Homemade Equipment

nomadicfollower · 03.27.2006, 09:34 PM

Anybody got any cool homemade equipment? I remeber someone posting (on old blue) some crazy guitars they put together. Cool shit.

Me and a friend are going to start build on an all metal guitar tomorrow. It's going to have 6 pickups (if anyone has any cool ideas how we should plac these it would help, vertical, diagnol, etc..) and we're going to try and make an insane amount of switched to change the sound (though I'm sure that will work.

Anyway, post some homemade guitars, amps, pedals, anything. I'd like some inspiration.

HaydenAsche · 03.27.2006, 09:36 PM

I'm in the process of kind of building a sound-machine out of some old broken synthesizers and a kiddy-drum machine.

Пятхъдесят Шест · 03.27.2006, 10:06 PM

Remember that home made thingy Mutant Ape was selling? What ever happened to Mutant Ape???

hey alex · 03.27.2006, 10:15 PM

Awesome thread, I was actually going to out tomorrow and start scoping out parts for my frankentar. Any pointers/tips for building and looking for parts?
What are some good dirty pickups that i could probably find for kinda cheap?

golden child · 03.27.2006, 10:36 PM

im making some contact mics for a show on friday. never done it before, so that should be fun. i intend to put them on a cymbal that will get torn to shit

nomadicfollower · 03.30.2006, 09:06 PM

Never got to make my guitar. My friends brother said that it would be to hard to bend the neck right.

No one's got any pictures of homemade shit?

TheDom · 03.30.2006, 09:08 PM

Hey, what exactly is a contact mic?

nomadicfollower · 03.30.2006, 09:10 PM

Don't know much about them. I believe their just a cheap "noise" mic.

http://home.earthlink.net/~erinys/contactmic.html

How to make one ^^^...

I believe it's what Brian Chippendale puts in his mouth at LB shows.

Lone Flanger · 03.30.2006, 10:36 PM

I put a contact mic under the trem assembly in my guitar. I have one of those guitars with a trem similar to a Jaguar so with a contact mic under it, you get seriously loud amplification of the strings behind the bridge.

doctor dan · 03.31.2006, 06:32 AM

contact mics pick up vibrations in surfaces, as opposed to air. this means you can glue them to things and then bang them. they sound trashy and are shit cheap to make (like $2)

jon boy · 03.31.2006, 05:57 PM

to be hnest most of my shit is home made.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead · 03.31.2006, 09:23 PM

I have a home made pedal board. I didn't make the pedals on it though. I'm more into modifying pedals. I'm modifying my Electro Harmonix frequency analyzer, and buying a few delays to mod out sometime soon.

marleypumpkin · 03.31.2006, 10:59 PM

My father just made an electric. He bought a kit, but built it himself.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead · 03.31.2006, 11:29 PM

Yeah, I just redid a 335 copy with a gold burst and a nickel back.

marleypumpkin · 03.31.2006, 11:34 PM

The kit my father got was a cheap little strat rip off. I think th name was Axle, or something like that. He put the electronics & everything in himself.
He's been an acoustic guitar player his whole playing career, now he finally see's the light.

Inhuman · 03.31.2006, 11:41 PM

My brother's in an industrial band and he has an insturment composed of a guitar neck (with strings) going into a megaphone with a Mic bolted on to it. I always wondered how to hold it

next step · 04.07.2006, 06:28 AM

circa 4 years ago I built a gtr. I bought two pieces of wood that came from a monastery near my town. it's a walnut. then I build this guitar in my garage. I made everything except the neck that comes from a broken epiphone gtr. sounds quite good!

then I built a footswitch to connect devices

03.27.2006, 09:34 PM	#1
nomadicfollower invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: North America Posts: 2,672	Anybody got any cool homemade equipment? I remeber someone posting (on old blue) some crazy guitars they put together. Cool shit. Me and a friend are going to start build on an all metal guitar tomorrow. It's going to have 6 pickups (if anyone has any cool ideas how we should plac these it would help, vertical, diagnol, etc..) and we're going to try and make an insane amount of switched to change the sound (though I'm sure that will work. Anyway, post some homemade guitars, amps, pedals, anything. I'd like some inspiration.
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03.27.2006, 09:36 PM	#2
HaydenAsche invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 10,755	I'm in the process of kind of building a sound-machine out of some old broken synthesizers and a kiddy-drum machine. __________________ rip
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Пятхъдесят Шест invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Omaha, Nebraska, USA Posts: 3,063	Remember that home made thingy Mutant Ape was selling? What ever happened to Mutant Ape???
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03.27.2006, 10:15 PM	#4
hey alex the end of the ugly Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 791	Awesome thread, I was actually going to out tomorrow and start scoping out parts for my frankentar. Any pointers/tips for building and looking for parts? What are some good dirty pickups that i could probably find for kinda cheap? __________________ Duran Duran's 1995 covers album Thank You was recently voted the worst album of all time by a Q magazine poll. Although we respectfully disagree (Sonic Youth's NYC Ghosts & Flowers is clearly the worst album of all time) -Pitchfork (hahahah!) Here's a myspace of my music and 4-track ramblings the electric kites--the jamz of me n my friends
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03.27.2006, 10:36 PM	#5
golden child expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,672	im making some contact mics for a show on friday. never done it before, so that should be fun. i intend to put them on a cymbal that will get torn to shit
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03.30.2006, 09:06 PM	#6
nomadicfollower invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: North America Posts: 2,672	Never got to make my guitar. My friends brother said that it would be to hard to bend the neck right. No one's got any pictures of homemade shit?
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03.30.2006, 09:08 PM	#7
TheDom expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Nashville. Posts: 1,924	Hey, what exactly is a contact mic?
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03.30.2006, 09:10 PM	#8
nomadicfollower invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: North America Posts: 2,672	Don't know much about them. I believe their just a cheap "noise" mic. http://home.earthlink.net/~erinys/contactmic.html How to make one ^^^... I believe it's what Brian Chippendale puts in his mouth at LB shows.
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03.30.2006, 10:36 PM	#9
Lone Flanger little trouble girl Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: 22066 Posts: 79	I put a contact mic under the trem assembly in my guitar. I have one of those guitars with a trem similar to a Jaguar so with a contact mic under it, you get seriously loud amplification of the strings behind the bridge. __________________ registered: 10/27/2001 00:00 posts: 2428 and all that jazz.
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03.31.2006, 06:32 AM	#10
doctor dan bad moon rising Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: bath spa, uk/ nottingham, uk Posts: 157	contact mics pick up vibrations in surfaces, as opposed to air. this means you can glue them to things and then bang them. they sound trashy and are shit cheap to make (like $2) __________________ IT FIT WHEN I WAS A KID
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03.31.2006, 05:57 PM	#11
jon boy invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: psycho battery Posts: 12,161	to be hnest most of my shit is home made.
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03.31.2006, 09:23 PM	#12
SpectralJulianIsNotDead invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 7,409	I have a home made pedal board. I didn't make the pedals on it though. I'm more into modifying pedals. I'm modifying my Electro Harmonix frequency analyzer, and buying a few delays to mod out sometime soon.
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03.31.2006, 10:59 PM	#13
marleypumpkin invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN Posts: 3,193	My father just made an electric. He bought a kit, but built it himself. __________________ "It takes 2 fingers to make the peace sign. Just like it takes 2 people to make love. When you go like this , you're jerking off." -George Carlin
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03.31.2006, 11:29 PM	#14
SpectralJulianIsNotDead invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 7,409	Yeah, I just redid a 335 copy with a gold burst and a nickel back.
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03.31.2006, 11:34 PM	#15
marleypumpkin invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN Posts: 3,193	The kit my father got was a cheap little strat rip off. I think th name was Axle, or something like that. He put the electronics & everything in himself. He's been an acoustic guitar player his whole playing career, now he finally see's the light. __________________ "It takes 2 fingers to make the peace sign. Just like it takes 2 people to make love. When you go like this , you're jerking off." -George Carlin
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03.31.2006, 11:41 PM	#16
Inhuman invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Montreal Posts: 5,807	My brother's in an industrial band and he has an insturment composed of a guitar neck (with strings) going into a megaphone with a Mic bolted on to it. I always wondered how to hold it
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04.07.2006, 06:28 AM	#17
next step the destroyed room Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Italy Posts: 583	circa 4 years ago I built a gtr. I bought two pieces of wood that came from a monastery near my town. it's a walnut. then I build this guitar in my garage. I made everything except the neck that comes from a broken epiphone gtr. sounds quite good! then I built a footswitch to connect devices
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