Music Rooms & Playing Areas - Show Yours!

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I have six knobs on both my twelves and they're both wired similarly. When I first added a middle pickup to my 360/12 and tried wiring it with various combinations, I really didn't think it was adding much to the sound. What I ended up doing was wiring it all by itself to the second jack with no tone pot, no cap and just a volume pot (the sixth knob). If I have any complaint with my old, original Janglebox it's that when I get it cranked up to yield the edge I want, the sound tended to be a bit light on low end. The non-jangled middle pickup allows me to blend in some low end. I run a double Y-cord (or two singles at the same time) on the guitar when using the stereo mode. I've been doing that on my old fretless Gibson bass since 1972, as it has a P-Bass pickup hidden under the hand rest to add some punch to the stock mudbucker. If I'm only using one cord, I can plug it into the regular jack and get the standard factory neck/bridge/fifth knob 360 configuration. The 340/12 is wired the same, except it has a stereo output jack instead of two jacks. Plug in a mono cord and you get stock 330 wiring. Plug in a stereo jack attached to a Y-cord and you have the normal wiring, plus another signal from the middle pickup that you can send elsewhere and do something else with.

I think it gives me more versatility. This tune has two twelve-string tracks. The first guitar you hear (which runs all the way through) is the 360/370/12 using the neck pickup and just a little bit of the middle added and I'm tapping on the strings with the side of my thumb and the top of my index fingertip. The "spaghetti western" six string stuff that comes in later is a Yamaha Silent Guitar and near the end, the 370/12 comes in with more typical Rickenbacker neck/bridge J-box tone, flat-picked. The bass is a Hofner and the harmony is generated with a TC Helicon Harmony G.

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The diorama is connected to this stuff, which runs around the top of the built-in shelves in my office. When I get bored in the winter and want some easy cash, I take apart tiny locomotives, repaint them, reassemble and weather them. It's kind of like relic-ing a Fender guitar, only smaller and you don't use a hammer. Then I sell them on e-Bay to folks who want more realistic looking engines.
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"43 B" -- Our Band's HQ!

And our manager Fred -- who helps hold the vibration . . . and reminds us to "Keep Off The Grass". 8)

Quality ALWAYS Flies. :mrgreen:
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Is that a Rickenbacker frisbee. :lol:
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And this is "The Incubator" (a/k/a "The Egg") -- where we cook up the songs before bringing them to HQ.

NO DRUMMERS ALLOWED! :twisted:
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teb wrote:The diorama is connected to this stuff, which runs around the top of the built-in shelves in my office. When I get bored in the winter and want some easy cash, I take apart tiny locomotives, repaint them, reassemble and weather them. It's kind of like relic-ing a Fender guitar, only smaller and you don't use a hammer. Then I sell them on e-Bay to folks who want more realistic looking engines.
Thanks for the info on the guitar's mysterious 6th knob! I bet you have lots of patience fumbling with little trains like that! I once tried H0 trains and it all derailed as much as I did derail this thread :lol:
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The smallest room in the house i need to tidy up.
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The Moog has gone (as has the CZ5000) but I promise I'll get another some day...
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I forgot this one...
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weemac wrote:I forgot this one...
Nice Schtuff Eden! :)

Dot Boards Rule!! 8)
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My nephew now owns the S5...

Eden.
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Dot necks do rule! Love the dark fingerboard on that middle one.
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BUMP! :)

6 Months later.
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I'm getting closer on mine! The drywall is up,primed and i'm considering paint colors...really like that deep red,i'm thinking about a deep aubergine possibly...or possibly not, :lol: ...after it's painted,got to put down laminate flooring over the concrete slab...it's going to be a "live " room,i bet....hoping this is done by October....
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