Direct me to some good onboard circuits, please!

[smashinator]

Hi everybody!

Just for giggles I took the cover off the back of my B.C. Rich (N.J. series) Mockingbird last night.  There is enough room to cram my Buick in there, I think.

So I'm thinking I GOTTA add some more to it than the 3 mini-pots and 3 mini-switches (2 pickup selectors, one phase switch) that are in there.  

Does anyone know what circuitry was in the bich that gave it it's awesome tone-shaping powers (you know, those switches no one ever used because they just bought it because it looked cool...)?

What would be useful as onboard circuitry?  Any suggestions?  What do other people like?

I'm planning to completely tear apart this guitar and restore and "improve" it.  Right now it is in sorry shape.

[waldo041]

you could try this. i use one in my guitar:

http://www.geocities.com/waldo041/unigainbuf.pdf

or

http://thehydrophonics.tripod.com/unigainbuf.pdf

peace, waldo

[DDD]

Low-power onboard preamps:
http://valueguitar.by.ru/projects/pr0011/index.htm

[smashinator]

Cool!

Say, if anyone is interested, here's a link to info on what all those switches do on the bc richs.

http://www.bcrich.com/services/active_electronics.asp

I'm having SO many twisted ideas...

[DDD]

Hi men:
As far as I understood from the B.C.Rich guitars schematics, the rotary switch for tone variations changes different capacitors in parallel with pickups. It seems to be true.
So, are there any info available on the Net on the following questions:
- what central resonant frequencies seem to be useful in such a case?
- or what capacitors does the above mentioned switch  changes?
- and what about inductance of the B.C.Rich pickups?  

Any information is highly appreciated.

[sir_modulus]

A couple of things I'd do:

3 band EQ (active....look at how the baxendall EQ is made active, and replace the EQ with one from a tube amp   )

LPB 1 or similar booster...good for a little kick!

Muff Fuzz: Good for a real nice fuzztone. Add a DPDT push-push (ya, you just push it down and up instead of pulling the pot up and down) pot, and you have a True Bypassed Fuzz in your guitar!

Phase 90: Dare you have enough space, and if you dare venture it, you could try fitting one in, and one of em battery drawers to allow easy battery replacement!

Cheers,

Nish

[smashinator]

yeah, I'll have to look up some active E.Q. circuits...

I don't know what the caps are on that rotary switch, but I bet a good start would be looking at runoffgroove.com's matchbox e.q., or one of the old Orange amps.

I'm thinking a phaser is the kind of effect I'd want on the floor, good suggestion though.

One thing I'd like to do is put in 2 different boosters, kind of like the bich.  I'm thinking 2 boosters with different sounds, in series so one can overdrive the other.  That'd be nifty.

It's kind of tricky figuring out what exactly I'd actually USE.