Re:
DIY Stick
Preamp Prototype Project - Part 1
evilgus wrote:
Looks like I'll need to get cracking on my custom pre-amp after all, I've been trying out an Alesis mixer, but it really truncates the high-end of the Stick and makes it sound muddy and dull! Might still use the mixer for effects routing and volume balancing, but I'll plug into the custom pre first, so the impedances are right.
Anyone else been working on theirs since before?
EG
I use mine with a small Alesis mixer. Going direct into most mixers really sounds bad. They are usually not designed for instruments. However, with the
preamp it sounds great. And, I'm finally not the only one to have heard it. I took it to the Midwest Stick seminar and several people tried it with their smaller amps. Those who tried it seemed to really like it and one is already asking me, (with great energy!) to make one for them.
Once my school year started I stopped having any free time to work on this project. I have the parts for the next version and I hope to get it made over my winter break. But, if my new bamboo grand comes before the break then I make no promises!
Again, my goal is to make plans, parts lists, and a detailed tutorial with videos so that people a bit handy with a soldering iron will be able to make this themselves. We're making progress, I'm just too busy to work on it this fall. I'm teaching full time and writing a new course, which is same amount of work as writing a significant book. It's amazing that I have time to play music and sleep, and sometimes I don't.
-Eric
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