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From: jsgn3@fel.tno.nl (Jos Groot)
Subject: ADDA10.ZIP uploaded (guitar effects units etc.)
Summary: Uploaded ADDA10.ZIP containing description of analog I/O board for PC
Keywords: analog I/O board,PC,DSP,effects units,guitar
Organization: TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 08:02:59 GMT




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
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: hookman@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Andrew R Hill)
Subject: for sale: OVATION guitar 
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:34:43 GMT

I have an Ovation 12 string "Custom Balidera" guitar for sale.... 

it is a beauty, complete with active 3 band-eq, six separate pizeo-elec
pickups, and the killer Ovation 5-piece maple neck.


email or call # 413-546-4729

$650 or b.r.o.

Andrew



A
From: kupec@agouron.com (John W. Kupec)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: ZOOM 9002 patches
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:43:57 GMT
Organization: Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Hola,

I recently bought a Zoom 9002 and am interested in hearing about
the cool sounds others have created.  I'm especially interested
in hard/metal type patch configurations.  Some of the preset 
patches are ok but I still haven't found a combination that's
really IT.  

Also,
Has anyone out there managed to get a sound similar to that
heard in the Twin Peaks theme music (with a 9002, that is)?  
Where the guitar goes dum dum, dum dum...?

PPP (post patches please)

-- 

John Kupec ( kupec@agouron.com )
Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
San Diego, CA  92121 (619) 622-3040
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: balon@cup.hp.com (Tom Balon)
Subject: Re: Tube Screamer
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:10:54 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino, CA

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.



	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.
	Out of all the "tube-like" boxes, this one sounded best and cost
	only $60.00. I use it with my '65 Modified Fender Princeton. 

	-T




Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: till@acid-rain.lucid.com (Don Tillman)
Subject: Re: Ibanez pickups hum
Reply-To: till@lucid.com
Organization: Lucid, Inc.
Date: 26 Sep 92 11:31:56

   Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 21:24:42 GMT
   From: bill@verdix.com (William Spencer)
   Organization: Verdix Corp.

   I recently bought an Ibanez RG-550. The excellent satin finish, maple
   fingerboard neck sold me on it. But I have one serious complaint: the 
   humbucking pickups are not completely humbucking.

   Compared with the humbucker on a Fender Squier Bullet (which costs 1/3 as
   much), hum is appox. 3 times as loud. Furthermore, it includes a definite
   60 Hz fundamental component, indicating unbalanced construction. Compared,
   using measuring instruments, to the single-coil, hum is about 1/10th that of
   the single-coil. This indicates a 10% unbalance between the two coils, if I 
   understand correctly.

One coil's output is plus 10%, one is minus, so they're actually 20% apart.
Given two outputs, a1 and a2, the noise output is (a1-a2)/(a1+a2).

   The guitar uses Ibanez "V1" and "V2" pickups plus an "S1" single coil. Hum
   is similar for both of the humbuckers, despite the fact 
   that they are somewhat different
   from each other. Another guitar I tried in the store also hummed. I believe
   the inbalance is due not to different windings on the two coils, but due to
   the use of screws in one coil and slugs in the other. There may be also a 
   problem due to the way the screws stick out of the bottom of the pickup
   (Don, anyone, care to comment?).

Well I'm a little rusty, not having dealt with Maxwell's equations for over
15 years, but since the hum is an H field and the induced voltage in a coil
is proportional to the B field, it seems reasonable that the coil's hum
output would be dependent on the permeability of the material in the coil.
Somebody who's a little more up on this stuff then I should comment.

I assume you've determined that the humbucking hum comes and goes with the
position of the instrument just like single coil hum.  (I say this because
there are about a dozen different kinds of hum, each of which needs to be
solved with a seperate approach.  Ie., advice for one type of hum will be
useless for most others.  I'm sure Bill knows this, but not everyone who
reads this does.)

But still, 20dB of hum rejection (10% of single coil hum) ain't *that* bad. 

  -- Don
From: osminer@spot.Colorado.EDU (OSMINER MATTHEW COREY)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Ideas?
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:38:41 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder


	Howdy folks.  I'm a EE and I play guitar.  I was looking for some
great ideas on some new effects that people think would be cool.  Just
drop a few ideas by.  If I get anything terribly interesting I'll post
up some circuit descriptions for the general public.
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: till@acid-rain.lucid.com (Don Tillman)
Subject: Re: Why tubes? (was Re: Building effects units for gu
Reply-To: till@lucid.com
Organization: Lucid, Inc.
	<evh5150.717816112@camelot> <1992Sep30.060503.15961@husc3.harvard.edu>
	<TILL.92Sep30092630@acid-rain.lucid.com> <evh5150.718335083@camelot>
Distribution: na
Date: 6 Oct 92 11:13:02

   From: evh5150@camelot.bradley.edu (Andrew Eckhart)
   Organization: Bradley University
   Date:  6 Oct 92 01:31:23 GMT

   Well here it is... and I quote from the book Guitar Gear, a Guitar Player
   book, edited by John Brosh, Quill Publishing, copyright 1985 pages 194, and 207:
[...]

   And yes... I'm an EE.

As an EE I'm sure you can understand that a Guitar Player publication that
just spits back inaccurate generalizations doesn't make it as a technical
reference.  Howzabout something from the Journal of the Audio Engineering
Society, the IEEE Transactions, or something of that level?  

  -- Don
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Longevity of Strings
From: haley@husc10.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley)
Date: 29 Sep 92 05:33:20 EDT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <BvAK1r.EBE@nic.umass.edu> jepstein@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jonathan Epstein) writes:
>I have been playing guitar for many years (sometimes, I feel like its been
>TOO long), and I have had a problem that has plagued ever since I started.
>This problem is keeping my strings nice and shiny, instead of dirty and
>grey.
>
>I have tried wiping the guitar down after ever song I play, using "FAST FRET",
>putting baby powder on the neck after every gig or rehearsal, and several
>others that never seem to work.
>
The problem is that you, a human, (I'm assuming) are made of
chemicals, and indeed secrete chemicals, namely sodium-cloride in an
aqueous solution in mixture with certain corporal oils, and also a bit
of other chemicals which combine to make your skin vaguely acidic,
meaning your strings are going to corrode.
Short of having them galvanized, which i would suspect would alter the
tone somewhat, really the best you can do is, replace them a lot...
:-)

Though seriously, you have mentioned about everything that you can do
and not screw up the tone of the strings. Strings are usually either
steel, brass,bronze or nylon, with a variety of coatings... and with
the *possible* exception of nylon, all these corrode fairly easily.
Just playing causes some corrosion, not to mention wear, since your
fingers do actually wear the strings down, despite most peoples
feelings that the strings are winning...

I will add though that the worst thing you can do for your strings is
not use them... I have restrung peoples guitars for them, played it a
bit, and set it down, to come back three weeks later to find the
guitar in the same place and the strings showing rust!

Use 'em, clean 'em, and when they sound bad, replace 'em... For those
who play a lot, talk to yer supplier about bulk strings...
They're much cheaper, especially iff you can split them with
friends...
From: kimple@vax.muskingum.edu
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Onboard pre & speaker questions...
Date: 29 Sep 92 13:00:56 -0600
Organization: Muskingum College


A couple of quick questions...

A) I have a schematic for a small onboard preamp, but have hesitated in
building and using it becasue my bridge pickup is real hot - a Duncan HotRails,
which soemtimes kick the clean channel into distortion if I don't back off the
volume cdontrol (which of course rolls of the highs). Will I have enough 
headroom to use a onobard pre?  As well,I do like to roll back the Guitar's
volume to  clean up the sound at times when using full bore distortion. 
Will I get the same response from a Onboard Pre?

B) I have a great preamp and poweramp that I use with my bass...now I'm trying
to get a good, compact, powerful speaker cabinet working. I have a small 2-10"
cabinet that I'd like to load with a pair of 10" woofers/subwoofers (the same
thing as theyu are putting in those truck/car speaker boxes) Will this work, or
will the result be lacking? I'm getting a good sound with a Peavey combo 300,
but I hate carrying that thing! Besides, I messed up m back a couple years ago
in a motorcycle wreck, and loading/unloading this thing doesn't help!
Any comments, opinion?

thanks,
jd
From: rlwst8+@pitt.edu (Robert L Williamson)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Nevada Site Requests
Date: 27 Sep 92 19:03:30 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

I seem to have a problem posting requests in the nevada ftp site.  With almost every song there r 2 names listed at the end of the song, names that u can contact 4 requests.  Well I emailed both names they had 4 guitar transscription requests and I haven't seem them in the site and I mailed these requests out about 2 weeks ago.  My question is what's the deal?  Does it take a long time to get a song posted or do u have to post requests at a certain time.  I would appreciate any comments.
From: cartano@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jefferson R Cartano)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Gretsch guitar
Keywords: advice needed
Date: 29 Sep 92 13:42:43 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Hi!. I'm thinking about purchasing a Gretsch flat-top
guitar, the RANCHER.  I've tried the guitar once and feel
that it has a pretty good sound.  I would really appreciate it
if you give me any advice about the guitar -- is Gretsch a good
company, are their guitars of high quality and durability.
From what I hear, Gretsch used to be made in the US, but now the
guitars are now made in Japan.  

Thanks for any information you can post.
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Why tubes? (was Re: Building effects units for gu
From: haley@husc10.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley)
Date: 2 Oct 92 07:50:55 GMT
 <TILL.92Sep30092630@acid-rain.lucid.com> <wright.45.0@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> <1992Oct1.212754.18703@unixg.ubc.ca>
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dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca (Derek K. Miller) writes:

>I think this is a FAT (Frequently Argued Topic). Not that I mind, but
>like the Strat/Les Paul wars, there will never be a resolution.

Of Course Not! Long live Opinion! Variety is the Spice of Life!
Other Platitudes ending in !!
So long as people are different let them hear differently. It's not whether it is "Right"... It's whether it gets your nipples hard...
From: corvett@csa.bu.edu (Sungyeup Kim)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Distortion Usage ?!
Date: 30 Sep 92 20:39:58 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: corvett@csa


Hi everybody,

Which channel people usually use with distortion pedal? I means, through the clean channel or through the distortion channel? I like very very cruncy metal 
sounds (like Metallica or Pantana). Probably I can get that sounds if I crank 
up the volume but I lives in the apartment and I don't wanna bother my neighbor.
I have a 50watt amp and I always set the volume to 1.5 or 2. Now, how can I get 
metallic sound with this volume? through clean or distortion channel???

Thanks in advance.
From: acoggins@light.Princeton.EDU (Adam Cody Coggins)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Distortion Usage ?!
Date: 5 Oct 92 17:22:15 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@nimaster

In article <97163@bu.edu>, corvett@csa.bu.edu (Sungyeup Kim) writes:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Which channel people usually use with distortion pedal? I means, through the clean channel or through the distortion channel? I like very very cruncy metal 
> sounds (like Metallica or Pantana). Probably I can get that sounds if I crank 
>up the volume but I live in the apartment and I don't wanna bother my neighbor.
>I have a 50watt amp and I always set the volume to 1.5 or 2. Now,how can I get 
> metallic sound with this volume? through clean or distortion channel???

If you put a distortion pedal through a distortion channel, you will be
getting distortion from two places--the amp and the pedal.  This could
be good or bad--just try it and see.  You could also try pedal-->clean
channel or no pedal-->distortion channel.

Heck, just try every possible configuration, experiment with the
different knob settings, and see what you like!  That's the best way
to learn about a system. (although a little knowledge can cut down
on the time it takes to find a certain sound.)

-Cody Coggins <acoggins@phoenix.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
From: jimlynch@netcom.com (Jim Lynch)
Subject: Re: Suggestions on buying a new amp
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: all
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 10:15:24 GMT

In article <2ACF464C.13608@ics.uci.edu> jchilber@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jeffrey Allen Chilberto) writes:
>Hello out there!
>
>I'm getting interrested in buying a larger
>amp for my bass.  I want something large
>enough for a small club, but not too
>expensive.  I have no idea on what brands
>are better or what to actually look for.
>Any suggestions out there?  Also what types
>of affects do some of the bassists out there
>use?
>
>Take it easy,
>Jeff
>

what kind of tone do you want? what kind of music do you play?
From: KXN2@psuvm.psu.edu (Karl Nordstrom)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
Subject: Speaker Cabinet Materials
Date: 2 Oct 92 19:11:57 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

What are the best choices of materials for speaker cabinets.  Mine has a
pressed wood front and back.  The top bottom and sides are made of pine.
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
From: rost@rgb.dec.com (My name is Brian Rost)
Subject: Re: weak finger between pinkie and middle
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date:  5 OCT 92 14:34:29    


In article <1992Oct5.121246.18842@nstn.ns.ca>, GEN2010@Husky1.StMarys.Ca (ROSS BILLARD) writes...
>Hey... I was just wondering, what is a good way of strengthing up that finger
>between the middle and pinkie? If I lay my hand down on  table and try to tap
>that finger, I find it impossible... (I keep all the other fingers down)
> 
>Any help would be appreciated...
> 
> 

Normal fingering practice is to use either a 3-fret stretch, where the ring
finger is used together with the pinky, or a 4-fret stretch, where the ring
finger is independent.  Either way, if you follow the "classic"  technique
where the index and middle fingers will be down on the fretboard whenever the
ring finger is used, you should be having no problems.

To gain strength, simply try playing scales without changing positions.  

					Brian Rost @rgb.enet.dec.com

					508-568-6115

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From: hl27+@andrew.cmu.edu (Haw Juin Lin)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
Subject: Re: IBANEZ ES Series?
Date: 6 Oct 92 00:54:29 GMT
Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

The only thing that I could tel you is that they are better than the EX
series but not as good as the RG and the RX series.

I'd buy one...

Later
Merlin
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
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Subject: FOR SALE - Electric Acoustic
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Distribution: usa
Date:  1 Oct 1992 08:19 EST  

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From: aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
Subject: Re: Slap Style
Date: 30 Sep 92 08:49:21 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

marshall1198@iscsvax.uni.edu wrote:
:I don't think that a P bass gives a very good slap tone.  The J bass is really
:good, but I prefer a bass with humbuckers in the neck and bridge positions with
:them both on.  This gives a nice sweet buzzed tone.  Also, I like to take a lot
:of the mids out of the sound so that it doesn't sound so bright.
:

	And a bit of chorus or flanging also does wonders for the sound.


		Aaron Turner
From: eskridge@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Paul Eskridge)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
Subject: Singing and playing
Date: 26 Sep 92 19:34:32 GMT
Followup-To: Singing and playing
Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA,  USA


Ross Clement writes, 

>According to "The Rock and Roll Singer's Handbook" a problem with singing
>in general is that basically you can only do one thing conciously at once.

While this DOES seem like an utterly reputable source for information on
psychophysiology, I'm afraid that, in this instance, their information is
hogwash.  It is true that no one I've ever met can focus their attention tightly
on more than one thing at the same time.  But there are ways around that.  And
they don't have to be so simplified as `just get one part down to automatic'.

I sing and play at the same time a lot.  It isn't so hard as it looks, once
you've spent 5-8 years working on it.  That's the BIG ticket.  Just keep at it,
and it'll come to you.  And, it's true, I'll easily admit, that I play much
more simply when I'm singing than when I'm not.  But it's never by wrote.  In
fact neither the singing nor the bass playing is by wrote.  The trick, for me,
is to attach the choices of notes, timings, and inflections of both the singing
and the bass playing to my own internal sense of a songs rythym.  Once I can do
that, then I can hear where both parts are going simultaneously.  This sounds
pretty esoteric, but I really don't think that it is.  Even if you play with a
lot of counterpoint and syncopation, what you play still has to derive from an
internal clock that's keeping track of where the "1" is.  It's just a matter of
hooking up two output channels to that clock.

But enough of this gibberish,
Paul

PS.  What with all this recent adulation for players like Les Claypool, Stu Hamm,
etc., I just feel it's time to put in my plug for a couple of bass titans (the
fathers of the gods) -- the two Jacks.  Bruce and Casady.