Santa
First Lieutenant   Posts: 1 Registered: 1/5/2005 Status: Offline
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posted on 1/5/2005 at 18:36 |
First of all, I know nothing about guitars. However I did build a
distortion stomp box for my nephew, who plays a 1974 Gibson Marauder with
2 double coil humbucking pickups side by side near the neck, and one single
coil pickup by the bridge.
The distortion box worked fine with a line level signal going in, and the
output to a 'scope. But there is no sound when the guitar is connected to
the box, and then to an amp. (it's fine on bypass, though)
I haven't had a chance to look at the box yet, but I am wondering:
Does the output from the guitar need to be pre-amplified before it goes
into the stompbox? What is the voltage level output of the humbucking coil
pickup?
Thanks,
Santa
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brian
Moderator   Posts: 1075 Registered: 12/22/2003 Status: Offline |
posted on 1/5/2005 at 19:36, Reply 1 |
This has nothing to do with it. You might a have a cold solder joint in the
circuit somewhere. When you plug it in it should work fine. When the
batterys dead it does the same thing.
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brian
Moderator Posts: 1075 Registered: 12/22/2003 Status: Offline |
posted on 1/10/2005 at 00:35, Reply 2 |
I believe Gibson humbuckers have an output of around 9k-14k ohms. Some may
be less and others more.
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