We will adjust practice schedual and location to needs.  

Contact me, Hamp Turner, by e-mail or at 908-771-9682.  

Party on Garth! Party on Wayne!
Newsgroups: alt.guitar,misc.forsale
From: kmink@hubcap.clemson.edu (Kenneth S Mink)
Subject: 4sale washburn hollow-body elctric guitar(Gibson 335-type)
Summary: My friend is selling his washburn hollow-body electric guitar. It i
Keywords: forsale guitar washburn
      
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:17:48 GMT

     This guitar is a Washburn made Oscar-schmidt OE-20. The body of the guitar is the same as that of the Gibson 335; the same as B.B. King, Chuck Berry, etc. Double cut-away, F-holes, two Hummbucker pick-ups (2 vol., 2 tone knobs), and is a natural pine with a clear gloss finish and pearl trim. It is just shy of one year old and has no scratches. financial difficulties and need to unregrettably sell. Asking $250 obo.

   This posting is for a friend. Please reply to email. Reply may be slow, but will reply.

kmink@hubcap.clemson.edu
From: WAUGH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Gibson's sales policy
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:51:09 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

A very strange thing happened to me yesterday.  I went into a local guitar
emporium (Gelb Music in Redwood City, CA) with intent to check on prices and
availability of Les Paul Customs.  I yearn for a Heritage Cherry sunburst LPC
with three pickups.  Strange I know, but I am the strange one.  So, I figure
I'll go in, ask if a triple pickup Custom is available as a special order item
and what the damages might be.  If it is a no go, then what do the garden
variety HCSB Customs fetch in today's slumping retail market.

At this point the salesperson, who I know to be wise in the ways of the music
biz, informs me that Gibson is limiting the number of Les Paul Customs to
dealers who will commit to a set number of L-5s, Super 400s, Byrdlands and the
like.  I figure the clerk isn't just blowing hot air my way as a quick perusal
of the store's stock reveals plenty of Les Paul Standards, 1960 reissues, Les
Paul Studios and an ES-335 or two BUT NOT A SINGLE CUSTOM.

I don't know about you but my circle of guitar players doesn't include anyone
who even wants a Super 400 much less could afford the $5,000.00 or so bucks
they cost.  I also have NEVER met a guitarist who EVER yearned after a Byrdland
and its shortened scale length.  It is also true that I only know one serious
jazz player and he plays an Epiphone Howard Roberts anyway.

So what in the wide, wide world of sports is Gibson doing anyway.  Are they
seriously thinking of using one of their best selling instruments to lever
dealers into stocking some of their worst selling instruments?  Do they imagine
they can forcibly create a market where none exists?  Are raindrops falling on
my head?

Has anyone else in netland run up against this marketing ploy?  Or is Gelb just
trying to whine away the reason they don't have a LPC in stock?  Inquiring
minds want to know.

As a corollary, does anyone out there have a triple pickup Les Paul Custom for
sale?  It doesn't have to be Heritage Cherry sunburst but it would be nice if
it was...

Brian Waugh                       |    "What's for dinner?"
WAUGH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU    |        Mary Ford
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: plummer@den.mmc.com (Mike Plummer)
Subject: Re: Hollowbody f-hole guitar wanted
Originator: plummer@figueroa
Organization: Martin Marietta Astronautics, Denver
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 22:43:05 GMT


I just thought I would second the opinion on the Gibson ES-125.  I've had one 
since I was 12 years old. (first guitar).  It's a ES-125T made in 1957.  It's
beautiful sounding guitar and not bad to look at.  The only drawback to it is
the fact it doesn't have a cutaway body.  If your a serious jazz player you
might find that restrictive.

Good Luck,
Mike Plummer
From: procopio@graphics.cis.upenn.edu (Joseph L. Procopio)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Bartolini Pickups
Date: 10 Oct 92 22:16:10 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: UPENN Computer Graphics Research Laboratory
In-reply-to: m713@hosp.med.umich.edu's message of 8 Oct 92 15:38:19 GMT


Here's the address you need:

	Bartolini Pickups and Electronics
	P.O. Box 934
	Livermore, CA 94550

	(415) 443-1037

	
					procopio@graphics.cis.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: gardar@grun.is (Gardar Runolfsson)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: selmer truvoice
Date: 8 Oct 92 10:41:36 GMT
Organization: G.Run hf

Hi netters.

I Have just laid my hands on a SELMER TRUVOICE concord ten amp
and it really look OLD. It sounds great. There are 5 tubes in it
and I would like to put new ones in but I can't make out which
tubes it are.

Can anyone out there help me out.
-- 

Regards
Gardar Runolfsson
gardar@grun.is
From: dpm@msc.edu (David Mottaz)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Boss expression pedal
Date: 15 Oct 92 13:46:47 GMT
Organization: Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Minneapolis, MN


I have a Boss Dynamic Filter stompbox that I gets lots of use but
anyways I have a question.  There is a provision on this to plug
in an expression pedal and then use this as a wah.  Exactly what
is an expression pedal?  Is it more than just a potentiometer?
If it is just a potentiometer, what is it's value?

Thanks a ton...

-Dave
From: v064myby@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Christophe J Quaranta)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: calluses
Date: 10 Oct 92 03:09:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


	I'd like to know something. I've been playing guitar for about 
5 years.  When I first started I developed hard calluses on my fingers.
I'm playing more now than I ever did, yet the calluses seem to have 
disappeared.  Is this normal? - note that there's no pain when I play.
							Latre,
							'Q'
From: math1rb@jane.uh.edu (92F07486)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Effects Loop
Date: 13 Oct 92 12:16:00 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

One thing that I found out, is that even with only 2 or 3 effects, the amp
itself (and its settings) may determine which order the effects sound best.
As I believe somebody mentioned earlier there is no "right" or "wrong" way to
do order your effects. But one should go through and analyze what each 
effect is physically doing to your sound. One of the best resources I
ever saw that described (and graphically depicted) what each each effect
does to the guitar signal was in an Ibanez effect catalog years ago, but
I've since lost it. BTW my Ibanez Tubescreamer Classic was great for a
couple of years, but I think too much abuse killed it.

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**                            **                                      **
**   David C. Meyers          **  "I'm looking California,            **
**                            **    and feeling Minnesota..."         **
**   MATH1RB@JETSON.UH.EDU    **                  - Cornell           **
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Newsgroups: alt.guitar,rec.music.makers
From: elliott@ncrcol.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Elliott New)
Subject: How to amplify a metal body National
Originator: elliott@ncrcol.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM
Organization: NCR E&M Columbia SC.
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 12:46:16 GMT


Any suggestions on how to amplify an old 1934 National steel guitar?
I'd like some kind of transducer or something like that.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Elliott New
Newsgroups: alt.guitar,alt.guitar.tab
From: schubert@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Alex Schubert)
Subject: Re: CHOPRO to ASCII Text conversion?
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 15:27:46 GMT


There is another program available that converts files in the chopro
format to plain asci. What's more it is able to transpose as well.
It's called xpose   and yesterday it was reposted by me to
alt.guitar.tab. So check out there for details.

Have fun

Alex

-
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From: Michael.P.Colburn@dartmouth.edu (Michael P. Colburn)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Volume pedal into amp's effect loop?!
Date: 9 Oct 92 00:19:34 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0a5@newshost.dartmouth.edu

It should work fine...I've use two different Morley Wah-Volume pedals
(one battery powered, one AC) with several different
amps/guitars/effects and the only problems I encountered were traceable
to the pedals (in particular, ear piercing high gain on the Wah setting
with the AC powered pedal).  The main reason I use the pedals is for
overall hands free volume control and a reverse gating-type effect done
by quickly increasing volume right after picking a note.  Of course,
it's always handy (are more professional) to be able to tune your axe
without having to unplug/turn off something in order to keep the signal
from coming through your amp.  Hope this is of some help...
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: cstracha@cs1.uct.ac.za (CD STRACHAN)
Subject: Re: 60 cycle single pickup hum
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 07:21:29 GMT

In article <13199@fennig> fennig@fennig (Kurt Fennig) writes:
>From: fennig@fennig (Kurt Fennig)
>Subject: 60 cycle single pickup hum
>Date: 9 Oct 92 15:34:56 GMT
>I just bought a '57 Fender Stratocaster reissue.  Naturally, it has 3 single
>coil pickups which produce a 60 cycle hum when the pickup's are individually
>selected.  Does anyone know any electronic wiring modifications to reduce the
>hum?
>Thanks- Kurt

Put a small capacitor accross the live and the earth.
(OF YOUR GUITAR, NOT THE MAINS)
This can be done in the guitar, or inside the plug of the lead. 
100pF (NOT electrolytic) should do the trick.

 From: Craig Strachan                  DPS: are you in ?
       UCT, South Africa
       strachan@bilbo.cs.uct.ac.za 
       cstracha@cs1.uct.ac.za
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: crmilton@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Christopher Robert MILTON)
Subject: WANTED: Information/Advice on Amplifiers (Fender etc)
Summary: I want to buy a new amp - any suggestions?
Keywords: Amps, Fender
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 04:12:52 GMT


Hi,

	I just wondered if anyone could give me some advice about buying a new
amp. I want to upgrade at the end of the year (from a pretty poor 65 watt Ross
amp) to something a bit better.

Some details on what I'm looking for :

Price : $AUS 1000-1500 (note the Australian dollars - $US 0.70 ~= $AUS 1.0)
		       (note also that I want a new amp, not 2nd hand)

Power : 100-150 watts

Effects : 

I'm not really interested in inbuilt effects (they're normally not
as good!) and I have a heap of pedals anyway... I'd probably prefer
an amp which only had a "straight" channel - that's right, I'm not
after overdrive/distortion/etc as my Boss Metal Zone gives me ANY
sound I really want (though someone might advise me to change this
policy of "want-no-inbuilt-effects"). In summary, I'm more interested in 
getting an amp with a nice straight/clean sound then one with a heap
of effects.

What I've looked at so far :

Not much... Though I've been impressed with Fender amps (a friend has a Deluxe
85 which sounds great but isn't what I'm after - I want more watts for one!) 
and I've heard about one Fender amp that's about 100-150 watts - it came as a
separate "head" and speaker box (about 15" speaker I think). Please note from
this that I know bugger all about Amps!!! 

Misc :

I have a Fender Stratocastor (Japanese not American!) and play rock 'n' roll
(what else?!?) but not heavy metal or excessively hard rock! 

Guess that's all I need say. Any replies (by email or by posting to news) would
be appreciated. I'm especially interested in hearing from other Australians
who might be able to tell me something good that I CAN get locally...

Thanks in advance,
Chris.

+----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|  Chris Milton.             |  email address -- crmilton@mundil.cs.mu.oz.au  |
|  Computer Science.         |                                                |
|  University of Melbourne.  |  "By the way, which one's Pink?" - Pink Floyd  |
+----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
From: miket@astro.umd.edu (Mike Tripicco)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: GFTPM collection for sale
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:06:15 GMT
Organization: U. of Maryland @ College Park, Astronomy

FOR SALE: "Guitar-For the Practicing Musician"; May 1986-->Sept 1990
           (missing only July '86, June '87); a total of 51 issues.
           All are in excellent condition.
  
PRICE: Best offer over $100. (Total cover price = $160; if bought as 
       back issues, you'd spend over $250). I'll pay shipping costs.

   ***No single issue sales---selling the whole collection only****
-- 
====================================================================
 Mike Tripicco   Astronomy Dep't, UMD, College Park MD 20742
    (301) 405-1548, 604-3814         Internet: miket@astro.umd.edu
====================================================================
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: ujhennin@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (James Henning)
Subject: Re: Jungle Love, Steve Miller, is it open tuning?
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:58:45 GMT

In article <7046@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> jmgst26+@pitt.edu (Joseph M Goodwin) writes:
>I've been trying to figure this one out, and I've come to the conclusion
>that this is not a standard tuning.  Is it open G or something?

  I haven't tried this one but it sounds like it is.  Try Swingtown,
that's in open G so you'll have two Steve Miller open G songs so it's
worth your while to tune down to open G.


Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: rbanksjr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Richard E. Banks Jr.)
Subject: Speed picking and heavy metal cord riffs
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 03:23:09 GMT


Question 1: What is your technique for speed picking single strings and
cords?  How do you hold the pick?  How hard do you pick?  I'm semi-new
to guitar playing and have been trying to peed pick but its not working
for me.


Question 2: Could someone send me some basic heavy-metal rhythm riffs that
I can practice and play.  Thanks.  Rich
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Speed picking and heavy metal cord riffs
From: haley@husc10.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley)
Date: 9 Oct 92 06:33:56 GMT

rbanksjr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Richard E. Banks Jr.) writes:


>Question 1: What is your technique for speed picking single strings and
>cords?  How do you hold the pick?  How hard do you pick?  I'm semi-new
>to guitar playing and have been trying to peed pick but its not working
>for me.
O.K Here's the deal from my perspective...
Hold the pick in you picking hand with the pick grasped between the
ball of Your thumb and the side of the first joint of your finger,
with said finger curled back most of the way to your palm. Your
fingers should point back along your arm, and your hand is relaxed.
You should pull back on your thumb slightly to secure the pick as
opposed to squeezing it... The key is relaxation, cause you're going
to start to do hard work,and you need to be very efficient.
This is the method recommended by Robert Fripp (King Krimson)

As to the speed part... Building up the speed is mainly a matter of
practice, and making sure you aren't picking too deeply.
I personnally use Jim Dunlop Nylon Picks for their wear and
flexibility, but if your prefer the brighter sound of harder picks, I
suggest you buy a lot of them, I went through many before finding the Nylons.

Anyway, pick a string, say the 6th (that being the lowest sounding)
And pick it doing sixteeth notes at about quarter=120 (120 beats a
minutes)  It is vitally important that you *double pick*
Then move up to 168/m
Then when that is comforatable set it on 188 on up, then move back
down to about 80 or 100 and play 32 notes...
(Obviously I expect you to have a metronome)
>Question 2: Could someone send me some basic heavy-metal rhythm riffs that
>I can practice and play.  Thanks.  Rich
Find some old Polka tunes and play them at four times the speed
listed.
Poof! you're playing Thrash... :-)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: mills+@cs.cmu.edu (Michael Mills)
Subject: sad1024 chip availability?
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 07:08:43 GMT


a lot of cheap 70s time-based effects used the reticon sad1024 chip.
does anyone know if it's still available anywhere, or if anyone made
a workable substitute?
                                                        thanx,
								mdm


-- 
        m.d.mills		interviewer: what kind of guitars do you play?
 dept.of.computer.science       stevie ray vaughan: they're wood.
carnegie.mellon.university
   pittsburgh.pa.15213
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: raellero@vela.acs.oakland.edu (ELLERO ROGER A)
Subject: amp question
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 00:46:43 GMT

Just a question:

Will I damage my guitar amp (60 watt, 12" speaker tube combo) if I play
my bass (passive pickups) through it?

Thanks.

raellero@vela.acs.oakland.edu
From: stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (Steve X. Portigal)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Keith Richards and Open G tuning
Date: 13 Oct 1992 08:16:02 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


  I know Keith plays with open G tuning, I've got my guitar like that,
and I can do really well jsut by barring any of the frets. However, it's
getting a little limited. Does anyone have any useful chord shapes or
stadard fingerings for Open G, especialy in connection with any
songs of keith on his own (off of Talk is cheap, a GREAT disc) or
any Stones songs...I'm specifically interested in simple open-G tuning
stuff, working my way from the bottom to more complicated stuff..
 
thanks,
 
steve Portigal
stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Friday, 16 Oct 1992 13:43:04 PST
From: <WAUGH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Greater Southwest Guitar Show

In article <1992Oct16.193126.6248@ods.com>, kurt@ods.com (Kurt Taylor) says:
>
>Well it is time again for the world's largest vintage guitar show - Oct. 17 &
>18th at the Arlington Convention Center - (Dallas/Ft.Worth)
>
>I am going and I cannot wait.
>
A few years back a photo album of instruments at the show was published under
the name of "Guitars, Guitars, Guitars."  I managed to snag a copy and have
found it an invaluable resource.

If you have never heard of this show, it is one BIG deal.  I heard that some of
the prices were high, but they have EVERYTHING.  If you can manage it, do go.
It'll be worth the journey.  If you can't manage the trip try to find the
catalog.  It will take a honored place in your library of great guitar books.

Brian Waugh                       |    "What's for dinner?"
WAUGH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU    |        Link Wray
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: pkor@phoenix (Pasi Korhonen)
Subject: Re: I want it, I need it, but there ain't no way I'm ever gonna get it
Organization: Ripoff Industries
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:40:45 GMT

>I even called Gibson and they won't give me a clear reason why I can't find it.

	But they said that they make it ? Did you try to talk to them about
	their custom shop and if it makes lefty Gibsons to other people
	than Elliott Easton and Cesar Rosas ? I've never seen a lefty 335
	myself. Sure hope it exists....

	Pasi

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From: gutzmann@acri.fr (Kurt Gutzmann)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Classical/Jazz: duets?
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:13:06 GMT
Reply-To: gutzmann@acri.fr
Organization: Advanced Computer Research Institute

In article 61@underdog.ee.wits.ac.za, loon@underdog.ee.wits.ac.za (LOON M J) writes:
>
>Has anyone got great Jazz, Classical or Spanish duets?
>in which the one taking a breath is called the listener.

Chris Standring has published a collection of Jazz tunes arranged for
classical guitar, albeit for solo guitar.  I have heard, but not seen,
arrangments of the various Danzas Espanolas (Grenados, et al) for two guitars.
Somewhere, I think have some guitar duets for classical guitar, although
the pieces are a little obscure.  I'll check on it post again, with the
titles/publishers for the stuff.

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