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Reply #15 - Sep 20th, 2005 at 6:08pm

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Shouldn't be too hard, basiclly you connect eh red wire to the other red wire and so on. But you should definatly read the book.
 
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Reply #16 - Sep 20th, 2005 at 6:35pm

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Unless you really, really know how to do it, you might consider getting a pro to wire the pickups, switches and jack.  Even if you want to "I did it all myself".

Customizing is fun, but wiring might be another story, and if it doesn't go right, someone will have to fix it. You'd be better off going in to a pro with clean parts, otherwise the pro is gonna have to unsolder and re-solder, and it could get messy.  There's also some other things that could happen:  ground hum or other noise, incorrect phasing, etc.  And you don't want a wire coming loose either.  It would be a good experience if you could do it, but is this the guitar you want to practice soldering on?

So consider it carefully.  And thanks for keeping us updated on this.  Cheers!
 
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Reply #17 - Sep 21st, 2005 at 3:55am

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Shouldn't be too hard, basiclly you connect eh red wire to the other red wire and so on. But you should definatly read the book.


  There are no wires to connect to, only the posts on the 5 position switch.


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Unless you really, really know how to do it, you might consider getting a pro to wire the pickups, switches and jack.  Even if you want to "I did it all myself".

Customizing is fun, but wiring might be another story, and if it doesn't go right, someone will have to fix it. You'd be better off going in to a pro with clean parts, otherwise the pro is gonna have to unsolder and re-solder, and it could get messy.  There's also some other things that could happen:  ground hum or other noise, incorrect phasing, etc.  And you don't want a wire coming loose either.  It would be a good experience if you could do it, but is this the guitar you want to practice soldering on?

So consider it carefully.  And thanks for keeping us updated on this.  Cheers!


  I would never pay someone to do something I can figure out myself, even though it may be a trial and error thing. I see your point as far as the various things that could go wrong but I don't think it will be that difficult.
Another advantage I have is that I own another guitar of the exact same model and pickup setup, so I will most likely open that one up and study how the pickups are wired, this shouldn't be a big deal once I dive into it, and I have done plenty of soldering so I'm not concerned about that.
 

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Reply #18 - Sep 21st, 2005 at 10:05am

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Sounds like it'll be OK then, so go for it.
 
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Reply #19 - Sep 25th, 2005 at 12:22pm

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Well seeing as how you have soldering experience and a good example to go off of, then you should be ok.. Smiley
 
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Reply #20 - Nov 26th, 2005 at 4:53pm

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any updates?
 
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Reply #21 - Nov 27th, 2005 at 5:02am

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For me the best pickups are the Emg and Dimarzio....
my guitars http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=music;action=display;num=1....... bottom of page 2
I use to like a pedal effect called - Boss - Digital Metalizer....
 
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Reply #22 - Nov 30th, 2005 at 7:32pm

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 It's all together and playable, I just played around at the wiring and soldered it together where they sounded best, only the bridge humbucker though, screw the single coils, not sure what to do with the holes right now, I hate single coils, but Guitar Center is running a special on Duncan stacked pickups for $29.00, maybe I'll stick those in the holes for looks and wire them later. Sounds good, plays great.

I just bought a transparent red quilted NJ series Warlock with the speedloader trem, so that is the flavor of the week right now, absolutely beautiful guitar, I'll try to get a pic of that one up too.

I'll maybe post a pic of the finished Jackson project at some point, but from now until Christmas it's pretty much 60+ hour work weeks so don't expect to see me around here too much.

 Here's a quick pic of the Warlock, it just happened to be sitting here so I snapped one, there was also a cool picture I took of my studio the other night on the card so I'll just resize them and post them now, the Jackson is away in a case so I'll try to get to that maybe Sunday (working all day Saturday).

Here is Warlock number 4:
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Here's the studio at night, thats Warlock #3 (the hot pink one) in the picture.
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 After playing a Beast, Mockingbird, Bich and Dagger (my other BC Rich's) the Warlock is still my all-time favorite guitar, I am digging the Jacksons (strat style) though, I have 2 DK2's and a DX10, I am eyeing a USA custom built bengal tiger striped SLH2, the cost is high but man it looks like a nice axe, so I am considering selling my Beast and one of my Jacksons to offset the cost if I decide to go for it, I would love to own one of the custom USA built Warlocks but you are talking upwards of $2500.00 in most cases, a little out of my range at this time.

I would like to get my hands on one of the red and black virgo's with the blood drop markers on the neck, used to see them a lot on ebay but there are pretty rare anymore.
 

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Reply #23 - Dec 1st, 2005 at 12:34pm

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...Very nice....are you the Owner of that studio?
Man....with equipments like that I'll could record many Metal hits..... musics that I still have unpublished and only I know the results.....I have no more guitars. I abandoned the career got married and I became father Smiley....but I still want to play one day.... Smiley
Again very nice....
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Reply #24 - Dec 1st, 2005 at 6:50pm

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...Very nice....are you the Owner of that studio?


  Thanks, yes this is my little home studio I have been putting together piece by piece, it's come a long way from the little setup I had in the late 90's, I had a Fostex DMT-8, a Digitech RP-10 and a Yamaha PSR-80 keyboard, along with my original NJ series Warlock (#1) and a cheap bass, I recorded a couple of really awesome tapes and would give copies of them away, it was a good time.

  I have a much better income now and I don't drink, smoke or do drugs anymore so I am a lot more focused, the only problem now is even though I continuously buy new toys for my studio, I barely have time to play around in it due to working so much.

In case you haven't read in other posts, I work at the Humvee plant, and with the current situation in the world, the demand for Humvee's is very high which means many hours at work and the word is that next year we are to expect even more hours, so even though it's nice to have money to spend, sometimes I debate in my mind if it's worth it to not have a life other than working all the time, oh well, I guess it comes down to how you manage your free time.

  The rack gear sitting behind the Warlock sits just to the left of the desk in the studio picture, everytime I add a new piece of gear, some part of my recordings improve, I just hooked up with a Helicon Voiceprism off ebay, I can't wait to play around with that thing when it arrives.
  I only wish I had more time to write and record, I just released a CD October 29th that took me 6 months to write and record 8 songs, (by "released" I mean I finished it up and gave it to my friends and family who I thought would like it) the title is "Where's the head?" and it is my first attempt at a concept album. It's about a serial killer who has a fetish for taking the heads of his victims home and keeping them in his fridge until he decides to get them out and use them for a little personal pleasure, then when the heads start to get too funky, he throws them into the ocean and sets out to find some new ones, he eventually gets paranoid and kills himself, it's a nice little tale for the whole family to enjoy.

  It turned out okay, I'm not a perfectionist so there are a lot of rough edges, everyone seems to enjoy it and hasn't been too critical, I have begun work on my next CD and have one song complete, I'm going for a little darker and gloomier sound this time, WTH kinda experimented with several different styles of metal and even sounds that were very un-metal, but the overall flow was excellent, on the next project I plan to make a more professional sounding recording and pay more attention to fixing little mistakes that I let go on "Where's the head?".

  I thought about sending WTH out to some record companies just to see if I could get any reactions, but most of what I read in The songwriters market guide talks about bands, I am through with bands, it would be cool if someone thought my stuff was interesting enough to distribute, but I am no longer interested in playing in bands, I just want to create and record music on my own terms, but I am sure I am one of a million who do the same.
I listen to a lot of music and I'm confident that my stuff is worthy of a following just as much so as some of the crap I've seen make the big time over the years, just wish I had more time to put into it.
 

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Reply #25 - Dec 2nd, 2005 at 5:26am

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I don't drink, smoke or do drugs anymore...

...but I am no longer interested in playing in bands, I just want to create and record music on my own terms, but I am sure I am one of a million who do the same....

...I listen to a lot of music and I'm confident that my stuff is worthy of a following just as much so as some of the crap I've seen make the big time over the years, just wish I had more time to put into it.....


You describe some of my life now....incredible similarity
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Reply #26 - Dec 2nd, 2005 at 6:11am

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Tell me Paz...are you also an aviation enthusiast?
Im wondering cause I cant remeber to see any of your shots at the screenshot's forums ???
 
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