WeStartToDrift wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:08 pm

They pickup switch in the Les Paul position bothers me more than the trem. I cannot stand guitars with the main PU switch up at the top.

Aren't some Ventures Model Mosrite trems basically just bigsby knockoffs? If so it kinda sets a precedent for putting that style of trem on an offset. In my head, a Mosrite is the closest non-Jazzmaster guitar to a Jazzmaster that was a contemporary.

^That's a very pretty Jazzmaster. I never thought I'd say this when I started messing with these guitars but I think I'd actually miss the rhythm circuit.

Kniferide wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:57 pm Aren't some Ventures Model Mosrite trems basically just bigsby knockoffs? If so it kinda sets a precedent for putting that style of trem on an offset.

Kind of? They both have outboard springs, but the tail pieces are quite different and the Bigsby placement is almost always pushed back too far to do the 'glider' strum thing.

I'm not into Bigsbys at all..

losthighway wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 1:54 pm

Adam_I_III wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 9:14 am Yeah, it has been hot and wet here. Didn't expect such a big movement in 3 days. Bummer. I hate adjusting truss rods.

I avoided it like the plague until I had a luthier out of commission with an illness and an extra 30 minutes in the jam space. It's really not so bad. I always have to check the online pictures to remember which direction does what, but they're totally helpful. Making small moves and then playing a while got me somewhere I'd call better in a relatively low-stress way.

My pickup install might be a different journey.

Thanks for that! I have done them before, but I always feel there's some voodoo to it that I'm missing...

Adam_I_III wrote: Wed Jul 28, 2021 8:30 am
Thanks for that! I have done them before, but I always feel there's some voodoo to it that I'm missing...

Yeah, pickup height, plus bridge height, plus neck curve, plus saddle position/intonation makes for a lot of ways it can go. I don't even mess with nuts.

Yesterday I realized I added a little more relief than was necessary, but the only way I knew for sure was by looking down the barrel of my most recently professionally setup guitar. It seems like just a tiny bit of curve is the standard, like you can just see that it's not flat. I'm still tinkering, but after soldering a bunch of wires for new pickups, just sticking an allen wrench in, giving it a quarter turn and then playing seems very safe and clean.

penningtron wrote: Wed Jul 28, 2021 8:19 am the Bigsby placement is almost always pushed back too far to do the 'glider' strum thing.

A little duct tape and a half a drumstick can improve this problem.

Line level TRS on one end of a cable means that the XLR end will still be line level when it plugs into the speaker, right?

turnbullac wrote: Wed Jul 28, 2021 4:07 pm Line level TRS on one end of a cable means that the XLR end will still be line level when it plugs into the speaker, right?

yes.

Kniferide wrote: Wed Jul 28, 2021 4:26 pm

turnbullac wrote: Wed Jul 28, 2021 4:07 pm Line level TRS on one end of a cable means that the XLR end will still be line level when it plugs into the speaker, right?

yes.

Also keep in mind, if the TRS output is actually an unbalanced TS output, then the Ring will be shorted to ground (the "S") and your output will be 6 dB lower (0.707 V instead of 1.414 V). Not a big deal, you'll just need to make up the lost 6 dB of gain.

jason from volo wrote: Thu Jul 29, 2021 8:04 am Why is 78 RPM hardly used any more on new records?

Probably the biggest reason is the lack of turntables that can play 78 RPM. The speed was out of fashion for too long.