Devil's workshop

[Pinkie]

No Mouse I have no idea about Greg I was speaking of me.LOL
You do some great work I'm enjoying the pics!

[gtr-tek]

Originally Posted by Mouse

Thanks gtr-tek, can you see the pictures? from here it looks like the service is down
Edit: I recovered pic above Rufus Huff video so you can see finish.


Glad to hear that, seems like in Oregon they have a booze problems but I'm not gonna make any judgements based on the single person

Duh, yea. I see the finish! Beautiful! I don't drink much at least... Actually, it's been weeks since I had a drink. We do have our drunks around though, like everywhere else...

[kresho69]

Mouse, my friend who made me rethink the whole concept of this industry. Got me hooked on playing music for music' sake and steered my attention to the "right causes" in music. Considered as a no.1 pickup winder in our country, with a customer list ranging from anonymous guitar slingers, to "hot shots".

Being a guitar player before a luthier gives him a head start in creating and recreating some of the finest goodies available to our discerning ears.

I have had the pleasure of cuddling with this baby recently (the Lester we are all drooling on), and boy, it rings.
Very acoustic and very light. If it had a bridge, I'm sure it would be louder than some acoustics 8-)

Can't wait for the witch to bring this girl alive!

[Mouse]

Kresho69, thanks for your kind words but friends don't count LoL

Originally Posted by Mouse

Basicaly we are cutting 3-4 necks and fretboards because of this tonematching witchcraft. Stay away from muffled necks, neck can be on the highs <-> deeps side but must have transparent/very alive characteristics when you tap on it.

Originally Posted by Mouse

Now like we said comes in tonematching part so we decide which neck by humpty dumpty technique...

quake on 0:35 is actually what I'm hearing during the whole recording, glad that recorder has captured that.

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[LtKojak]

Originally Posted by Mouse

Zevs bless George Carlin he knew what he was talking about

Amen to that!

Long live George Carlin, which unfortunately is not among us anymore...

[monty john]

Hey Moose, I didn't know over there that you use Les Paul's as a drum??? hahahhaa

I just turn up Marshall and no more drums.....

Great job bro.

Cheers!!!!

[Mouse]

Originally Posted by monty john

Hey Moose, I didn't know over there that you use Les Paul's as a drum??? hahahhaa

I just turn up Marshall and no more drums.....

You could look at it as a transition from Marshall to Marshall Islands. anyway, who is Moose??? LoL

[Bulatovic]

As promised, but with some delay - a soundclip!!!

Leslie PAF-01.mp3 - File Shared from Box.net - Free Online File Storage

So - the chain:

Gibson Les Paul 1958 VOS (2008) with Leslie rewound Burstbuckers (1-neck and 2-bridge, i suppose)
- Gibson Brite Wires 09-46
- Vox 20ft cable
- Marshall 1979 JMP Superbass (with Metroamp PTP board, 1969 Superbass spec with 0.047uf instead of 0.1uf PI coupling caps)
* Bright Channel, Hi input
* Volume 2 - Treble 6 - Middle 6.5 - Bass 4 - Presence 0
- Marshall 1960A slant box from 1980 with 4 Celestion G12H30 blackback speakers
- Shure SM57 - located 2" away from the grillcloth and 2" from the outer rim of the bottom right speaker
- Alesis Multimix8 USB2.0
- Cubase SX3 - a dash of reverbA

Neck Pickup: 0:00 - 1:24
Both Pickups: 1:24 - 1:56
Bridge Pickup: 1:56 - end

Sorry for sloppy playing


Hope you like it!!!

(There should be a clip of the same gear with overdrive pedals - T-Rex Moller and TS-808 coming quite soon )

[Mouse]

Frankly, nothing worse sounding than 100W Marshall with volume 2 and presence on 0 lets face it, it's dead. And now stop toying with it and dial vol. 6-7 and presence about halfway, let it sing and show that treble. Shoot neighbours if necessary, man's gotta know his priorities

[Bulatovic]

Ok you Treblelover! YOU'LL GET WHAT YOU WANTED!!!

but, please be visiting B92 news in Serbia about a guy murdering his neighbours over very loud guitar playing!

stand by!

[Mouse]

LoL
Let's continue with a wish foundation. I've just heard 'Can't you see' by Marshall Tucker Band on radio and love Toy Caldwell's thumb playing.

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[Mouse]

Very good Lester I must admit, right curves

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[Mouse]

Hoyla guys and girls,
it seems that my w(h)ish foundation is over cause new baby is born, be carefull what you wish for
Now I'm probably dead with my previous tonematching BS cause I have recording of newborn's weep for you to hear. I hope that tone is coming through my hack playing, it's been a month since I've played damn thing and so I'm pretty off the rhythm and that's a fact LoL
I can repair things with some rites, which of course will follow, but for now I got this
tell me what you think
Baby blue

[Bulatovic]

imho - the best clip i've heard in AGES!!!

I HAVE to see/hear/play that LP SOON!!!!


BRAVO!!!

[Mouse]

Thanks bro for listening, hope I'll be in Belgrade soon!
... which reminds me I need some serial number for taking her outside borders or should I tell at customs that she is from Barbados/Brazil/Bosnia? LOL
But before that I'll take her at one high energy place to perform some rites

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[Mouse]

Testing Lester

Distorted soundclip. instead of killing whole neighbourhood and in lack of some attenuation I've used pedals. Not so open sound but the heck worse than using isolation box, not so good LoL
First thing heard thru (wrongly played) ZZ top riff is stock 80's tube screamer and after that my homemade Hexenkreis.Later is idea of distortion pedal with baxandall active tone control which actuall boosts low midds or treble. We can say that TS is more classic rock type of frequencies and Hexe is more midscoop centered. Again waiting (always waiting for something ) for casing and new small pots for Hexe, right now is in my testing project box.


ZZ sot

[gtr-tek]

That's a purdy fiddle there! Sounds good as well! A little ZZ fun for the day! Cool.

[Mouse]

Thanks gtr-tek!
It's been fun to build this guitar and eventually she ended as a nice fiddle but story is just about to begin.
Stay tuned for more witchcraft

[Mouse]

Guys, final rites are not done yet but this fiddle is becoming very alive as far as I can say.
Amp was my Marsh18Watt replica and sound is maybe a little bit on the rough side for this riff. I gave pills to my neighbours to calm down and cotton for ears too. So I recorded two minutes on H2 Zoom recorder live as it is with no modifications or aditives in post production. I just cutted off bad parts because I care for your hearing LoL.
This is also chance to hear my unpotted PAFs in action, so comment freely I need feedback.
LP & Marsh18

[gtr-tek]

Fleetwood Mac eh? No surprise from your avatar... Sounds very convincing to me! Very nice tone! I think you have a winner there! !!!

I'm not sure what more you would want there...

[mdubya]

I am enjoying your thread Mouse. Please keep going.

[Mouse]

You are welcome mdubya bro
@ gtr-tek, well I'm trying to gather a gang for ritual, it will be fun maybe a little scary too. Nothing without ritual otherwise it could become bedroom guitar and that would be no good at all.

I've been working a little too, acid apples for snowhite LOL

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[Bulatovic]

Just gotta love the

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What a beauty

can i witness the ritual? I'll bring some chicken feet...

[Mouse]

Chicken feet from chicken soup?

[jonesy]

Excellent work Mouse, I am really enjoying this thread

[Mouse]

Thanks Jonesy, today's topic will be a little about output transformers.

Making of the RadioSpares/Partridge style OT 3.5K El34


This tone chasing thing is never ending story.when you think you got it enough, an idle mind which is devil's workshop... is already up and playing with transformers design ahh.
Drake 784 139 have myth status among collectors and players but I have decided after listening to 1963 JTM 45 with RadioSpares output transformer to try other winding pattern than simple Drake piece of cake interlieving.
So I have around same numbers like Drake but will do a heavy early hifi Radiospares/Partridge style interleaving and see how it would behave in the circuit, I hope not ampli fire LOL
I opted for slightly thicker secondary and almost got problem getting out of the window, that would be a real pity cause I guided wire by hand from the air without any aid,I used machine to turn the damn thing but it was 8 hours job.
I've heard that RadioSpares OT have more open character with plenty of harmonics which was my target and after I found suitable old audio Iron which had Drake size project started to roll ...

[Mouse]

Well after winding & all technical mess it would be shame not to put this tranny into good amp and fire it up!
But wait, tone results without reference have no validity so I opted for a good reference which would be healthy JTM50 from 1967.
I will put the new output tranny in my 1971 JMP50, ok I know the circuits are not the same but nobody's perfect!
Right away before the recording of the clips we have noticed that this RS style have harmonic complexity even when presence on zero...so standard presence dial 5-7 on marshall scale was unnecessary and rarely above 3 in this recording while '67 presence was around 7.

Keep in mind that new tranny is still virgin, it would be needed around 100 hours to brake in.
Clips are recorded with Strat /SSS/ through fender box loaded with vintage Fane ceramic 2x12".
We found this box better suited to hear small differencies than 4x12 with blackbacks which gave out tough SPL
We didn't use pedals just cable, no channel bridging just bright ch.


Hendrixy Clean
1.'71
2.'67
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Thank you
1. '71 rhythm
2. '67 rhythm
3. '71 solo
4. '67 solo
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Stonesy
1.'67
2.'71
Jumpin'.mp3 - File Shared from Box.net - Free Online File Storage

[jonesy]

Just listened to all the mp3 clips and they all sounded really great. Subtle differences and very vintage sounding Tones, nice playing and thanks for posting those!

[wreckingball]

Originally Posted by jonesy

just listened to all the mp3 clips and they all sounded really great. Subtle differences and very vintage sounding tones, nice playing and thanks for posting those!

+1

[mdubya]

Edited for stupid question. : P