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Hi guys, it's me again......I was just going through a
bunch of web surf info stuff I hadn't yet had a chance
to read and stumbled into Matt Q's comment on loosing
highs on a Jazzmaster or Jaguar when turing the volume
back.....Here is how to fix it....Pop off the pick
guard next time you restring and hop down to Radio
Shack and pick up a 1000 pico farad ceramic
capacitor....solder this across the two leads on your
volume pot that are not soldered to pot itself (hot
side to wiper). bingo, MAJOR improvement. Now, try
this one......add a 1 meg resistor across the hot side
of each pot to its respecive case (ground) and guess
what? an approximate 500K pot with a much smoother
taper.......all easy mods and easy to undo if you
don't like 'em. I've tried all sorts of values for
these mods and the ones mentioned seemed to give the
most musical overall performance....Way easy on a
Jaguar, so easy it should be illegal.......Eddie the
madman Katcher
--- reventlos <> wrote:
> Hi Rio---I've been using a compressor for years, but
> probably not in
> the manner in which you're thinking. I use mine
> mostly like a stomp
> box. This is my favorite solution for the age-old
> problem of how to
> get from a clean rhythm sound to a decent lead level
> without adding
> unnatural distortion or turning the amp up. I like
> 'em because most of
> the time I want a good clean boost that doesn't
> color the sound of my
> guitar. I set the level on my old MIJ Boss CS-2 on
> max and the sustain
> anywhere from 3-5. It doesn't act like a
> compressor, it just slams the
> reverb and amp with a hotter signal when I want to
> solo. This set-up
> also helps with some guitars' (particularly
> Jazzmasters and Gibsons)
> annoying habit of losing highs when not on 10. I'll
> set my amp for the
> rhythm sound and level I want with the guitar wide
> open, then hit the
> compressor for solos. Works great for me. To
> answer your actual
> question, I don't generally use the compressor when
> chording live,
> because if the level is down and the sustain is up,
> the signal is too
> squashed and removes any dynamics from your
> playing---everything is the
> same volume no matter how hard or soft you play
> (good for studio, bad
> for live, IMO). Although you can spend big $ on
> boutique compressors,
> I say get a cheapo Dano Surf'n'Turf and experiment.
>
>
> Have fun, Matt Q.
>
> > Anybody use a compressor when playing live?
> Rio
>
>
>
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