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Tuesday, 24 November 2015 15:14

Sine Effect Electronics MegaPara Demo and Review

Written by Helmut Watterott

Sine Effect Electronics MegaPara Multiband EQ guitar pedal

Please check our full demo and review of the Sine Effect Electronics MegaPara multiband parametric equaliser pedal. More knobs than in parliament and more tone shaping than a ring in a champagne glass.

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Wednesday, 18 November 2015 14:30

Disphoria Distortion Pedal by Sine Effect Electronics

Written by Helmut Watterott

Diasphoria Distortion Pedal demo and Review

The Disphoria is a distortion pedal made by Sine Effect Electronics. It is a very open and transparent distortion pedal with a huge amount of gain.

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Monday, 09 November 2015 10:50

Guitar Rebuild part 12 - Finished Guitar Sound Sample

Written by Helmut Watterott

Please have a look at the video to hear the guitar in action. The clean pieces are played on the neck pickup and so are the rythm crunch tones. The lead is played on the bridge on a high gain setting with some reverb.

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Thursday, 05 November 2015 20:45

Guitar rebuild part 11 - Overview of the finished guitar

Written by Helmut Watterott

The final product ready for inspection. This guitar is looking great.

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Thursday, 05 November 2015 20:39

Guitar rebuild part 10 - Cleaning all the guitar hardware before installing

Written by Helmut Watterott

A quick video to show the cleaning of the hardware. Please check the cleaning fluids here on small pieces of your hardware before you follow these instructions.

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Thursday, 22 October 2015 15:03

Full guitar setup tutorial - Fret Levelling tutorial and Intonation tutorial

Written by Helmut Watterott

See the full 3 part video tutorial on how to setup your guitar from scratch. Please have a look at our tutorial which takes you through the complete guitar setup process. It explains in details how to level your frets, set the truss rod, restring your guitar and set the intonation.

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Monday, 05 October 2015 20:24

Guitar Rebuild Part 09 - Getting the body ready for spray paint

Written by Helmut Watterott

Preparing guitar body for spray painting

The dents, bumps, holes and scrathces in body of the guitar have been dealt with in the previous section. Now the fillers need to be sanded down and the suface needs to be prepared to accept the spray paint.

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Thursday, 01 October 2015 09:10

Guitar Rebuild 07 - Why finish the scratch plate / pickguard before the body

Written by Helmut Watterott

The scratch plate and pickguard, as well as loading the electronics was done before the body so that we can measure exactly how big the body cavity needs to be to accommodate the humbucker pickups and wiring.

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Thursday, 01 October 2015 09:23

Guitar Rebuild Part 08 - Fixing dents and scratches on a guitar body before spraying

Written by Helmut Watterott

Fixing scratches, dents an plugging holes

A quick video to show how to fix dents and scratches and fill in holes on a guitar body

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Friday, 25 September 2015 10:48

Guitar Rebuild Part 06 - Guitar wiring and electronics, scratchplate/pickguard and killswitch

Written by Helmut Watterott

A look at the guitar electronics and pickup wiring, the scratchplate/pickguard and the installed killswitch.

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Wednesday, 23 September 2015 13:13

Pyle Pro PDC22 DI Direct Injection box demo and review

Written by Helmut Watterott

The Pyle Pro PDC22 is an unpowered Dual Direct DI box. It converts unbalanced signals to balanced signals andbalanced to unbalanced. It also features a parallel out in order to loop a signal back. The DI also has a -0dB, -20dB and -40dB which allows you to connect higher powered connection to it to send via balanced out like amp speaker outs etc. It also features a ground lift. It is of full metal construction and in my tests noiseless. It does exactly what it is requested to do.

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Wednesday, 09 September 2015 13:13

Guitar rebuild Part 05 - Adding a waterslide decal to the guitar headstock

Written by Helmut Watterott

What we tried to achieve here was a very clean matt headstock. Black decal on white. We wanted the logo to be applied in a way that you can't see how it was applied.

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Friday, 17 July 2015 21:01

Support the O'Keefe Music Foundation Kickstarter

Written by Helmut Watterott

This seems more than a worthy KickStarter to support. The O'Keefe Music Foundation that brought us 46 and 2 cover by Tool want to keep going.

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Sunday, 28 June 2015 12:52

Guitar rebuild Part 04 - Fret Leveling and using a Fret Rocker

Written by Helmut Watterott

In this video we use the fret rocker to check for frets that might be hight or low and adjust them with a file. we also ase a fret board protector to prevent any damage to the fret board near the frets we are working on.