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Aug 17, 2010 23:26:55 GMT
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This evening's answer to the "what shall I do this evening" question ;D Take an old piezo buzzer (I got this one out of an irritating toy ray gun) and solder it to a 1/4" jack socket (either way round is fine). Attach buzzer (which is now a pickup) to mandolin (or other acoustic instrument) with gaffa tape (no substitute). Put the scratchplate back, attach cable, secure with more gaffa. (good stuff, gaffa tape ) Plug into amp and try ;D And it sounded something like this....
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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I have an electric mandolin myself (somewhat cheapy one) and its got a pickup in it, so i've always wanted to try it through a distorted amp. Lots of me wants to attach it to a fuzz pedal.
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cool. can you play bagpuss? scratch that, can you play bluegrass on that thing, what mandolins were invented for.
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75 Range Rover 2 door 82 Range Rover 4 door 84 Range Rover 4 door 78 Datsun 120Y 2 door 78 Datsun 620 Pickup 81 Datsun Urvan E23 86 Datsun Vanette van 98 Electric Citroen Berlingo 00 Electric Peugeot Partner 02 Electric Citroen Berlingo 04 Berlingo Multispace petrol 07 Land Rover 130 15 Nissan E-NV200 15 Fiat Ducato
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Love it! Excellent playing too. I did the same, but used an old wooden wine box. The end result is a stomp box to beat a rhythm out on when playing guitar.
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Peugeot 307sw - Suzuki SV650S - MX5.
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Aug 18, 2010 20:57:27 GMT
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Had a play at the garage now (no noise complaints, lol) Sounds nice through a clean amp but not with distortion - feedback becomes a major issue (not nice feedback either - mic pointed at speaker noise) and it just sounds farty rather than fat. Mind you, it's an ancient transistor amp that I made from bits I found in a skip years ago, it doesn't have the most sophisticated distortion channel (take an op amp, feed it's output back into the input), maybe it will sound better with some digital FX instead.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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chevazon
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Aug 20, 2010 16:37:41 GMT
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Why can`t I hear/see anything you have doen SOC ?
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Aug 20, 2010 18:05:43 GMT
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Brilliant. I feel like mic'ing up some stuff now. Electric elastic band ice cream tub guitar might have to happen ;D
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Fungus
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Aug 20, 2010 19:23:58 GMT
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Awesome!! And the spider 15's are great for the money too
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Aug 21, 2010 11:59:30 GMT
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Chevazon - I don't know? they are just youtube videos.. If you can't view any at all, check that Flash is enabled and working properly.
Jonny - lol. Post a vid if you do ;D
hondaman - yeah, I got it very cheap (about £70) in a stock clearance sale about a year ago, for a cheap practice amp it's astounding.
I made another pickup last night (because I had the soldering iron out, and found another piezo) so I'm going to try it on the homemade violin later on.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Aug 21, 2010 12:03:53 GMT
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Is that a westfield mandolin?
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Aug 21, 2010 12:13:55 GMT
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No, it's an epiphone MM-20.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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chevazon
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Aug 21, 2010 20:23:33 GMT
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Soc - couldn`t see as I had a new computer and hadn`t enabled stuff. God vid. We need to get a duo going !
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Aug 21, 2010 20:40:12 GMT
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haha thanks for bagpuss
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75 Range Rover 2 door 82 Range Rover 4 door 84 Range Rover 4 door 78 Datsun 120Y 2 door 78 Datsun 620 Pickup 81 Datsun Urvan E23 86 Datsun Vanette van 98 Electric Citroen Berlingo 00 Electric Peugeot Partner 02 Electric Citroen Berlingo 04 Berlingo Multispace petrol 07 Land Rover 130 15 Nissan E-NV200 15 Fiat Ducato
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Roobeh
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Aug 23, 2010 23:55:45 GMT
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paused the set i was listening to to have a bagpuss moment, good times.
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Aug 27, 2010 20:10:31 GMT
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Standard way to electrify a basic acoustic cigar box guitar and very cheap. Fantastic mandolin playing by the way. One of the cigarboxnation guys has played with 6/9/12v mobile phone adaptors/transformers. Smash the case off, remove the wires from plug part and circuit board so you have both the transformer coils joined together with the metal bars.
Stick a magnet onto the bottom of the metal bars and then decide which coil bobbin to wire up to a jack plug. You then have a magnetic pickup.
Some people find the mains side gives a better sound, other the stepped down side. Oh and I bought myself a 1940's John E Dallas Banjo Ukelele the other day. Has the printed George Formby signature on it. Shame it isn't a real pen and ink sig.
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Aug 29, 2010 19:30:12 GMT
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clearing out my camera memory card, found another couple of vids. and the violin... which sounded ok, but started to snap in half while I was playing I think I may need to buy a violin. Can't get the neck to stay put on this one
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Dec 24, 2011 20:14:08 GMT
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Thanks for the link SOC.
The more I look, the more intimidated I get.
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kent
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Dec 24, 2011 20:33:34 GMT
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I was not expecting bagpuss! Top picking indeed sir
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crazymonkey
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ummm....what was I doing again???
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Dec 24, 2011 23:14:13 GMT
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ok not only can you make seriously amazing stuff, you can play them amazingly. I am jealous.
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whoever said dogs were man's best friend....obviously never heard of cable ties
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