Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2014 0:41:07 GMT
I paid a spectacular £99 for a several times reduced Lag electro-classical guitar a few weeks back, Lag-made but with Rathbone on the headstock. I'd been about to go home after a guitar hunt and just thought I'd treat myself modestly and penciled in the idea that it'd be a good open mic guitar. I took the Nubone-ish saddle out to put a lower bone one in and when I tried it out electrically the pickup had failed, just made a load of buzzy electrical sounds. It must have been fragile and kicked the bucket with the tiniest bit of fiddling as I changed saddles as I've done similar jobs before without consequences.
I bought a couple of under saddle pickups online as I wouldn't be near the shop again soon and I thought it'd be simple to get things going again. Neither of the pickups work in this guitar. I'm getting no sound at all. I've ascertained in another electro that they're neither of them faulty. I've also plugged an mp3 player into the Rathbone's preamp and ascertained that the preamp works. That's right, an mp3 player's sound being fed through the guitar's jack... One of the USts I got has a thin clear rubber coating, which seems ill-advised, but it clearly works after a fashion in my other electro-classical. The sound it gives that guitar is not pleasing though, and it seems to make the whole guitar body amplified, and boosts the noise of fingers on strings. Yet plugged into the Rathbone/ Lag - absolute silence.
It's like the new pickups are somehow mismatched with the preamp, and I'm not clued-up on why this might be. One of the pickups I bought was not quite wide enough too, though I could have otherwise made it stretch if I drilled a new hole in the saddle slot. Is there some terminology and technical stuff I need to know to get the right replacement. I still like this guitar, it'll do what I first thought it could without me worrying it'd get nicked when I'm in the pub loo, though it does look quite a bit nicer than you'd expect, with wooden binding and great fit and finish. I thought during the brief time when it worked electrically that it'd record well too.
i will email the shop to see if there's any joy there but if they can be bothered to reply at all I'm also thinking the age of this guitar that'd sat in the shop or warehouse some time means it might need another preamp and UST to get it working again, technology having moved on and spares having dried up. The preamp is a small one by Shadow with those little coin-like batteries in. (I did try a fresh pair to no avail by the way.) I can't fathom how I'd cut more wood out of the sides to fit a replacement preamp without gear that a specialist would have and would have mastered, and of course the chances of selling an electro-acoustic with a dead pickup are slim.
I also have a cap-like pickup from a dead, long gone guitar, the type you attach to the bridge-plate. It formerly was connected to a guitar's end jack through a phono/RCA connector, so I bought an RCA to 2.5mm adapter and tried that with the pre-amp - still no sound. It's all almost like an out-take from the story of Job, his guitar-playing years...
What am I looking for? Is there a certain output, or whatever, of pickup that I need to work with this preamp. Presumably several people here have been using these things for years and would know where I'm being naive.
One temptation is to go and have a repairer carve the preamp hole into a sound port with a wee binding to match the top's and sides', or find a way to mount a fortuitously-sized digital tuner there, but they're wacky last resorts.
Cheers in advance. Sorry this is too long again - I'm not really cut out for the internet am I.
I bought a couple of under saddle pickups online as I wouldn't be near the shop again soon and I thought it'd be simple to get things going again. Neither of the pickups work in this guitar. I'm getting no sound at all. I've ascertained in another electro that they're neither of them faulty. I've also plugged an mp3 player into the Rathbone's preamp and ascertained that the preamp works. That's right, an mp3 player's sound being fed through the guitar's jack... One of the USts I got has a thin clear rubber coating, which seems ill-advised, but it clearly works after a fashion in my other electro-classical. The sound it gives that guitar is not pleasing though, and it seems to make the whole guitar body amplified, and boosts the noise of fingers on strings. Yet plugged into the Rathbone/ Lag - absolute silence.
It's like the new pickups are somehow mismatched with the preamp, and I'm not clued-up on why this might be. One of the pickups I bought was not quite wide enough too, though I could have otherwise made it stretch if I drilled a new hole in the saddle slot. Is there some terminology and technical stuff I need to know to get the right replacement. I still like this guitar, it'll do what I first thought it could without me worrying it'd get nicked when I'm in the pub loo, though it does look quite a bit nicer than you'd expect, with wooden binding and great fit and finish. I thought during the brief time when it worked electrically that it'd record well too.
i will email the shop to see if there's any joy there but if they can be bothered to reply at all I'm also thinking the age of this guitar that'd sat in the shop or warehouse some time means it might need another preamp and UST to get it working again, technology having moved on and spares having dried up. The preamp is a small one by Shadow with those little coin-like batteries in. (I did try a fresh pair to no avail by the way.) I can't fathom how I'd cut more wood out of the sides to fit a replacement preamp without gear that a specialist would have and would have mastered, and of course the chances of selling an electro-acoustic with a dead pickup are slim.
I also have a cap-like pickup from a dead, long gone guitar, the type you attach to the bridge-plate. It formerly was connected to a guitar's end jack through a phono/RCA connector, so I bought an RCA to 2.5mm adapter and tried that with the pre-amp - still no sound. It's all almost like an out-take from the story of Job, his guitar-playing years...
What am I looking for? Is there a certain output, or whatever, of pickup that I need to work with this preamp. Presumably several people here have been using these things for years and would know where I'm being naive.
One temptation is to go and have a repairer carve the preamp hole into a sound port with a wee binding to match the top's and sides', or find a way to mount a fortuitously-sized digital tuner there, but they're wacky last resorts.
Cheers in advance. Sorry this is too long again - I'm not really cut out for the internet am I.