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I bought one of his albums a long time back,.. some strange song about being a Viking,..ho ho (checks haven't bought a spinal tap album by mistake,. nope),.. wow,.. amazing guitar work,.. after several songs though I was seriously bored. He's great, but I couldn't manage a whole one. Uli Roth seems to have a lot more melody and soul for my tastes. I do thank Yngwie for inspiring those overdubbed parody vids on youratube, hilarious.

Absolutely,.. I listened to this one a few weeks back for the first time in years and thought the same. Love the guitar solo in 'Stargazer'

Here's another angle. Spend some time with one of the latest PODs (or similar) and check out the various amplifier models,... and often overlooked cabs. His final choice of amp/cab will have to be tested in home practice/rehearsal/gig mode anyway but auditioning the usual suspects in virtual land might help narrow it down, or add an unusual contender to the list of possibilities. He might even prefer the POD,.. I certainly prefer carrying it.

I didn't fancy going into MIDI in great detail so planned to use a software sampler and trigger whatever (chord/vocal backing/special effect noise) sound I wanted. I use NI battery and it has a load of cells/pigeon holes which are assigned to MIDI notes - I haven't a clue about samplers etc. so forgive this bad description - You load whatever you want as a .wav file into the cell and trigger it by the pedals. Could add drum triggers and additional MIDI keys/pedals to share the duties . Where there could be a problem : syncing a longer sample to the beat of what we are playing at the time, loading samples between songs though it looks like I could store everything I need for a set in one go, swapping between synth and sample mode on the fly (the Audigy 2 card I have in there has 5 outputs or so, use switches or volume pedals to select synth/sample/both) Oh and I might forget that D1# pedal triggers a humongous explosion and not the quiet bell tree I was expecting,.. would liven up those ballads

Hi, I had a similar quest and stuck an octave of bass pedals in a box (Moog Taurus sort of clone thing) along with a PC motherboard and MIDI scanner. The pedals and scanner generate MIDI which can be connected to a synth or back into the box to play soft synths on the PC. At some point I intend to improve the scanner to do various functions, single press chords etc. It's maybe easier to build one than play it, hats off to Geddy (and Alex) for their skills in that area

I have a Shine faker and only recently got the chance to side by side it with the real thing. I doesn't sound bad at all with the Seymour Duncan pups. I guess I was comforted (after parting with a load of cash ) that it didn't sound closer to the 4003 than I thought it would - the Shine is all maple, straight through neck etc. If I was building a faker, (am I allowed to say that ??) .. ahem, kicks parts back out of sight under bed,.. I'd happily use the SD neck pup and have a look around at other bridge pups before deciding.

I built something (slightly) similar in the shape of a guitar rack. Used MDF and covered it in fur from local Remnant Kings (got some strange looks). One thing which I felt the need to add is a dividing panel between dookits in order to prevent dinging. hang on, will get a pic :[attachment=137867:gtr racke.jpg] covering it in the fur was a monster PITA, but it seems to have served its purpose, there's a layer of polystyrene padding (like the laminate flooring underlay) underneath that fur and the whole lot is stuck on with spray glue,.. used 2 tins of expensive evo stik before finding some cheap stuff in B&M cheers

Thanks,..Glad to hear they worked well. I run an SSD in the pedalboard and the OS is pretty bare so it boots reasonably fast, just fears of the thing crashing from previous experiences of mixing puters and music live..I go back to an Atari which was down more than it was up,... probably unreasonable these days. I'm very interested in the PI and watching them closely, but no LINUX experience and as mine is VST plugin based, would need to be able to support that,.. probably is something there but I have a finger in so many 'PIs' at the mo. I'd really need to spend some time investigating The PI looks as if it will be great for MIDI stuff, or even direct synthesis. great product altogether..Not the best pic, but you can see the old DDR2 MB, PSU etc. MIDI scanner on the right. Upside down board is an old Audigy 2 soundcard on a riser.

Hi, good luck with that, certainly good to keep it in hardware like that. I have PC boot up times plus the other potential issues of using a PC for live music,.. noise, crashing,.. been ok. so far though touch wood. I was reading about the MIDI cpu today and looks really interesting, need to look into the sysex details though. Here are the pics I couldn't post earlier. Makes a nice place to put my POD too....cheers...

I also had a set of Taurus Mk1s and was also persuaded to sell them,.. big regret. Interesting to see that module. I had an old Maplin MIDI scanner based around the E510 chip and used that for mine - I put a PC motherboard, PSU and the scanner inside a box with a set of old Maplin organ pedals. Hopefully also do for samples and various other things. Can't upload a pic now, will do later. When I tried to make a set for another band member though I couldn't find a suitable scanner, was going to make something using a PIC,.. or even Raspberry Pi, then took the lazier option and picked up a little Oxygen8 keyboard,.. idea being to piggy back the switches and put the keyboard inside the case with a flip lid or ?? So I too am interested to hear how you get on with the highly liquid cpu. I am using a Taurus soft synth plugin which I picked up years ago, sounds really good. cheers..

excellent,... post your progress and I'm sure that there will be folks will help out if you get stuck, you are welcome to PM me if you want. I've spent many a lunchtime getting info. from the various guitar building sites online and there's a load of interesting vids too. You can get by mostly with standard tools although it's easier with some of the specialised ones. I always laugh at the guys who post saying this is my first attempt at building - presenting some perfect looking axe - I have a big 'good try' box in the store.

The other two necks didn't make it to guitars (yet). I made 3 necks at the same time as it does not take much longer to make say 3 blanks than 1 if you have already set up the saw/planer etc. A variation on the fret markers is on the guitar which I originally posted pics: Little dovetails instead of rectangles, done using a router and filled using sycamore again in this case. For wood, you just have to look around; local sawmills for native stuff - sycamore and ash are good for guitar building. Reclaimers for more exotic stuff, I recently scored a load of purpleheart which had been part of a pier in Aberdeenshire, loads of maple around, mahogany mantlepieces and the like (do a Brian May )

thanks guys, appreciate the kind comments. Headstock was designed by my mate (owner), I think that he was after a 'Joe Stump' strat look. I tend to build more than one thing at a time so I made 3 necks when doing this one, variations in the fretboards, headstocks as per the pics, ebony nuts that I was waffling on about in previous posts,..same basic construction,.. make a rectangular blank from laminates of whatever - I've used two strips of sycamore to give a contrast in the top one ( I like contrasting wood types ) rout a truss rod channel, add 'ears', fretboard, rout neck flush with the fretboard using a guide bearing,.. shape the headstock,.. including the strat type, non-tilt back style, shape the neck, fret it etc. The fretboards are made from the same rosewood as the necks - I bought a fair bit of it from a reclaimers years back - 150yr old plus floorboards from an old hall in Glasgow. I put a bit through the planer and when I saw what came out I knew that it wasn't going on the floor. The markers are sycamore,..dowel in the bottom neck and little pieces of square section in the top (to also give side markers) They have no finish at all in the pic, the rosewood really is gorgeous after some oil/poly. Lots of info online about making guitars but no substitute for learning the hard way, just don't chop anything off. I am pretty crap with hand tools so I use a lot of home made jigs and power tools He had looked to buy a rosewood neck and I gather that you can get them, but pretty expensive.

Mate bought a strat scratchplate from a well known auction site - fitted with a pair of bareknuckle pickups. He then acquired a body, neck, hardware and I foolishly volunteered to help put it together. What started as a small mod to the headstock and assembling the bits ended up as a custom strat build,... the body required a lot of work and the neck got junked/made one from rosewood 46mm wide at the nut, brass nut, an extra fret and jumbo 4100/4105 fret wire. Bit of tweaking to go but plays very nicely and the organoil + rosewood is glassy smooth.

They appear to have offered a couple of 'standard' models in the 80s; one like the vid, similar to the bass shape and a double cutaway (called the OC32 I think) - Guessing a bit from what I've seen rather than any available info. but the early 80s guitars seem to have Lawrence blade pups and KAs appeared later on. That vid is the first time I've seen one of that shape with Lawrences (prob L500s) apologies I made a mistake in my last post, mine originally had Seymour Duncans, not Kent Armstrongs, KAs seem to be common on slightly later (mid 80s guitars on) though. The original setup was a bit disappointing as the Lawrence double cutaway guitars are absolute screamers. There are a lot of holes already in the body so plenty of options for doing things without having to reach for a saw or drill The sensible pup mod would be to bung a pair of L500s in and I am happy enough with that, guitar has a battery compartment already routed though (was originally active) so actives would also be an easy option, also have a Fernandes sustainer kit which is looking for a home. It is of course a good point about being careful when changing things, I agree that the guitars must be pretty rare - one of my reasons for starting the thread,... would love to know how many there are out there ? (I haven't had much luck with Overwater and no serial numbers etc.) A mate, who also is a fan of overwater guitars got a 'hotter' KA pup made for one of his double cutaways and I fitted it for him - made no difference at all He'd convert it to Lawrences in a flash, but the cavities for the KAs are bigger so not so easy to convert.

Thanks folks. I'll start a new thread when I get the finish a bit more 'finished' ,.. feel like I'm hijacking this thread - sorry Chris. It was actually a rosewood strat neck for a mate which got me started again - will do a couple of new threads when I get home and can post some pics. cheers..

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DsGDFMEnSI[/media] by original shape - you mean like the one in the link above ? (not me) I have one like that but with Kent Armstrong pickups and active,.. sounded pretty weedy so it is currently waiting a transplant. Undecided whether to put in Bill Lawrences like the one in the vid. Or some more modern actives (EMG/Irongear)

thanks very much,...I've learned few things the hard way regards finishing with tung oil. Currently at coat 5 and the neck is beginning to look more like the picture permanently (rather than just when wet) Body is still very dry - but the neck did have a head start. First coat I didn't wipe it down well enough and it was still wet almost 2 days later. I find that the rags don't seem to dry out either,.. despite laying them nice and flat to avoid spontaneous combustion,.. sounds rather nasty that one

I can't get enough bass from it on its own for sure - but no use for the top end in a bi amp setup ? (I haven't tried it yet)

Ok. so they are pretty well known for making basses - any fans of their guitars out there ? There was a guy in a local band had one of the early Chris n Andy's Workshop explorers (the same axe may actually be shown in their fb gallery),.. got me interested. Have seen a few come up for auction over the years, but no idea how many they made (some 'standard' models in the 80s and the odd custom model I guess in more recent times.)

same area, same boat,..(we do rehearse though),.. but really hard to get gigs playing your own material,.. self promoted (and backed ££) multi band, co op gigs seem to be the only option - with the added joys of sharing gear

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1370360886' post='2099710'] Checked and resoldered the channel switch and pre amp valve connections and, hey presto, all sorted! The channel selector switch is still not quite right (has to be fiddled with to select channel 2) but switch cleaner should sort that, although to be fair I don't particularly like the 'cooking' selection (Cornell's description, not mine) as it bypasses the tone controls, so I won't really use it much, if at all. The Cort now sounds much better than it already did [/quote] good news !! I've built a few amps now and you certainly learn a lot more when they don't work first time, or develop some problem I have an old Cort flying V,.. haven't been able to find out very much about it at all, seems like 70s going by the hardware.

[attachment=136365:parana prster neck.jpg] I applied a coat of pure tung oil (had plenty of drying time available),.. the parana is quite dry and soaked it up but the rosewood (which already had 2 coats of organoil ) really seems to like it