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From: kimple@vax.muskingum.edu
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: pickups
Date: 29 Sep 92 03:18:44 GMT
Organization: Muskingum College

In article <1992Sep25.151337.24758@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>, ken@batman.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach) writes:
> johns@uuisis.isis.org (john smith) posts:
> 
> #For humbuckers, schallers are my favorite.. Excellent output 
> #and Old style Gisbon sound.
> 
> 
> I can't believe someone else likes these! I have one in an
> old beat up Kramer Baretta, and it's one of the best-sounding
> pickups I've ever heard. I keep trying to find another one to
> drop in one of my other guitars, but nobody can get them. I've
> even offered to buy a used one that might be laying around in
> the back of some luthier's shop/music store. I just can't find
> another one!
> 
> Cool - I'm not crazy.....

Actually, you CAN  get these -Stewart MacDonald sells 'em. You  know what?
The Pickups that Gibson is selling as the PAF or whatever is THIS VERY 
pickup - i have it on VERY good authority. If you want the Stewart Mac address,
let me know.  They're real reasonable on the price of these.
> 
> 
> THIS POSTING DOES NOT REPRESENT THE OPINIONS OF MY EMPLOYERS.
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> "... watch from high atop Tokyo Tower as the twisted world
> you created explodes in rivers of blood and endless pain..."
>     -Tom Servo, announcer, monster action playset commercial
> -------------------------------------------------------------


Cool quote...can I get a sample of this?

jd
that's MR. "I have  little musical finesse"   to YOU!
From: haley@husc10.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Help! Tension forces in the strings?
Date: 29 Sep 92 09:46:39 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

Extra info for use with formulas:
A standard set of tensions, from a set of D'Addarios XL140's I happen to have here next to me...

	Diameter	Tension*
Note	 in mm		 in kg
--------------------------------
E	0.25		7.55
B	0.33		7.10
G	0.43		7.78
D	0.76		11.24
A	1.07		12.04
E	1.32		10.35

* 25-1/2" (648 mm) scale length is used. 
[For them that doesn't know scale length is the length from the nut to
the bridge... ]
{For those that noticed the Jump in Diameters, thse are
D'Addario Lite Top/Heavy Bottom Strings, kinda like Ernie Ball
Hybrids. Yes indeed, that Hybrid sound with That D'Addario Tone.
No I don't work for D'Addario or Ernie Ball, but any company that
gives yoy cow stickers is cool with me...
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Tuesday, 6 Oct 1992 08:55:54 PST
From: <WAUGH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Looking for words/chords to a Badfinger song
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Oct6.132457.13752@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>, acura@cbnewsi.cb.att.com
(james.r.feeney) says:
>
>I'm looking for the words and chords to a Badfinger song. I don't know the
>title, but I believe the first verse starts with "No matter where you are...".
>
>Anybody know this one?
>
>Jim Feeney
>
"No Matter What"  by Badfinger.  The memory fails but it shouldn't be too hard
to locate as the group put out only three albums before their chief writer, and
guitarist I believe, was killed in an automobile accident in England.  They
also did the soundtrack for "The Magic Christian" with Peter Sellers and Ringo
Starr (a VERY funny film) and wrote Nilssons Grammy-winning single "Without
You."

No matter where you are
I will always be with you
No matter what you do girl, ooh girl
With you

No matter where you are
I will always be around
Won't you tell me what you found girl, ooh girl
With you

Knock down the old grey walls
Be a part of it all
Nothing to say, nothing to see, nothing to do
If you would give your all
I would give it to you you
Nothing to be, nothing to be, nothing to be

No matter what you do
I will always be around
Won't you tell me what you found girl, ooh girl
With you

(or something like that)

Brian
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: rstern@col.hp.com (Richard Stern)
Subject: Wilkenson Roller Nut
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 14:44:04 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

Does anyone know where to buy a Wilkenson (sp?) Roller Nut??  This is the
nut that comes on the Fender Strat Plus.

Richard Stern
rstern@col.hp.com
From: loh@mtl.mit.edu (Vincent Kwok-Shiang Loh)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Guitars/Amps For Sale (Ibanez, Kramer)
Date: 27 Sep 92 18:30:28 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories


	'89 Ibanez RoadStar II Guitar (blue), 
	  1 humbucker, 2 single coils, Floyd Rose, 
	  w/ hard case
	  -excellent condition, virtually unused.	$220

	'88 Kramer Focus Strat (white), w/ hard case 	$310
	  -excellent condition

	'87 Fender Champ 12 Amp, white snakeskin exterior
	  -excellent condition, hardly used, looks new	$190

	'90 Yamaha RBX300 Bass Guitar (white), w/soft case 
	  -excellent condition, virtually unused	$280
				

Please contact loh@mtl.mit.edu	617-570-3545 (day)
				617-926-5567 (night)
From: weidmann@disuns2.epfl.ch (Nicolas Weidmann)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Strat pickups
Date: 27 Sep 92 00:27:02 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne


		What is the difference in the kind of sound produced
	by the Texas special pickups and those used on the vintage
	reissues ?
From: ddavis@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Donald Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Help needed on playing by ear...
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:39:02 GMT
Organization: The YYZ Concern

Hello Fellow Hackers and Slashers!

My guitar skills fall short of what I'd like in many ways, but I'd really like
to improve my playing by ear.  I can usually manage to pickup short phrases or
easy pieces (though I often later get the tab and learn I wasn't quite on),
but what really gives me grief is picking out chords.  

How exactly does one tell a G from a G/F#,G/D,G5,Gsus2, etc???  Some chords
have a characteristic sound that I can recognize reasonable easily (Suspended
4ths come to mind), but how does one navigate the maze of 7ths, 9ths, 11ths,
13ths, major, minor, augmented, suspended, etc....to make it sound just like
the record?

Also, any tips on how to pick out the notes in those blazing fast solos??

					-- Thanking you in advance
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: dcovell@intelhf.hf.intel.com (David Covell)
Subject: Re: Stratocaster a'la Warmoth?
Organization: Development Tools Operation, Intel Corp., Hillsboro  OR
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 20:48:08 GMT

ohtonen@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi writes:

>I got a catalog of Warmoth guitar products.
>They seem to sell every part what a bolt-on neck guitar
>requires except microphones. The changing neck radius got me interested.
>Has any of you or your friends made or played a guitar using Warmoth's stuff?
>I think Warmoth makes quality, but is that just a slogan?

I can't vouch for the rest of their products, but I have one of their compound
radius necks on a frankenstein strat (assembled from parts from different
manufacturers, that is) and I highly recommend it. Solves the problem of
fretting out on bends above the 12th fret. It actually plays better than my
Les Paul, which is saying a lot. Nice piece of maple, too.

>Is it (building) worth the trouble?

It's not that much trouble. The only tricky part is the critical neck-heel
fit, and you may want to have a luthier tweak that for you. Wiring up the
pickups is easy (if you can solder, that is) since the pickup manufacturer
will supply a schematic. It's the best way to get exactly the components
and color you want. If you like natural-type finishes you can have a unique
look by blending several different colors of wood stain to get the exact
color you want and then apply a tung oil seal coat. Mine's a distinctive
honey-blonde color with a slight gloss, with the swamp ash grain really
highlighted. Lots of possibilities...

>Is there other comparable guitar part manufacturers?

WD is pretty similar, though I doubt they make compound radius necks.
Good luck, and have fun!

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From: rstern@col.hp.com (Richard Stern)
Subject: Re: Building your own (ONBOARD PREAMP!)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:08:30 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

till@acid-rain.lucid.com (Don Tillman) writes:

[more discussion of FET vs op-amp preamps]

> So these are gonna sound different.  I find the op-amp sound irritating,
> although others may not mind, and still others may actually prefer it.  The
> musician decides which they prefer and makes the most of it.

I'd find it very hard to believe that you can really tell the difference.
Maybe you can, but I know that I cannot.  I have Mike's op-amp design
in my guitars, and one of them has a switch to bypass the pre-amp.  With
the guitar volume control on 10, I cannot hear any difference between
bypass or not.  When I roll the volume control down, the pre-amp preserves
the high-end, and in bypass there is a noticable roll-off of highs. 

Your signal is coming from a guitar pickup with limited bandwidth, going into
a guitar amplifier that is far from accurate and has limited bandwidth, and
then going into a guitar speaker that adds it's own distortion.  Now tell me
that putting an op-amp follower (buffer! No gain) in the signal path changes
the signal enough for it to be irritating. Very hard for me to believe.

We're not talking about digital (or high end analog) audio and hi-fidelity
amps and accurate speakers etc. In these cases, I'm sure the op-amp
limitations show up very clearly.  But this is not rec.audio.high-end.
This is wreck.plug.it.in.and.crank.it.up :-)!

Richard Stern
rstern@col.hp.com

FWIW, I'll probably build one of your FET designs just to see if I can
hear a difference.  Maybe I'll surprise myself.
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: pquince@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Quince)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Experienced beginners & endurance problems
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:46:34 GMT
Organization: Image Analysis Systems Group, JPL

bt979@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeff Preston) writes:

>does anyone know of some specific exercises for the major
>muscles in the hand (specifically, the one which moves the thumb and the one
>which enables the pinky to move towards the thumb and the thumbward side of
>the hand) which build strength and endurance, or is this a question best
>posed to a guitar instructor?  

I can tell you what my instructor has me doing for starters.  It is called
an isometric chord exercise.  Pick a chord shape; I am doing e-barre for now.
Assuming a RH guitar player, put your left hand in position on the f major
e-barre chord.  With your right hand, play the entire chord arpeggiated, 
sounding each string.  You want to play all strings cleanly with no fret
buzz.  For a beginner like me this requires a lot of straining.  Once the
chord is sounded, release your left hand and flex it/shake it out.  Then
replace it on the f# chord.  Continue to g, g#, etc... repeat the process up 
10 or twelve frets, then back down again to make one lap.  It is important 
to shake out your hand after each chord.

Doing this exercise at a lap per day for a month has helped my hand strength
a lot, and it is also constructive in that it teaches my hand to remember
the chord shape.  The slower you do the exercise, the tougher it gets.
Hope this is useful.  

pquince
--

If you can't kill me, stop wasting my time!
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: fullerto@mostaccioli.cis.ohio-state.edu (timothy dwight fullerton)
Subject: Re: MIDI and the future of guitar
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:42:44 GMT

In article <6503@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> jmgst26+@pitt.edu (Joseph M Goodwin) writes:
>I'm not that familiar with MIDI, and I have a question.  I understand that
>MIDI allows you to interface your instrument to a PC.  Can PC's now store
>analog guitar sounds digitally, and if so, can you send them over standard
>networks (internet, for ex)?  That would be so cool if guitarists could do 
>this and be able to listen to others works.
>
>Think how easy it would be to get your music heard nationwide.  Kinda like
>a shareware music library!  If this isn't available now, how feasible is it in the near future, with Multimedia and all?
>
>Mike



	Yes, computers can make CD quality recordings. The only 
impracticality of your idea is that the files are enormous. One megabyte 
will be swallowed up within several seconds of recording.

	As an alternative, midi files are more standardized and much 
smaller. This is, by the way, nothing like digital audio recording. All 
midi information can do is drive a synthesizer or otherwise trigger some 
piece of hardware like signal processors or lights.

	I don't know what your hardware requirements are. I have a Mac and 
it just does it out of the box. There must be, without a doubt, some 
sort of digital audio recording card for a PC though.

	Good Luck :-)

	Tim.
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: scrxlt@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (DAVID OLSZEWSKI)
Subject: FOR SALE - Electric Acoustic
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Distribution: usa
Date:  1 Oct 1992 08:18 EST  

	**** MISCELLANEOUS BAND EQUIPMENT FOR SALE ****

	Yamaha APX SPL I	Acoustic Electric Guitar
	Burnt Orange w/ Flamed Maple Top and Hard Shell Case.
	$ 275.00 .... MAKE OFFER

	Yamaha APX9-12		Acoustic Electric 12 String
	Black w/ Stereo Inputs and Hard Shell Case.
	$ 475.00 .... MAKE OFFER

	Peavey Odyssey		Electric Guitar
	Les Paul Style,  Red w/ Maple Top,  24 Frets,  2 Humbuckers
	Gold Hardware and Hard Shell Case.
	$ 325.00 .... MAKE OFFER

	Peavey Backstage Chorus 208	25 Watt Practice Amp
	2-8 inch Speakers,  Clean and Distortion Channels,  Reverb
	and Chorus,  w/ Foot Switch.
	$ 225.00 .... MAKE OFFER

		All items are like new and in the best possible condition.  
	Serious inquiries only please.  I'll pay for 50 to 100% of shipping 
	costs if sale is made immediatley.

	NONE OF THIS EQUIPMENT HAS BEEN ABUSED .... IT HAS HARDLY BEEN USED
	*******************************************************************



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Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: scrxlt@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (DAVID OLSZEWSKI)
Subject: PRICES REDUCED on Guitars
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Distribution: usa
Date:  2 Oct 1992 08:57 EST  

	**** MISCELLANEOUS BAND EQUIPMENT FOR SALE ****

   		 ALL PRICES WERE JUST LOWERED
------------------------------------------------------------------------

	Yamaha APX SPL I	Acoustic Electric Guitar
	Burnt Orange w/ Flamed Maple Top and Hard Shell Case.
	was $ 275.00 	.... 	now $ 225.00

	Yamaha APX9-12		Acoustic Electric 12 String
	Black w/ Stereo Inputs and Hard Shell Case.
	was $ 475.00 	.... 	now $ 425.00

	Peavey Odyssey		Electric Guitar
	Les Paul Style,  Red w/ Maple Top,  24 Frets,  2 Humbuckers
	Gold Hardware and Hard Shell Case.
	was $ 325.00 	.... 	now $ 275.00

	Peavey Backstage Chorus 208	25 Watt Practice Amp
	2-8 inch Speakers,  Clean and Distortion Channels,  Reverb
	and Chorus,  w/ Foot Switch.
	was $ 225.00 	.... 	now $ 175.00

	All items are like new and in the best possible condition.  
		VERY SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY PLEASE.

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Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: META000 <META@UNB.CA>
Subject: RE: Chorus probs and Fuzzzzzz!
Organization: The University of New Brunswick
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 22:35:51 GMT

In article <1992Sep26.170805.11045@waikato.ac.nz> gjat@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>Two Questions :
>
>1) - Why does my Chorus (Its a Ibanez 'rock and play' unit (cheap I know but
>I'm a student)) give a high pitch squeal before I get feedback.  And its not
>just a single tone, it seems to squel up, and then jump down and squel down
>(if you get my drift).  Is there anything I can do about this, do all Choruses
>do this or is it just due to the 'rock and play' set up with Distortion and
>Chorus built in to the one unit.
>
Analog delay effects such as your chorus, employ chips that contain
two parallel delay sections.  The sound is moved through the chip,
step by step, via a high-frequency clock.  The whine you hear is
that clock.  Normally, the two delay sections on the chip, when
combined, result in a cancellation of the clock sound because the
clock in one section is out of phase with the other.  There is
generally a little trim-pot right beside the delay chip (my guess is
to look for a MM3007 or similar number chip, madeby Matsushita)
which needs to be adjusted so that the two sections are combined in
equal amounts.  This is NOT the same as the trimpot that adjusts the
level going INTO the chip.  If you adjust the trimpot and the chorus
disappears, then you've changed the one going IN, notthe one coming
out.If there are two equal value resistors coming out the chip,
instead of atrimpot, you might consider replacing them with a
trimpot, or perhaps equal value resistors, but 1% instead of the 10%
tolerance ones they probably used.  My only other guess is that the
path the clock follows is not well-shielded, and you're picking up
the clock signal some other way (the same as picking up hum on your
pickups depending on how you face).

Hope this helps.
From: ttesta@dempr0.enet.dec.com (Tom Testagrossa)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: CORAL Electric Sitar
Date: 1 Oct 92 17:03:49 GMT
Reply-To: ttesta@dempr0.enet.dec.com (Tom Testagrossa)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Ma.


In article <1992Sep24.221117.1041@wilbur.coyote.trw.com>, jost@walt.coyote.trw.com (Patrick Jost) writes:
|>
|>I'm interested (possibly) in buying a Coral Electric Sitar. Any ideas?
	Yes, 1st sell EVERYthing you own....
Seriously, call a few vintage dealers who have some of these things lying
around and ask about them, how much etc...(that ought to cure that interest pretty quick!) I doubt many of us has had experiance with these things...(though
I'm sure someone on the net not only has one, but got it years
ago at a yard sale for $40 too...the net is an amazing "place"...
Tom T
From: whc2993@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: New songs at Nevada
Date: 25 Sep 92 19:08:35 GMT
Reply-To: whc2993@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

Can anyone remind me what directory the new songs are in at Nevada.  I usually
go in and type cd pub/guitar.
								


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From: theo@cca.vu.nl (Theo Vermeer)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Satriani
Date: 29 Sep 92 09:56:39 GMT
Organization: VU Amsterdam - dienst CCA

chris@scan.genetik.uni-koeln.de (Christian Schetter) writes:

>you mentioned that satriani's The Extremist is in your opinion very
>similiar to Surfin with the alien. In my opinion you are right, when
>it comes to a few similar song structures. But the main difference is
>the way how it is played. On 'Surfin..' you always hear that Satriani
>played all parts and as a result everything sounds very artificial.
>Still I like his playing there. So my point is, that you hear the
>power of the band and the stimulation between them on the new album. 

I agree, in some interviews he said that a few songs were "composed"
at the time of "Surfin' ..". Later he worked all the ideas into this
new album. I think his playing is the same as "Surfin.." with the
techhnical background of "Flying..".

It's a great album.

Theo



















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Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: cmurray@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au (Christopher John Murray)
Subject: Re: Tube Screamer
Organization: University of Tasmania at Launceston
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 03:56:02 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.204219.5516@col.hp.com>, rstern@col.hp.com (Richard Stern) writes:
>
>>>BTW, I have the old TS10 and they are far superior to the TS9's.
>>>Haven't tried the TS5 yet though.
>> 
>> 	I too own the TS10 think its great. I never trid the TS9 or TS5
>> 	because everone said they don't sound as good as the TS10. The
>> 	TS10 is a faithful reproduction of the original Ibanez tube screamer.
>
>I'm confused.  I have 2 Tube Screamers.  One is at least 12 years old
>and it's a TS-808.  It has a tiny little square foot switch.  My other
>is a TS-9, and it's really old also (maybe 6+ years?).  I'm not sure if
>one sounds better than the other, since I have them at different settings.
>They both sound great though, IMHO.
>
>Can anyone provide a rundown of years and TS models??
>Is the TS-808 the "original Ibanez tube screamer"??
>

     And what is the new 'airodynamically designed' plastic tube screamer
     like??  The one with the ladybird shaped footswitch (and what number
     is it?)  (I think it part of Ibanez's 'Sound Tank' series)

                                                        Chris(Nash)