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does anyone know any free renderers for mac in sketchup?
yeah there's a nice one called Kerkythea. It's fairly straight forward to use, and pretty powerful. There's a good few tutorials around too.
You need to download both the program package itself and then the sketchup plugin, but it's all very easy to set up. here ya go for the link:
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from 0.15 till about 1:10, jack might aswell be playing a black face cannon with sustain turned down. trufax, it sounds just like that.
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fwiw, the breadboard I use is ~€20 from farnell, but they screw you by €35 for first time delivery. It's by a brand called Wisher, so you might be able to get one from an electrical wholesaler, like Mouser, Farnell or Radionics. here's a list of them from farnell, maybe you can find them elsewhere. Bare in mind that anything made on them is like 10000000000000000 times noisier than when it's on stripboard or sommet.
http://ie.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=4275+500010+1008407
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had volume seriously low for this:
VERY interesting. Cannon, as expected, is much smoother, but keeps all the gain of the Muff. Distinctly different tonal qualities, and I couldn't really pick a favourite. One's as good as the other imo. The plan now, is to have the Cannon set up for non-JW sound (Vol @40%, Tone @ 40%, sustain @ 100%) and the Big Muff set to JW settings (Vol, Tone, Sus @ 65-70%). One pedal closer to my perfect setup i guess.
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hahaha! yeah they've the tennis ball fuzz
Two of the three guitars i have at the mo are mahogany, and about as heavy as a LP, and i find it hurts my shoulder more than my back. Anyway, it is the standard thickness (off the top of my head i think it's ~40-45mm??) and cos it's birch, it's not too heavy really. I'm not 100% sure what finish etc i want to put into it.
It's a seriously experimental guitar, but i'm really optomistic, i think it has a LOT of potential.
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hey there gemsy,
just noticed the muser awards, and i couldn't help but notice that the K&T part of the forum was fairly neglected in a big way. There's a fairly big group of us in there who have done more deserving things than half the people in the other parts of the forum. An award for something like "Guitar Build of the Year" might be nice considering that there was about 20 or 30 guitars built by K&T members, many of which (if you actually looked in K&T) are replicas of matts.
Not picking a fight here, just bringing something to a mods attention.
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hey, just saw your thread about getting attacked. Bad times! thank god they didn't get your wallet!
u can has ninja lessons for xmas?? got attacked myself recently, but i was with 2 friends. we beat seven shades of shite out of the two bastards.hope everything's back to norman. happy xmas.
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hey,
only got your message now, i've been really up to my eyes with college. Yeah, didn't see your message in knt (link?). ailbhe sounds pretty good. I keep meaning to put up a demo sound, but that's literally how busy i've been.
I've a guitar project in the works at the moment. It's a tele-ish shape, made from (i know it's risky, but go with me on this) the highest grade ply of birch available. It's something like 64 layers of ply, seriously dense stuff. it'll be heavy, but no heavier than the likes of a good LP, and will probably give a similar tone to the kind you get from dense woods like mahogany. Also, it's in 2 layers, and it'll be partly glued together. It's a cousin building the body like, and he builds skateboards professionally. I know glue in guitars can dampen the tone, but ritter basses use it, and they're seriously amazing basses.
The way he's gluing it is a good way too. not only will they be slot-fitted and glued, but he suggested also bolting them or something like that. Now, i was thinking, a chrome finish, a shit load of bolts or rivits, black or chrome hardware, and two v.high output pups and a sustainer is a recipie for one secks of a guitar...
It's just fairly delayed at the moment cos i was sending over the cad files to him. You get all sorts of disasters with scaling, and print sizes when you go from the usual european ISO standards to american standards. All that crap with inches and millimetre conversion. Hopefuly obama might introduce the metric system to you guys.
Anyway, i was talking to him yesterday, and he said he does have them scaled right and the two parts are cut etc, so he said gluing/fixing is next. Also, his friend paints guitars for a local shop that offers repaints/customisation, and he said he'd be up for doing something with it. Again, this comes back to the chrome, so i've to ring him about that again tomorrow.The whole project is WAY down my list of priorities. Right now, i've an 11 week college project to design a hotel.
fun fucking times...
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not really. Only extra costs are the price difference in the enclosure, the cost of a dpdt toggle switch and thats about it. It's the same base schematic, just with about 20 unique values of components. For example, the modern muffs use a 1uF in both the clipping loops. In mine, one has a 0.1uF and the other has a 1uF. This allows for more lower end, and makes the clipping stages a little warmer. there's countless changes like that. The input stage is more biased for mids, the clipping stages are warmer, the output cap is more for mids, there's more gain allowed pass from one stage to the next. The list goes on. In anycase, i'll leave it on the breadboard till i have the money for some enclosures. I'll probably make a few of these.
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Thought you might like this. It's no wood floor, but not too bad anyway.
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