dumb and dumber question...

[candid_x]

Ok, this'll probably sound nuts but here goes..

A couple of times I've accidentally stepped on the guitar cable and pulled the jack half out... and really dug the sound! (Yes, I know to wrap the cable around the strap/button but sometimes I get lazy) Aside from a little hum, and knowing it's not supposed to be played like that, it got a really nice compressed edge to the tone, vintage straty kinda thing.

Two questions:
Do I need to see a shrink?
And, is there a safe and proper way to do this with the jack fully in, i.e. wiring?

 

[JohnnyD19]

Two questions:
Do I need to see a shrink?
And, is there a safe and proper way to do this with the jack fully in, i.e. wiring?

1. of course.... most of us on here probably do but we wont admit it
2. i don't know the answer to that one

 

[candid_x]

i don't know the answer to that one

Maybe the shrink knows.

Or, maybe it's a phase thingy. There's something similar with the switch caught between pos. 1 and 2, but with the jack half out it had that same type of effect across all positions. Tonight I didn't know what happened, and I was so into the tone that I just kept playing and playing, SRV type stuff. Wasn't till I stopped that I dared to find out what was wrong that made it right. At first I thought I was losing a premap tube or cap or something. Then it was "ah hah, it's the jack, fool!"

 

[Astrofreq]

I find I sound the best when my cable is all the way out.

 

[Junior Luke]

wireless......

Ok, this'll probably sound nuts but here goes..

A couple of times I've accidentally stepped on the guitar cable and pulled the jack half out... and really dug the sound! (Yes, I know to wrap the cable around the strap/button but sometimes I get lazy) Aside from a little hum, and knowing it's not supposed to be played like that, it got a really nice compressed edge to the tone, vintage straty kinda thing.

Two questions:
Do I need to see a shrink?
And, is there a safe and proper way to do this with the jack fully in, i.e. wiring?

Have you tried the wireless system, that will probably work for you man

P.

 

[candid_x]

I find I sound the best when my cable is all the way out.

lol!

 

[candid_x]

Have you tried the wireless system, that will probably work for you man

P.

Never did. But how would that duplicate a half-assed connection?

 

[ba2m]

Hi Bruce,
maybe you can play around with the wiring inside the output jack on the body .. but i don't know

because, now i have trouble with the wiring inside the output jack in my guitar body, so sometimes the sound keeps changing if i move the cable..

good luck Bruce,
abraham


ow, one more thing, i think all of us in this forum need to go to a shrink since we can't get our balls out of our mind ..

 

[candid_x]

ow, one more thing, i think all of us in this forum need to go to a shrink since we can't get our balls out of our mind ..

Or our hands.

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

Its probably because the earth is not properly connected. Not my idea of a great sound!

 

[candid_x]

Tim, yes, I suspect you're right. No, not my ideal sound either, but it is another sound, and I guess because of my settings, it's got it's own cool vibe, especially on the single coils.

 

[TNT]

Sure it was an accident??? I kinda think you planned it that way. That way you're in the same group as the "other" great inventors of our time. Yeah, I really think you planned this all in advance.

What other "accidental" things have you done with your guitar/cable, etc. . . ?????

 

[candid_x]

Are we allowed to talk about that kinky stuff here?

 

[TNT]

Only if the "kink" you mention is in the cable!!! Rock on!

 

[Paul in WV]

I find I sound the best when my cable is all the way out.

Ok...you beat me to it.

 

[SteveB]

Bruce,

You could just let me have at the output jack with a soldering iron. A few cold solder joints might replicate the situation!

 

[candid_x]

Bruce,

You could just let me have at the output jack with a soldering iron. A few cold solder joints might replicate the situation!

Yes! And while you're at it, maybe you can dremel gouges into the neck, make it all relic looking and sh*t.