One of my 'hotrodding' techniques

[valvetronix]

This is a quite unknown process, but for metal guitarists, adds quite a bit of.... 'OOOOOMMMMMFFFFFF' to your tone.

First off, let me say that you NEED atleast a 10k signal from your pickups for it to be effective.

It is a capacitor that wires dirrectly into your signal line before the output from guitar (I wire it onto a 250k Tone pot, which changes that tone pot into a overdrive pot). The part I use is special ordered from a radio repair shop here in Omaha. It is 2 germanium diodes back to back. Germanium diodes clip at 0.3 volts so you NEED the higher output pickups, or nothing will happen.

You can check with local electronic stores to see if you can possibly get the part, and if you do, you can ask me for instructions of wiring.

[shiggityshwa]

That's pretty cool, so if you use a 250k tone pot and wire it to signal line before the out put, it's an overdrive pot? So if you did this you could get overdrive from the pickups, without adjusting your amp?

[valvetronix]

shiggityshwa said:

That's pretty cool, so if you use a 250k tone pot and wire it to signal line before the out put, it's an overdrive pot? So if you did this you could get overdrive from the pickups, without adjusting your amp?

Yep, the tone pot DOSENT work as a tone pot anymore, its a 0-10 slide selector for drive...

[shiggityshwa]

valvetronix said:

shiggityshwa said:

That's pretty cool, so if you use a 250k tone pot and wire it to signal line before the out put, it's an overdrive pot? So if you did this you could get overdrive from the pickups, without adjusting your amp?

Yep, the tone pot DOSENT work as a tone pot anymore, its a 0-10 slide selector for drive...

I would try that on my strat but it's pups are only 6k...

My next project guitar though, will have like 14k on the bridge pickup. I'll probably try it on that and see how it works out.

[valvetronix]

At 14k it should pretty intense!

[shiggityshwa]

valvetronix said:

At 14k it should pretty intense!

Yeah, there was a 16k one that I was looking at but I decided that would be way too much output.

[valvetronix]

HAHA Yeah most likely