Re: The Big(ish) Idea

[Jon Southwood <jsouthwood@gmail.com>]

Here's a link to the guitar/guitarist I was thinking of. I was wrong,
though: he's using it to control a whammy pedal. Go to
http://musegear.fobbedoff.net/ and follow the link to the Black Manson
guitar. (This was from a thread about other ways to control pitch
shift in the VG-8 on the VG-8 list.)

Cheers,

Jon

On 9/19/05, Jon Southwood <jsouthwood@gmail.com> wrote:
> David Torn has a guitar made by Koll Guitars with a metal plate that's
> wired to control voltage-controlled gear. I imagine it could be used
> for that kind of thing.
> 
> But, I think I remember who you're thinking of. I just can't find the
> e-mail thread. If I remember correctly, it was a British guitarist who
> had a guy do all sorts of crazy wiring to various guitars, including
> one with a similar touch plate idea to what I described above with
> DT's Koll guitar.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jon
> 
> On 9/19/05, Doug Cox <dougcox@pdq.net> wrote:
> > Yeah, it may have been him.  Good units, those looopers.
> >
> > But, what I also remember was that the guy had moved the electronics
> > into his own guitar, and had setup a "touch plate" on his guitar as the
> > switch.  So he could get these really fast mutes going, just by tapping
> > the touch plate.
> >
> > I've searched forums over there and can't find the post.  This could
> > have been up to 2 years ago, though, so that doesn't surprise me.
> >
> > Dig
> >
> > Sean Echevarria wrote:
> >
> > > oh yeah - http://www.loooper.com/ - look for the stutter option on 
>the
> > > custom options page.
> > >
> > >
> > > At 2005.09.19 12:57 PM, Doug Cox wrote:
> > >
> > >> An effects builder (can't remember which one) on the Harmony Central
> > >> Effects forum used to build these switches on request.  Very very
> > >> small box with a single non-latching type switch.
> > >> Not dissing the idea, just letting you know that it's been done (and
> > >> should be very easy to build).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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