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Author Topic: Onboard Effects: Foolish, or Merely Ill-Advised? 😉
smgear

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Post Re: Onboard Effects: Foolish, or Merely Ill-Advised? 😉
on: August 30, 2012, 12:17
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I've been toying with the notion of getting a 2 axis joystick pot from mammoth and using it in place of the pinch/wool knobs from a wooly mammoth type circuit. Imagine that mounted in the upper bout so you can hit a note or chord and then adjust both those controls at once to find the sweet spot.
Double D

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Post Re: Onboard Effects: Foolish, or Merely Ill-Advised? 😉
on: August 31, 2012, 00:56
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I don't think it's foolish or ill-advised. For any of us who control our sound largely from volume/tone/pickup selector tweaks, it makes perfect sense. I would much rather have my effected tones tweakable from my guitar if it were practical (my ES-335:no way, bro). I don't even put my pedals on the floor; they live on my amp and almost never are switched on or off during the tune (exception: wah pedal, but I never use it anyway). Pedal tweaks are much easier for me at waist height than down on the floor. And hell, if Les Paul and Danny Gatton think its a good idea, then its cool with me!
Double D

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Post Re: Onboard Effects: Foolish, or Merely Ill-Advised? 😉
on: September 20, 2012, 18:35
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Here's an interesting example of onboard effect laden guitars: the Kay and Cort Effectors were electronically identical dual humbucker axes with a huge rout housing echo, wah, tremelo, whirlwind (all variations on the same theme, and not necessarily what they're described as) and fuzz. Here's a link to an article about my brother's Kay Effector Les Paul copy: https://inspireformation.blogspot.ca/2012/09/the-kay-effector-onboard-effects-madness.html If anyone has any information about these things, it would be most appreciated, as these things are woefully under-documented and I'm getting sick of looking at Google.
bear

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Post Re: Onboard Effects: Foolish, or Merely Ill-Advised? 😉
on: September 20, 2012, 19:53
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Quote from Double D on September 20, 2012, 18:35
Here's an interesting example of onboard effect laden guitars: the Kay and Cort Effectors were electronically identical dual humbucker axes with a huge rout housing echo, wah, tremelo, whirlwind (all variations on the same theme, and not necessarily what they're described as) and fuzz. Here's a link to an article about my brother's Kay Effector Les Paul copy: https://inspireformation.blogspot.ca/2012/09/the-kay-effector-onboard-effects-madness.html If anyone has any information about these things, it would be most appreciated, as these things are woefully under-documented and I'm getting sick of looking at Google.

ZOMG! That was my first electric and it was a total piece of junk. Weighed like cement but was built crappy enough not to get good sustain for it. Not a carved top but bent plywood with a gap between it and the heavy as hell slab. Electronics died in short order of buying it used. Never knew it was a Kay -- makes me think much less of the brand.

Oh, and the humbuckers aren't built like anyone else's -- not at all the standard bobbin structure. Some idiot who owned it before me pulled a coil off of each one. Replacement pickups didn't save it.
Double D

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Post Re: Onboard Effects: Foolish, or Merely Ill-Advised? 😉
on: September 20, 2012, 23:33
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Hey bear. It's not really a Kay in the classic "built in Chicago" sense. The name was tossed around for a few years, but the Kay company that built all those great upright basses and Barney Kessel's and such had been gone a long time by the time these guys showed up in the Sears catalogue. Apparently they were branded as Univox elsewhere, but they were jobbed out of Korea. Perhaps this was the humble beginning of Cort?
Anywho, this one has had Washburn humbuckers installed (with unbelievably Mickey-Mouse wiring) and actually doesn't weigh all that much. It does have the bent plywood top, and the routing is a wonder to behold in its sloppiness, but I actually find it a lot of fun to play. But then again, I've always loved unfussy, junky guitars of all stripes (and glitter, and multiple switches and dodgy vibrato schemes,etc.).
Double D

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Post Re: Onboard Effects: Foolish, or Merely Ill-Advised? 😉
on: November 11, 2012, 03:27
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I finally got a post up with a video/demo of the Kay/Audiovox Effector; I've only been promising this for months now...you can check it out at https://inspireformation.blogspot.ca/2012/11/the-kay-effector-pt2.html .
Oinkus

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Post Re: Onboard Effects: Foolish, or Merely Ill-Advised? 😉
on: November 11, 2012, 05:56
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That's just wild and crazy man ! Very cool ! We like it alot. Has that everything is kind of off sound , you know there is something weird going on there just by listening to it.
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