Ideas for short small drawn enclosure?

They could indeed -- but that could be lessened somewhat by the pattern of connecting the strings in series to make the equivalent of a non-inductive wirewound resistor. (Unless you really want to amplify each string separately, this should be possible. Just connect every other string together at the nut (tuner end), and the 2nd and 3rd, and the 4th and 5th at the bridge end, and pick up the signal between the bridge end of the 1st and 6th strings. Similar (with fewer total loops) for a bass. The only problem would be with an instrument with an odd number of strings, such as a 5-string banjo -- which I've never seen with pickups anyway. :-)

This would not do much to cancel hum from a small close source, but for any reasonable distance, it would be fine. (Hmm ... perhaps if you had one of the old Accutron watches, you might pick up from that. :-) I do know that they could be picked up with a close coil or insufficiently shielded tape head.

Agreed. But don't most "serious" audiophiles fit that description?

If you are pumping enough amps into that 8-ohm load, you *might* see a bit more (measurable) voltage drop in the 12-ga. wire -- but *I* don't want to be in the same house with those speakers, no matter *how* inefficient they may happen to be. :-)

There is adequate reason to use heavier wire gauges in sound reenforcement setups for rock performances in large venues -- but even there I don't think they use anything *that* big -- except to route power *to* the stack of amps. :-)

But the image of winding that stuff into a pickup coil just has to bring smiles.

Enjoy, DoN.

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Zero makes stock drawn boxes. It is possible to order them untrimmed, which means they have an irregular flange around the opening that might be trimmed into mounting tabs. They come smooth and wrinkle-free.

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Charles Erskine

DoN. Nichols wrote: sometimes a secondary cup shield which closes down once

You realize that you and I are probably the last two guys on the planet to have ruined their hearing by punching the machine into rewind without opening the head gate/tape lifters.

This is a _bragging_ bass, not a _playing_ bass :)

Kevin Gallimore

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axolotl

But Ted, you don't understand. The TDR doesn't measure squinkiness. And Monster cable definitely sounds more squinky.

A long, long time ago I used to push air for Rock and Roll bands. The stage monitor mix was always a problem. I ended up dropping my hands behind the meter bridge (where they couldn't be seen from the stage) and telling the performer to "tell me when it sounds right". They would say "testing" and moan into the microphone for a while and then yell out "yea, that's it". Then I would lift my hands. Worked every time.

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An interesting variation on the Danelectro "lipstick" pickup :)

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On Mon, 10 May 2004 19:14:25 -0400, axolotl brought forth from the murky depths:

Speaking of them, anyone else have the eStudio guitar preamp/ headphone amp by Danelectro? I picked one up last month and it's hissy as hell, even with the volume control all the way down. Is that normal for the cheap little SOBs? With all the EEs here, I figure someone has a noise-damping preamp circuit for it. ;)

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So they do. I was so busy making things difficult for myself I forgot all about them. Thanks!

Kevin Gallimore

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axolotl

I can't help much here. You have to work to design a bad preamp cuicuit these days. They had to call in some foreign experts. Danelectro, of course, is no longer Danelectro. The original folded in 1969. Someone found the corporate name, performed a voodoo ceremony over it, and made a corporate zombie for marketing purposes.

Kevin Gallimore

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Martin H. Eastburn

You were probably using the lamp cord with the brown insulation - it is the most common. The stuff with the white insulation has _far_ more squink. ;-)

Ted

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On Mon, 10 May 2004 21:00:16 -0400, axolotl brought forth from the murky depths:

They also don't answer any of their email (the addreses of which they hide from the public on "secret" pages of their website.) Feh!

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But that with transparent insulation lets you *see* the squink. :-)

Enjoy, DoN.

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Service is through their distributor, Hanson:

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On Tue, 11 May 2004 17:47:55 -0400, axolotl brought forth from the murky depths:

I'm purple already after visiting their incomplete website. Luckily, the amp works fine, it's just white-noisy when it should be nice and quiet. C'est la vie.

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Do you have the skills to build your own? It shouldn't be a huge problem. Even back in the mid '60s I built an RIAA phono preamp with noise so low that we had to carefully orient the phono turntable in the middle of the room to minimize hum. No noise was audible. I would expect a guitar pickup to produce similar levels.

Ted

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On Thu, 13 May 2004 18:08:39 GMT, Ted Edwards brought forth from the murky depths:

I was a tech for only 3 years, but I could probably throw something together. I thought the little eStudio would be a fun toy, and that's precisely what it is. I expected a quiet toy, though. This thing sounds like Waimea (y'know, Hawaii's North Shore) in Winter.

I did build a small amp for the guitar. One channel of a 35 year-old stereo phono amp, an old Pioneer HPM-40 speaker (blown woofer, 45 y/o

12" full range speaker installed), and a 1/4" jack did the trick. It works but isn't very loud. Maybe I can rig up a little FET or op-amp preamp...

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Some of the recent op-amp IC's would likely be pretty good. The pre-amp I refered to, I designed in the mid '60s. It was a (relatively) low gain, wide bandwidth op-amp using discrete junction transistors. As of the mid '70s there still wasn't any IC op-amps that could compete on either noise or distortion performance but that was over thirty years ago. I did hear from sombody at U of Alberta a year or so ago that that circuit was still very popular for high fidelity audio applications.

Ted

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On Fri, 14 May 2004 16:47:57 GMT, Ted Edwards brought forth from the murky depths:

Did you say you couldn't find the schematic, Ted?

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I'll have a look. When I dig it up, I'll post it to the dropbox. I'm not sure I have a copy in amchine readable form (this predates PC's), I may have to trace it from one of the op-amps.

BTW, while diging through some my reference data, I had a look at the TI TL072 specs. You might want to try one out. If you do, let us know what you think of it.

Ted

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On Sun, 16 May 2004 18:30:28 GMT, Ted Edwards brought forth from the murky depths:

Great, thanks.

Gee, it doesn't have nearly enough distortion. ;) I"ll download the PDF and take a gander. Thx.

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