Things I use with the Pink Tones, my Pink Floyd cover band
Schematic guitar geek style
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Highly modified by me, Kinman pickups, black pickguard, Wilkinson VS100 bridge, staggered locking tuners, strap locks, graph saddles and nut... foto1 foto2 foto3 foto4 |
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Used as spare guitar, sounds, feels and sustains surprisingly good for being a Mexico strato.Never needed live so far (fingers crossed!). foto1 foto2 |
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Used for its spectacular look for Syd Barret songs and "Run Like Hell". foto1 foto2 |
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Not the best sound, not the worst either. Plans to be substituted by a Variax Acoustic 700. foto1 foto2 |
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Home made HIWATT, after the early seventies HIWATT schematics. Used as right channel amp. Star grounding and channels internally linked. foto1 foto2 foto3 |
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Original '75 DR103. Used as left channel amp. Modified linking channels internally (the photo was taken before the mod). foto1 foto2 foto3 foto4 foto5 foto6 foto7 |
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Home made, inside there are Weber Thames (exact copies of 70's Fane speakers) foto1 foto2 foto3 foto4 foto5 foto6 foto7 |
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Home made, in process. Cabinet is special David Gilmour dimensions. foto1 foto2 foto3 |
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Home made, with all effects neeeded for all Pink Floyd eras. Effects inside: - Fuzz Face (silicon) (home made): Before the buffer, cause this circuit needs to "see" the guitar impedance. With a switch to choose different Fuzz Face "flavours" (more lows, like on "Echoes", or more trebly like on "Money") - Fuzz Face (germanium) (home made): Before the buffer, switcheable with the silicon Fuzz Face. Used for early and "Wish You Were Here" stuff. - Buffer (home made): Not only buffers the signal so long cables don't affect your sound, but takes 4 independent and identical outputs from the guitar input. One goes to the tuner, other one goes to the pedal chain, other goes to an aux output for the connection to the talk box and another one is unused for now. - KORG tuner: Not in the signal path, so it doesn't affect the tone. Fed by one of the outputs of the buffer. - MXR Dynacomp (home made): Compressor. - Tube Driver #1 (home made): Overdrive. - Big Muff (home made): With an extra pot to shape the mids, very needed in Gilmour's tone (he gets it playing with different Muffs and inverted "V" shape EQs after them). - Tube Driver #2 (home made): Overdrive. - MXR-Phase 90 (home made): Made to the 70's Phase 90 specs. - Uni-Vibe (home made): An internal trimmer sets the offset so you don't have to use the original lamp, but any lamp and then adjusting the trimmer. - Electric Mistress (non-deluxe) (home made): Tried a deluxe one, didn't like it at all, then built a 9V non-deluxe, very good sounding, and finally built this one (18V version). Perfect sound. - BOSS CE-2 (home made): With internal trimmers setting the speed and deep of effect, no external pots. - BOSS GE-7: BOSS eq, modified by me to make it more hi-fi and silent. - Delay (home made): The jewel of the crown, built to sound like a vintage delay, loosing highs on each repeat. Also, pretty important for live concerts, a rotatory 12 positions switch to set 11 "preset" speeds. The 12th position corresponds to the external Speed knob. All effects have their own ON/OFF foot switch (including Send/Return #1 and Send/Return #2), except the Phase 90 - Univibe (you choose with a toggle switch, and then you ON/OFF with the foot switch), same with the Electric Mistress and the BOSS CE-2, and same with both Fuzz Faces. All LEDs are high luminiscence ones, and the ones that iluminate the panels have a knob in the rear side to adjust the luminosity. In the rear panel: - Input: With a swith to activate-deactivate the buffer, so, if needed, it can be totally true-bypass. - Send/return #1: Used for the wah-wah. Placed in the pedal chain between the Dynacomp and the Tube Driver #1. It has a switch to reverse it (for Echoes). - Send/return #2: Used for the volume pedal. Placed in the pedal chain between the BOSS GE-7 and the Delay. - Output: Main output. From here it goes to the Dynacord Leslie emulator, and through stereo outputs to the Tonecore roto-machine and then it ffeds both HIWATTs. - Aux output: Taken from one of the buffer outputs, it feeds the talk-box. - Two auxiliary 9V outputs: for powering other external pedals if needed. Everything perfectly shielded, minimum signal path inside, independient power for LEDs and separated paths for AC lines. Absolutely silent. foto1 foto2 foto3 foto4 foto5 foto6 |
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The legendary VOX wah. foto1 foto2 |
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Typical and useful Ernie Ball volume pedal foto1 foto2 |
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The original one, but modified by me. Not used for this Pink Floyd project yet, cause we don't play the songs where this is needed. foto1 foto2 foto3 (interior) foto4 (interior) |
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Leslie emulator. The center position nails the Dark Side Of The Moon leslie tones, even the leslie overdrive. Stereo output, with which I feed my two HIWATTs. foto1 foto2 |
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Another Leslie emulator, estereo. Rack mounted and doesn't have overdrive. Great sound. Used for the Animals and Wall tones. For the Wall, used together with the Mistress. foto1 foto2 |
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Effect rack, used because of its great sounding vocoder, for "Sheep". foto1 foto2 |
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Talk box with a little amplifier and speaker integrated. Very good sound. foto1 foto2 |
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I built a circuit that takes the output of both the pitch and the volume antenna and transform the signal to voltage, and then I connect that to my keyboardist Minimoog. So theremin usability with Minimoog sounds. Used for "Welcome To The Machine". foto1 foto2 |
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Still in process, but totally usable. Used for recording a lot of samples then used live. foto1 foto2 foto3 |
