On Mon, April 15, 2013 12:27 am, Jeremy Jongepier wrote: >> Though making an enclosure and buying the switches (that can handle >> being >> stomped) would probably cost as much as a premade controller anyway. Are >> you going to add any other controls? (pots or other programing kinds of >> things) or just use presets? > > I bought some cheap switches and I've got some broken things lying > around and my ultimate goal would be to make a simple USB-MIDI > footswitch with some extra knobs to adjust parameters. But that will be > a long term project (two kids, solderingironophobia). I thought the R-Pi has GPi/os. Is it not possible to use switches connected direct? >> Is that a Dan Armstrong? Or does someone else make clear (and very >> heavy) >> body guitars? >> > Answered this in another mail. Ya, Last D.A. I saw was about 1974. It was a bass, but was short scale so the intonation was problematic. It was heavy. The owner went from that to a Rick. > In addition, there are some manufacturers > that use PMMA/acrylic/lucite/perspex bodies. The most well-known at the > moment is ECG (Electrical Guitar Company). They have two lucite > signature models with aluminum necks (how awesome is that), the Brent > Hinds (Mastodon) Custom and one of the coolest contemporary guitars, the > King Buzzo (Melvins) Standard: > http://www.electricalguitarcompany.com/index.php/model/King-Buzzo-Standard/fuseaction/models.77d7eb47.htm They look nice. How easy is it to keep them clean? Or are finger marks not visible more than 5 feet away anyway? Says 9 pounds... I haven't weighed any of mine...Hohner (the jack) headless - 7lbs - Rickenbacker bass - 10 lbs - squire katana bass (ex rental now fretless) 7.3 lbs So weight is not an issue. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
