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Here's a trick , it won't totally
eliminate a shock but it will reduce it down to about 40 volts
(Caution
this mod only works on the string ground, if you touch the output jack,
metal knobs or other metal grounded objects on your guitar you may end
up seeing stars)
Here's what you need
- A 220k 1/2 watt resistor (color
code: red/red/yellow/gold)
- A .001 ceramic 500volt or
better capacitor
Twist and solder the two
components together, remove the bridge ground from the back of the pot,
insert the cap/resistor between the removed ground wire and pot.
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Evitez
de manger une poignée de châtaignes!
Voici un truc qui n'élimine pas
totalement les chocs dus à une mauvaise mise à la terre mais les
réduiera à 40 volts. Attention , il ne vous protège que pour le contact
avec les cordes et non avec les autres paties de la guitare.
Il vous faut
- Une résistance de 220k 1/2
watt (code couleurs: rouge/rouge/jaune/or)
- Une capacité céramique de .001
µF/500 volt ou plus
Otez la mise à la masse entre le
chevalet et le potentiomètre et remplcez la par le nouveau circuit.
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Keep The Highs
Ever notice when you turn down
your volume pot that your tone gets muddy? Here's a cheap mod that will
only set you back about .50 cents and will keep your tone. All you need
is to add a .001 µf ceramic capacitor to your volume control across the
outside lug (not the one that is grounded to the cover) and the center
lug, this allows the highs to bypass around the pot instead of being
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Ne
laissez pas les aigus se tirer des pattes
N'avez-vous jamais remarqué que
votre son devient molasson quand vous baissez le potard de volume. Une
modif bon marché fera l'affaire. Une capacité céramique de .001 µF entre
les deux pattes actives du potard dirigera les aigus vers la sortie au
lieu de les laisser aller vers la masse quand vous réduisez le volume.
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| Midrange Modification
Here's a really cool mod for
those of you that don't use your tone control ( you always leave
it full up right?). It's a mid cut control designed by
Torres Engineering
that replaces your tone control,
actually it doesn't replace anything, it just rewires your tone control
and adds a few
parts. When you turn down the mid control is
scoops out the mids yet leaves the lows and highs. You can experiment
with the capacitor values to change the eq point that the mid cut
effects. Just follow the diagram below, make sure the lead coming from
the inductor to the outside lug of the tone pot is insulated (the other
lead doesn't matter cause it's soldered to the back of the pot along
with the tabs on the inductor-just make sure you have room for it on the
side of the pot or solder it to the back of the pot).
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Modifiez les sons médiums
Voici une modif vraiment utile
pour vous qui laissez toujours votre potard de tonalité grand ouvert. Il
s'agit d'une modif du circuit de votre contôle de tonalité qui le
remplace par un contrôle des sons mediums, sans altérer les graves ni
les aigus. Vous pouvez essayer différentes valeurs de capacité pour
faire varier les points d'équalisation. Suivez simplement le shéma
ci-dessous et assurez-vous que le fil entre la bobine d'induction et la
patte du potard de tonalité est bien isolé. Assurez-vous égalment que
vous avez la place suffisante à côté du potard ou bien soudez la bobine
à l'arrière.
Pour la valeur de la self TL021, vous pouvez essayer 1.5 Henri, ou le
double, ou la moitié. Alors deux selfs identiques de 1.5 Henri sont
suffisantes pour vos essais. |
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A Switchable Boost / Cut Control
This Modification is a takeoff
from the
Torres Engineering
Mid Boost / Cut control but with a
twist. This is the same mod as the Midrange Boost / Cut
mod but with a
Push/Pull pot to allow the normal tone control
functions when the pot is in the pushed in position and when pulled up
it engages the Mid Boost / Cut control. Just follow the diagram (use a
standard 500k Push/ Pull pot) and enjoy. |
Le
précédent avec un switch
Le potard de tonalité a été
remplacé par un potentiomètre avec connecteur Push/Pull.
Cette modif permet au
potentiomètre de tonalité de fonctionner, soit dans le mode classique
(bouton poussé), soit dans le mode précédent agissant sur les sons
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Midrange Boost / Cut Modification
Here's another cool mod for your
tone control designed by
Torres Engineering. It's a mid cut / boost (sort of) control that
replaces your tone control and adds a few
parts. When you turn down the mid control it cuts the mids yet
leaves the lows and highs. When you turn up the mid control it rolls off
some Lows and highs and leaves the mids, so it sounds as though you
added mids. The only way to truly add anything is to have a active eq or
preamp installed (which requires a battery.) Just follow the diagram
below, make sure the lead coming from the inductor to the Resistor/Cap
network is insulated (the other lead doesn't matter cause it's soldered
to the back of the pot along with the tabs on the inductor, just make
sure you have room for it on the side of the pot or solder it to the
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Coupure ou
augmentation des sons médiums
Voilà une autre modif pour votre
contrôle du son, présentée par Torres Engineering. Il s'agit d'une sorte
de contrôle fort/faible des sons médiums qui remplace votre contrôle de
tonalité en ajoutant quelques composants. Quand vous fermez le contrôle
de médiums, vous affaiblissez une partie des graves et des aigus, ce qui
est perçu comme une augmentation des sons médiums.
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Midrange Boost / Cut Modification
Here's another cool mod for your tone control
designed by
Torres Engineering. It's a mid cut / boost (sort of) control that
replaces your tone control and adds a few
parts.
When you turn down the mid control it cuts the mids yet leaves the lows and
highs. When you turn up the mid control it rolls off some Lows and highs and
leaves the mids, so it sounds as though you added mids. The only way to
truly add anything is to have a active eq or preamp installed (which
requires a battery.) Just follow the diagram below, make sure the lead
coming from the inductor to the Resistor/Cap network is insulated (the other
lead doesn't matter cause it's soldered to the back of the pot along with
the tabs on the inductor, just make sure you have room for it on the side of
the pot or solder it to the back of the pot).
Coil split with a twist
How about a
variable coil splitter for you humbucker users out
there (sorry single coil users). Adding a splitting switch (mini toggle or
push/pull) gives you only 2 options, full humbucking mode or single coil
mode. This modification will use your tone control as a variable splitter
giving you all the sounds in between full on and off. I have 2 versions of
this modification available, just click on the one that best suits you and
the rest is up to you.
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Use a stock tone pot for a variable split only
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Use a Push/Pull pot for a stock tone setup or variable split
option (My favorite)
Variable coil tap #1
This modification is really
simple to do but the only drawback to it is that you loose your normal tone
control function, but hey who uses it anyway! OOPS didn't mean to offend you
folks that do use your tone knob, if you do use it please check out
modification #2. The rest of you that stuck around just follow the
diagram below and it will work fine
Variable coil tap #2
Now we're talking my mod of
choice for a coil split. This modification utilizes one of the best (my
opinion) inventions for electric guitar, the
Push/Pull pot. With this mod we will be able to have a standard
tone control (just as it is on your guitar right now) with the knob in the
down position, or the variable coil splitter when you pull up on the knob
(or it could be wired just the opposite). Just follow the diagram carefully
and it should work fine.
Combo Tone / Midrange cut
Here's my varaition on the Torres
Mid Cut Mod that uses a Push/Pull pot and the same
parts
as the Mid cut mod. This setup will give you a stock tone control
with the knob in the down position and a Midrange cut in the pulled up
position. Note this modification (and all others on this web site) are based
on a standard DPDT
(Dimarzio)
Push pull, what I mean to say is that when the shaft is in the down position
the contacts being made are the middle and lower two. When pulled up the
middle and upper two contacts are made. (I have worked with some pots that
are just the reverse!)
Add a Pickup
Have you Strat owners ever wanted to get that
"Middle position" Tele tone from your 3 pickup guitar? Now you can by
activating your neck pickup in conjunction with your bridge pickup! What you
will need is either a 250K
Push/Pull pot
(my favorite-no drilling any holes in that "57
Strat" or giving away your tone trick) or a mini SPST toggle switch. If you
study the diagram below you will see that all we are doing is replacing one
of the stock tone pots (your choice) with the Push/Pull control and adding a
wire from the 5-way switch at the point where the white wire from the neck
pickup connects and running it to the Switch portion of the Push/Pull and
then to the outer lug of the volume pot.The tone control section of the Push/Pull
wires the same as the pot that was removed.
What this allows you to do is
to turn on the neck pickup when you are in the bridge pickup mode (or if
your in that "classic"one up from the bottom #4 position) you will have all
3 pickups at once!
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