ironmike Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 i had to replace my pots on my 20 year old 150..there were 300k pots , i replaced them with the cts 500k pots, 22 mic caps(same ones) good stuff, that guitar has nice control now, i went with the modern wiring, cap bridges from outer lug on volume pot to the tone pot.love these guitars! had to pull a post too in order to get a good bridge ground, i used some copper braide wire , should last a lifetime.
fxdx99 Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 I picked up on that in the Doug/Pat Show vid below (~8:40 mark). Swapped mine to 500K as well and did open up the top end. Subsequently I've moved the bridge back to 300K to temper a bit of the bright high end which seems to work (to me... in this guitar) best for that pickup.
ironmike Posted March 30, 2015 Author Posted March 30, 2015 well, the 500k in both work well here, good blending ability,the pickups are shaller's, good even responce and a good curve across the tone and volume pots.
rockabilly69 Posted April 3, 2015 Posted April 3, 2015 I picked up on that in the Doug/Pat Show vid below (~8:40 mark). Swapped mine to 500K as well and did open up the top end. Subsequently I've moved the bridge back to 300K to temper a bit of the bright high end which seems to work (to me... in this guitar) best for that pickup. I love those guys, here I am sporting my Doug & Pat Show T-Shirt at a recent gig!
fxdx99 Posted April 3, 2015 Posted April 3, 2015 I love those guys, here I am sporting my Doug & Pat Show T-Shirt at a recent gig! Cool shirt! And cool pic. Mic'ing your acoustic... you can get enough volume/control feedback in a live setting, eh?
rockabilly69 Posted April 6, 2015 Posted April 6, 2015 Cool shirt! And cool pic. Mic'ing your acoustic... you can get enough volume/control feedback in a live setting, eh? the main source from my guitar is from the internal B-Band xom2.2 pickup system which is a dual source system which combines a UST and a soundboard transducer called the AST. I find pickup systems are weakest in heavy strumming situations, so when I'm strumming I back up the pickup and mix in the mic which has a very tight pattern. I don't use monitors so I don't have the problem with feedback that some have. My guitar gets ridiculously loud!!!
fxdx99 Posted April 6, 2015 Posted April 6, 2015 the main source from my guitar is from the internal B-Band xom2.2 pickup system which is a dual source system which combines a UST and a soundboard transducer called the AST. I find pickup systems are weakest in heavy strumming situations, so when I'm strumming I back up the pickup and mix in the mic which has a very tight pattern. I don't use monitors so I don't have the problem with feedback that some have. My guitar gets ridiculously loud!!! Interesting - thanks for that info. I've become less and less enthralled with on board piezo stuff... but it is convenient. The main gig I use acoustic on is where we plug into a house system that pipes it thru the (Cadillac Ranch at MOA) place's audio system, all those speakers in the ceiling. I mix our monitor and that's the feed that gets sent out. I hear tell we sound incredible in the bathrooms... Side bar on Doug/Pat. Last night we were talking music with our kids, 80s stuff that they kinda recall watching MTV with us and we hit upon Quarterflash. I called up a recent local tv spot that they'd done with Doug on guitar with them (think he used that cool Vox amp). And then segued over to the Doug/Pat show... where I quickly lost their interest ('ha, dad - that looks/sounds like you and your friends talking... boring!').
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