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From: 11439106@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (SHAWN FOO)
Subject: Re: Ibanez pickups hum
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 23:54:12 GMT

In article <01OCT92.17835628.0171@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA> META000 <META@UNB.CA> writes:
>
>If the flat-type has some advantages, I wonder why it is that no-one
>has produced a "stacked Jazzmaster" hum-rejecting pickup to fit
>inside a standard Gibson hum-bucker cavity.  That is, one set of
>pole-pieces running through two wide, flat coils, stacked on each
>other.  Seems to me thiswould be an ideal alternative for someone
>who wants the reverse retrofit (i.e., they started outwith a
>humbucker-sized hole, and now want a "single-coil sound", with
>hum-rejection) to what people usually ask for.  Admittedly a small
>market, but a market nonetheless.
>
>Mark
>

	DiMarzio makes a humbucker called `the Humbucker from Hell' and 
despite its name it actually is made to sound like a single coil with hum-
rejection....... never actually heard it myself, but......... 

	S.P. Foo
Organization: Sophomore, Architecture, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Date: Mon,  5 Oct 1992 12:58:17 -0400 
From: Marc Philip Sides <msb4+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Peavey Classic 20

On some post some guy wrote:

 
>In Ocala,Florida, at Parramore Music, I heard that they were going for about
>5 to 6 hundred dollars...
 
>Merlin

Surely this boy must be mad because my friend got a classic 50 over the
summer and it was a 4x10 amp and he paid only $550 for it.  There's no
way a single speaker amp could cost as much as this beast.  

Marc Sides
Sideez
From: mohawk@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Mohawk Dave)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: BASS TAB: Sanity by Bad Religion
Date: 2 Oct 92 15:31:26 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX


Bass for Bad Religion's "Sanity"

Estimated and typed by mohawk@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu               10/01/92

Play the figures below in the following sequence:

                PPQQ PQPQ PPPP RSRS T PPQQ PQPQ PPPP RSRS T PPQQ RSRS T


     127 bpm; quarter-note gets the beat; these are almost all eighths.


                    G -------------------------------------------------
Figure P:           D -------------------------------------------------
                    A -0--0--0--0--2--2--2--2--3--3--3--3--5--5--5--5--
                    E -------------------------------------------------


                    G -------5-----------7-----------------------------
Figure Q:           D ----7-----7-----9-----9--------10----------12----
                    A ----------------------------10----10----12----12-
                    E -5-----------7-----------8-----------10----------


                    G -------------------------------------------------
Figure R:           D -------------------------------------------------
                    A -------------------------------------------------
                    E -5--5--5--5--3--3--3--3--1--1--1--1--3-----3-----


                    G -------------------------------------------------
Figure S:           D -------------------------------------------------
                    A -------------------------------------------------
                    E -5--5--5--5--3--3--3--3--1--1--1--1--0-----0-----


                    G -------------------------------------------------
Figure T:           D -------------------------------------------------
                    A -------------------------------------------------
                    E -5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--3--3--3--3--3-----------


(I think this is how I play it, and it works, but who knows?)
From: whc2993@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Building Guitars
Date: 5 Oct 92 18:01:14 GMT
Reply-To: whc2993@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

I too thought about building a guitar from parts but once I saw the prices of
necks and bodies I decided it would be cheaper to find a manufactured guitar.

							Bill


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From: faulkner@acsu.buffalo.edu (Shane P. Faulkner)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: FOR SALE: great guitar capo
Date: 26 Sep 92 21:57:44 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: UB

I have a Kayser guitar capo for sale.  It's a great capo...  easy-to-use 
1 handed operation.  It fits any size neck, and never slips.  It's also
extremely well made.  

It's hardly ever been used... I lost my first one, immediately bought another
one, and proceded to find the original the next day.

I paid $16 for it.. I'll let it go for $12, and I'll ship it anywhere in
North America.

Reply by mail please.

-Shane Faulkner
From: al2e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Amy Ellen Lefkowitz)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: New songs at Nevada
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:02:08 GMT
Organization: Sophomore, H&SS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I would like to get into this file too.
What do I type on a Mac?

-amy ( -:
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: kew@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (steve.w.askew)
Subject: Re: Tube Screamer
Summary: TS-9
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:35:31 GMT

In article <92274.095242U58402@uicvm.uic.edu>, <U58402@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
> In article <1992Sep29.144530.12413@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, kew@cbnewsg.cb.att.com
> (steve.w.askew) says:
> >
> >        I have played thru a couple of diff TS-9's. Most guitar players
> >        are not impressed with the Tube Screamer. Its not a hot pedal.
> >        Most people want one because SRV used one. Then they try it
> >        and for some strange reason it doesnt sound the same! What the TS
> >        -5 is used for is to push the amp into distortion. The TS-5 does
> >        add some of its own distortion, but the amp is suppose to do most
> >        of the distorting.
> 
> If this is true, then why not just get a preamp box? It would also drive
 
	Well thats what a dirt pedal is. Its a battery powered preamp that 
	has the ability to :

	A) Amplify the signal level seen by the amp input. 

	B) modify the signal by distorting it before it leaves the stomp box. 

	C) And modify the tone if those controls are provided.

	There are a hundred dirt pedals out there and they all have a distinct
	sound. A TS-5 sounds nothing like a Boss Heavy Metal Pedal. We were 
	talking about comparing a reissue of a old pedal with its original,
	and how close they are in sound. My original post was to point
	out how that specific pedal was used in regards to the sound of
	the player most associated with that pedal

	The pedal lists for $49.00  and can be had for around $30.00. Most
	"preamps" go for over $200.00

> 
> Wilbur Pan
>  at the ever so friendly and personal univ. of ill. at chicago)

	Steve
	Doin That Blues ThAng!

Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: cdl0915@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Christian Dylan Losinger)
Subject: FET amp?
Reply-To: cdl0915@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:02:50 GMT


	Since FET amps are supposed to be smaller and better sounding, could
someone with a little Elec Engineering knowledge post a schematic? I really
don't have a clue as to how to design one of them myself...I'm a comp sci, not
an EE ...

	-c
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From: osminer@spot.Colorado.EDU (OSMINER MATTHEW COREY)
Subject: Re: Onboard preamps????
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 02:15:09 GMT

  Ok someone asked for something about why the one I have running
around is better.  Well for one it uses a little more juice than
your typical OpAmp IC.  You can build upwards to a 100Watt amplifier
with the right power source.  Secondly the response is a lot cleaner
and it doesn't distort nearly as bad as an OpAmp.  This is by no
means a professional quality deal we're talking about but maybe one
day I'll take apart my Marshall and doodle up a schematic for
the general public.  At any rate I'll see if I can find the 
circuit...
From: patrick.eckman@factory.com (Patrick Eckman)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: CFV: rec.music.classical
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:49:00 GMT
Reply-To: patrick.eckman@factory.com (Patrick Eckman)
Organization: Invention Factory's BBS - New York City, NY - 212-274-1243v.32bis


 DC. This is a Call For Votes for: "rec.music.classical.guitar"

How do those of us who access alt.guitar from a BBS vote? I don't
understand how to send E-mail over a BBS into Usenet.
---
 . JABBER v1.2 .
From: ken@batman.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: pickups
Date: 25 Sep 92 15:13:37 GMT
Reply-To: ken@austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach)
Organization: IBM Austin, TX

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.....


THIS POSTING DOES NOT REPRESENT THE OPINIONS OF MY EMPLOYERS.
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From: rg@futserv.austin.ibm.com (R.G. Keen)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Ibanez pickups hum
Date: 2 Oct 92 15:12:52 GMT
Reply-To: ...@cs.utexas.edu:ibmaus!auschs!tmn1.austin.ibm.com!tung
Organization: IBM Coporation - Advanced Workstations Division.

The voltage produced by a conductor moving in a magnetic field depends
on the speed 
of motion and the field strength (there are some other terms in the
equation, but 
I think these make no difference for this discussion). A guitar pickup
holds the 
conductor still and changes the magnetic field by varying the resistance
of the mag
field air path to the field by having a magnetic conductor - the string - move 
toward/away from the magnet poles, raising and lowering the field
strength across 
the electrical conductors in the coil. For a given change in field
strength, a turn
of wire in the changing field will produce a specific voltage,
irrespective of its
resistance as long as it is unloaded - little or no current flows. 	

The field distribution around a pickup pole would require some modelling
to get 
right, but ought to follow an inverse square law once you have described
the geometry
sufficiently. Turns closer to the magnets get more field strength, but
the field here
is affected less by the moving string. I don't know how to predict the
result short
of simulation.

For the geometry of a pickup coil, the resistance of a turn of wire is
reasonably 
constant per turn. For the sections of the winding across the strings,
the lengths
are constant. It is only the varying radius at the ends of the coil that
causes any
change in length at all. For a single-coil-pickup, with a 1/8" inner
radius and a 
1/4" outer radius at each end, the length variation from inside to
outside turns
is  (0.25 - 0.125)(3.14)(2)= 0.785". The total coil length is about
(2.5")(2) + 
(0.1875")(2) =  5.375" for an average turn. So the variation in
resistance between 
an inner and an outer turn is (roughly) -/+ 7.3%.

That assumes a perfectly wound coil, of course. Scramble winding will
add maybe 
another 2%., always upwards, since perfect lay windings represent
minimum lenght.

Net - resistance is not all that bad a way to match coil turns, but it is the 
number of turns that matters. 

An even better way to buck hum would be to take the two pickups to be matched, 
put them side by side in a hum field (not terribly difficult to find, right?)
and remove turns from the high resistance one until the hum is minimum.
From: kimple@vax.muskingum.edu
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Humbucker theory-ideas, other questions
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:46:09 GMT
Organization: Muskingum College


Okay, while we're on the subject, here's an idea I've had for sometime.

HOw 'bout we start winding a single coil pickup. Now, when we're abuot half way
thru, start another coil going the other way. Make these your two coils.
Is this sorta what someone else was saying?
Okay, anyways, Since the coils will probably be smaller that typical,
a preamp of sorts is probably in order. Right?

The main flaw I see is that We don't have the reverse-polarity part licked.
So, it won't be a true humbucker.  Will there be any cancellation?
Why don't I build it for the hell of it anyways to see what it's gonna
sound like? (I don't rightly know, besides I'm working more on amp mods
right now) Would the Pillsbury Doughboy step on glass and giggle?

In ther meantime, I'm real happy with the sound of my HotRails, except that
I can't seem to use cables longer than 12', which is why I'd like to 
build a buffer/preamp.

How 'bout if we built a tiny direct box in the guitar, and another at the
input of the amp, and we could use balanced cables? When I spoke
with Dan Torres about this some time ago, he said it could't be done,
though I think that it very well could. 

jd
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Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Read 8299 +++++++++++++
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:12:51 GMT
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

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From: balon@cup.hp.com (Tom Balon)
Subject: Re: Tube Screamer
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 23:07:17 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino, CA

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"??
>
>Richard Stern
>rstern@col.hp.com


	The *original*, as far as I know, is blue with a square
	silver button. My TS-10 is green and has a metal chassis.

	-T
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: chuck@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Mark Andrew Hawling)
Subject: Re: Building your own (ONBOARD PREAMP!)
Reply-To: chuck@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Mark Andrew Hawling)
Organization: none
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 07:55:32 GMT

>I personally don't like the sound of opamp-based preamp circuits.  The
>noises and distortions they produce are annoying and umusical and when
>overdriven their clipping sounds very buzzy and recovery is ungraceful.
>For me a discrete FET circuit is the best way to go and, as a side effect,
>is only half the space (4 resistors, 1 fet, 1 cap, less wiring, add a cap
>and a pot if you need the gain adjustment).
>
>  -- Don
>

Can you post one of your FET designs that you think is good.

Thanks

Mark
From: bearce@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Phil Bearce)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 14:29:54 GMT
Subject: Help with an Old Lap Steel
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Newsgroups: alt.guitar

After practice last night, my buddy brought out an old lap steel guitar he
got from his mom.  It looks real old.  I thought someone out there in NetLand
could comment on this thing.  First of all, it's a Rickenbacher Electro.
Is that the same as the Rickenbacher we all know and love.  Is there a way
of dating this bad boy.  I played it and it sounded pretty good.  The strings
were probably 10 years old or more, but it sounded good.  The pickup was
weird looking in that it had a big magnet and you could see the copper coil
around it.  The guitar was made of heavy gauge sheet steel pressed into the 
shape of a small travel guitar with small ridges to mark the fret spaces.
This puppy was way cool.  I'd really like to tell him how old it is and 
possibly how much it's worth.  Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Phil-

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From: jong@cco.caltech.edu (Jongwon Lee)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: REQUEST: Birthday Song
Date: 30 Sep 1992 23:30:06 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu
Summary: REQUEST: Birthday Song

If someone can send me a copy of score/chord/tap for the birthday song,
(in case there is a confusion as to what song I am referring to, it starts
like this: Happy birthday to you, Happy....) I would really appreciated it.


Jong Lee

jong@cco.caltech.edu

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Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: ssthapit@vax.clarku.edu
Subject: ftp.nevada
Organization: Clark University
Date: 2 OCT 92 04:02:15 GMT

Could someone mail the name of the directory with guitar tab to me?
Sorry,but I forgot!
Thanx.  8-)
           Chints.
{I'd also appreciate the command to list all the directories}
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: chuck@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Mark Andrew Hawling)
Subject: Re: Tube Screamer
Reply-To: chuck@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Mark Andrew Hawling)
Organization: none
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 07:08:08 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.133845.1@wharton.upenn.edu> hsu22@wharton.upenn.edu writes:
>The Tube Screamer doesn't just boost volume and add a little grunge to the
>sound.  Most of those who claim they don't like the tube screamer don't
>understand its use.  Besides pushing power amp distortion over the edge, the TS
>is extremely useful for amps with plenty of preamp distortion as well.  The
>glory of the TS is not in its stand alone sound, but in the way it interacts
>with amp distortion.  The pedal adds midrange emphasis, reinforces the 
>fundamental harmonic and cleans up the bass range.  Articulation is improved
>when playing fast and with a lot of distortion.  The TS allows you to increase
>gain without losing definition.  Unfortunately, it also increases noise.  So,
>for those of you out there testing out TS's through completely clean amps,
>you're not getting the full impact of the TS phenomenon.  
>
>BTW, I have the old TS10 and they are far superior to the TS9's.  Haven't tried
>the TS5 yet though.

Years ago I bought an Ibanez "Metal Screamer" because it was $10 cheaper than
the Tube Screamer and sounded, at the time to my ears the same. It only has
3 knobs (level, tone, drive), but has a really fantastic, very un-metal sound.
Does anyone have any info on how similiar this pedal is to the Tube Screamer.

Mark
From: db@seachg.uucp (David Bell)
Subject: Re: Building your own (ONBOARD PREAMP!)
Reply-To: db@seachg.UUCP (David Bell)
Organization: Sea Change Corporation, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 12:38:06 GMT

In article <TILL.92Sep30092008@acid-rain.lucid.com> till@lucid.com writes:
>

[Schematic and text deleted]

>
>Also note that this design is easily phantom-powered, so you can even
>get by without installing a battery.
>
>  -- Don

Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly does this meen ?

-- 
Dave Bell

Sea Change Corporation        
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada    
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From: raffi@aero.org (Raffi Krikorian)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar,rec.music.makers,comp.music,comp.dsp,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: ADDA10.ZIP uploaded (guitar effects units etc.)
Date: 28 Sep 1992 15:24:52 GMT
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: aerospace.aero.org
Keywords: analog I/O board,PC,DSP,effects units,guitar

In article <1992Sep28.080259.20680@fel.tno.nl> jsgn3@fel.tno.nl (Jos Groot) writes:
>
>
>
>In reaction to requests of some people for details about the analog I/O
>board I built for a PC, I recently uploaded the ADDA10.ZIP archive 
>(directory <MSDOS.SOUND>) to the SIMTEL anonymous FTP site:
>
><MSDOS.SOUND>
>ADDA10.ZIP      ADC/DAC board for DSP experiments;TP src/exe
>
>The archive describes how to build and use a simple low cost analog I/O 
>extension board for PC's. It utilizes the 8-bit AD7569 IC containing a
>500 KHz analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a 1 MHz digital-to-analog
>converter (DAC). The card can for example be used to sample sound
>with the ADC and play it back through the DAC in real time, possibly after 
>some `on-the-fly' digital signal processing. Files included are:
>
>1. construction/operation description
>2. electronic/layout sketch diagrams
>3. Turbo Pascal 6.0 source and executable code for using the card. It includes
>   routines implementing two digital (guitar) sound effects, i.e., a distortion
>   and echo. These routines demonstrate the basics of the digital sound 
>   processing techniques used in dedicated sound effect processors.
>
>The files of 1. and 2. are suitable for downloading to HP Laserjet or 
>PostScript compatible printers.
>
>-- 
>Jos Groot (jos.groot@fel.tno.nl)
>Physics and Electronics Laboratory TNO-FEL 
>P.O.box 96864
>2509 JG  The Hague, The Netherlands

The sounds pretty good.  But would the software work with the
sound blaster board?

Basically I'm interested in using my computer as guitar effects
processer, in real time.  Is there such software out there?

Raffi Krikorian
From: rdc00a@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Kelly Pedersen)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Martin Guitar
Date: 29 Sep 92 12:00:04 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical R&D Command

I have a Martin D-35 that I bought new about 25 years ago.  I am thinking
about selling it.  Does anyone have any idea what it might be worth.  I
have always kept it in a hard shell case.  Thanks.
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: mayer@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (James Mayer)
Subject: For Sale: Ibanez Sabre
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:39:09 GMT

Like new Ibanez Sabre for sale.
Thinline body.
Wide-thin neck.
Independant pickup electronics.
Hot Yellow color.
$400.00 - What a steal!

(703) 836-2671, Jim. Washington, DC.

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From: cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Howard Black)
Subject: Re: Classical/Jazz: duets?
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:52:20 GMT
Organization: Eastern Illinois University

In article <loon.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?

    Do you mean transcriptions or recordings?  If the latter, there are
*thousands* - maybe you'd better narrow your request a little...

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