![]() A friendly knob-based interface makes it simple to dial in great sounds in seconds, while easily selectable operation modes offer the flexibility of individual stompbox-style on/off or instant recall of complex multi-effects setups. ![]() Mobile, battery powered, and filled with a diverse selection of flagship-quality BOSS amps and effects, the ME-80 is the ideal compact tone processor for performing guitarists. I find it does sort of force the ears into focus, or allows them to more easily.Īll that being said, I’m off to try some more of your plugins.Discontinued Hands-On Access to a World of Great Tones The immediate absence of WIZZ-BANG GUI activity is actually refreshing. I’m in the process of discovering/playing with your vst’s. I don’t know that any of this has any relevant significance to what I at first glance thought was perhaps… another fantastic Airwindows product! Now how about that? That might be an interesting project. Why am I telling you all this? I’m not entirely certain myself. This leaves me with more combinations than I actually know how to calculate. Three 3X3 mini toggle switches have replaced the traditional 5 way lever switch providing neck and bridge humbuckers options for series, parallel or off, and the single coil in the middle is off, on, on-reverse phase. I spent all this money and in haste (not having and more money for even a hack saw) my guitar began its descent into role of Main and Project Guitar. ![]() I ended up using pliers and a vice to break it off somewhat evenly. I’m thinking I might have to give this a go on what was at one point a really nice Ibanez 540 LTD… before I did a few simple things to it, the dings and scratches accrued, I began installing a Roland midi pickup near the bridge and discovered that it wouldn’t really fit. I have some background in electronics as well. ![]() How does the Samick in question feel/play? I am an avid Zappa fanatic and guitarist. I have to have a screwdriver to change the battery, but… no routing! And the Ringer/battery sit there waiting for that switch to go DOWN and engage hyperdrive… The switch both turns the Ringer on and off, and turns the power on and off (it was a DPDT switch and the other half was going unused). If it’s something unusual like this that I can’t post in normal plugin-posting places, feel free to link to it in other places that are more suitable :)Īnd to top it off, here’s a series of pictures: I built the circuitboard from the Green Ringer and a 9V battery into the control cavity of my (Samick) SG… WITHOUT routing, or removing any pots. I’d like to see it continue to expand, so I’ll keep on making stuff: plugins, obviously, but whatever else I can come up with. These sorts of researches (and documenting them on video like this) is supported by my Patreon. They will only know that there’s something distinctive about your playing, because the effect highlights elements of your touch and your sound, and ends up sounding like you… transformed. And though you can get ‘ring modulator’ type effects out of a Green Ringer circuit, if you pick your notes wisely, nobody need ever know that you’re using a full-wave rectifier and altering your tone hugely. It’s a full-wave rectifier, much like any sort of guitar distortion is ‘clipping’. And as long as you can control the ringing of unused strings and play crisply and cleanly, this effect will work with just about any style and context. Muted or flubbed notes turn into octave-up notes (as do very high notes, a terrific result!). Normal notes develop this packed-up, charged electricity to them. And, at least with my Samick SG and reissue Green Ringer, I can build it into the SG without routing or removing controls, and I have done. And it will not automatically make you sound like Frank… but it will mutate YOUR sound into a sort of hypercharged, octave-boosted version of your sound, with many similar effects. It’s way more adaptable to any single-note-lead playing guitarist than you’d think. The Dan Armstrong ‘Green Ringer’ (or even a reissue, like the one I have) is far more significant to Frank Zappa’s solo tone than I’d imagined, with instances built into his famous SG and also a Strat (I think I hear this effect on ‘Watermelon In Easter Hay’), and here’s the deal… I was just rebuilding an SG copy I own (Samick guitar, real bridge/tailpiece/pickups except the pickup baseplates were so worn out I had to put the Gibson pickups on Ibanez baseplates) when I discovered something.
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