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Old 03.27.2006, 09:34 PM   #1
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Anybody got any cool homemade equipment? I remeber someone posting (on old blue) some crazy guitars they put together. Cool shit.

Me and a friend are going to start build on an all metal guitar tomorrow. It's going to have 6 pickups (if anyone has any cool ideas how we should plac these it would help, vertical, diagnol, etc..) and we're going to try and make an insane amount of switched to change the sound (though I'm sure that will work.


Anyway, post some homemade guitars, amps, pedals, anything. I'd like some inspiration.
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Old 03.27.2006, 09:36 PM   #2
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I'm in the process of kind of building a sound-machine out of some old broken synthesizers and a kiddy-drum machine.
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Old 03.27.2006, 10:06 PM   #3
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Remember that home made thingy Mutant Ape was selling? What ever happened to Mutant Ape???
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Old 03.27.2006, 10:15 PM   #4
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Awesome thread, I was actually going to out tomorrow and start scoping out parts for my frankentar. Any pointers/tips for building and looking for parts?
What are some good dirty pickups that i could probably find for kinda cheap?
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Old 03.27.2006, 10:36 PM   #5
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im making some contact mics for a show on friday. never done it before, so that should be fun. i intend to put them on a cymbal that will get torn to shit
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Old 03.30.2006, 09:06 PM   #6
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Never got to make my guitar. My friends brother said that it would be to hard to bend the neck right.

No one's got any pictures of homemade shit?
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Old 03.30.2006, 09:08 PM   #7
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Hey, what exactly is a contact mic?
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Old 03.30.2006, 09:10 PM   #8
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Don't know much about them. I believe their just a cheap "noise" mic.

http://home.earthlink.net/~erinys/contactmic.html


How to make one ^^^...


I believe it's what Brian Chippendale puts in his mouth at LB shows.
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Old 03.30.2006, 10:36 PM   #9
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I put a contact mic under the trem assembly in my guitar. I have one of those guitars with a trem similar to a Jaguar so with a contact mic under it, you get seriously loud amplification of the strings behind the bridge.
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Old 03.31.2006, 06:32 AM   #10
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contact mics pick up vibrations in surfaces, as opposed to air. this means you can glue them to things and then bang them. they sound trashy and are shit cheap to make (like $2)
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Old 03.31.2006, 05:57 PM   #11
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to be hnest most of my shit is home made.
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Old 03.31.2006, 09:23 PM   #12
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I have a home made pedal board. I didn't make the pedals on it though. I'm more into modifying pedals. I'm modifying my Electro Harmonix frequency analyzer, and buying a few delays to mod out sometime soon.
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My father just made an electric. He bought a kit, but built it himself.
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The kit my father got was a cheap little strat rip off. I think th name was Axle, or something like that. He put the electronics & everything in himself.
He's been an acoustic guitar player his whole playing career, now he finally see's the light.
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Old 03.31.2006, 11:41 PM   #16
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My brother's in an industrial band and he has an insturment composed of a guitar neck (with strings) going into a megaphone with a Mic bolted on to it. I always wondered how to hold it
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Old 04.07.2006, 06:28 AM   #17
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circa 4 years ago I built a gtr. I bought two pieces of wood that came from a monastery near my town. it's a walnut. then I build this guitar in my garage. I made everything except the neck that comes from a broken epiphone gtr. sounds quite good!

 


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