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#11

General Questions / Re: LDRs to use Vomit Comst

Last post by Hefty - January 12, 2025, 06:20:37 PM

Thank you, That info helps alot

#12

Open Discussion / Re: Guitar too dark / hardware...

Last post by gordo - January 12, 2025, 04:40:11 PM

Pine tends to disperse vibrations slightly (I think of it as being warm...in a good way) but nothing about your combo of parts that would suggest a dark sounding platform.  One interesting experiment if the steel saddles doesn't help is to capo the neck at the first or second fret and see if that makes a difference acoustically.  Not sure if you're using string trees or not so that span between the nut and tuners may be sapping a bit of brightness.

Damn fine looking guitar in the meantime!  That body is gorgeous.

#13

Open Discussion / Re: Guitar too dark / hardware...

Last post by Tremster - January 12, 2025, 12:02:59 PM

Sorry, busy weekend.

Warmoth Boatneck roasted maple
Oiled roasted pine body with Strat contours
Tonerider AC2 Humbuckers
G&L PTB wiring (aka Reverend Bass contour), parallel/serial switch for each pickup via push/pull

I will start with steel saddles first and see how that works out.

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#14

General Questions / Uncover Intimate Connections.

Last post by chriswee85 - January 12, 2025, 08:23:30 AM

Uncover Intimate Connections.

#15

Open Discussion / Re: Guitar too dark / hardware...

Last post by gordo - January 12, 2025, 01:10:05 AM

I worked on 5 strats today.  Squire thru vintage and all sounded different, but all sounded not too far off how they sounded acoustically.

#16

Open Discussion / Re: LDRs to use Vomit Comst

Last post by Hefty - January 12, 2025, 12:06:26 AM

Thank you for the quick reply. Was fetting set to order from Sbear so this helps.

#17

General Questions / Re: LDRs to use Vomit Comst

Last post by mauman - January 11, 2025, 11:02:42 PM

Pretty much anything should work.  In the build doc you posted, the designer said they used LDR's from Tayda, and all the ones there are around 10k-20k resistance in the light, and 500k to 1Meg in the dark.  Most of them have peak sensitivity around 650 nm (red), with one peaking around 560 nm (green).  You could select an LED color to match, although the build doc mentions using orange diffused LEDs which are halfway between @ 600 nm.

#18

Open Discussion / Re: Guitar too dark / hardware...

Last post by jimilee - January 11, 2025, 03:18:05 PM

Although, if it doesn't resonate acoustically, that's more of a guitar body issue. I had a bass that Justus see terrible no matter what I did. I finally replaced the body, it sounds amazing now.


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#19

General Questions / LDRs to use Vomit Comst

Last post by Hefty - January 11, 2025, 12:23:56 AM

Wondering what whould be the the right spec for the LDRs to use in the Vomet Comet pedal build. I recieved the pcd in a grab bag and would like to build it but In the Docs can find which ones to use. Any help

#20

Open Discussion / Re: Guitar too dark / hardware...

Last post by gordo - January 11, 2025, 12:14:08 AM

Pics please and what's the details?  Body wood, neck wood, string-thru vs top-load, neck joint, etc... can all play a factor.  What's sucking all the top end out of the guitar as a whole is what you're looking to find.