The amount of controls possible on a guitar.

[Flie]

How many controls can you pu into a guitar? (minus pedals etc and built in effects) I mean like the les paul recording has low and high output switches n stuff so what else can you stick in?

[sunshineplaysbass]

I saw a guys custom guitar that had 6 "lipstick" pups, like the ones on teles, and each of them had 2 knobs, plus your basic volume and tone knobs, so it had like 16 knobs..

[Flie]

I don't think teles have lipsticks in em. Yeah tahts pretty cool though but I mean like doing laodsa things.

[neatobassman]

putting in/out of phase, series/parallel, active tone, pickup switching, killswitch, bypass tone electronics, and volume and tone.

[Tryxx]

EQ (Which could be endless.)
Bandwidth/Frequency
In/Out Phase
Series/Parallel
Killswitch
Volume
Blend
Afterburner/Gain
Bypass
Active/Passive Switch

Probably a lot more.

[Polyamarous]

Do guitars have active circuits? I've never seen one before.....

[sunshineplaysbass]

I don't think teles have lipsticks in em. Yeah tahts pretty cool though but I mean like doing laodsa things.

i thought a tele's neck pickup is called a lipstick?
well anyways it had like 6 of those, tele neck pup, whatever you call them

[Peg Dizzler]

They're just a really small single coil, not exactly a lipstick.

Tryxx pretty much hit the head of the nail, you could have an endless amount of knobs.. :lol:

[azn_bassist]

Do guitars have active circuits? I've never seen one before.....


sometimes they have mid-boosting circuits
http://guitarelectronics.zoovy.com/product/PAEC
like that, Eric Clapton Mid Boost

[EADG]

Basses can have a "slap switch" which cuts the midrange.

[shinobidice]

Many EMG pickups are active pickups. You can add on active controls like boosts, eq type stuff, and all that jazz. It's less common for guitars to have active pups than basses it seems

[the101er]

Can someone explain what an 'Afterburner' is?

[AG]

Can someone explain what an 'Afterburner' is?


It's EMG's name for a variable gain boost switch.


I don't know why, but guitarists are alot less likely to accept active electronics than bassists. For some reason, 90% of us feel changing a battery every 3 months is alot of hassle.

Not me though, I have 3 9v batteries in my guitar :cool:

The amount of electronics gizmo's you can buy/make for your guitar is endless. The only thing stopping you is room/money, and perhaps you don't really need all that stuff?

[Flie]

Well thanx a lot guys this stuff is really good.

[neatobassman]

It's EMG's name for a variable gain boost switch.


I don't know why, but guitarists are alot less likely to accept active electronics than bassists. For some reason, 90% of us feel changing a battery every 3 months is alot of hassle.

Not me though, I have 3 9v batteries in my guitar :cool:

The amount of electronics gizmo's you can buy/make for your guitar is endless. The only thing stopping you is room/money, and perhaps you don't really need all that stuff?

what do you have in your guitar? and I haven't had to change my battery in my bass in like a year. lol. But for awhile there I did like every 5 days.

[Akira]

Many EMG pickups are active pickups. You can add on active controls like boosts, eq type stuff, and all that jazz. It's less common for guitars to have active pups than basses it seems
Do you mean active electronics?