Selector Switch!
Posted: 3 Jun 2002 7:24 pm
I recently got my 75' D-10 P/P back from Mike Cass after having a full restoration job
(It's GREAT! -photo's to follow in another post)and sat down to try the P/P through a very clean Peavey Bandit 112 I just got here on the forum. (thanks again Byron, it's great). I used the Bandit yesterday at a street fair with a nice PA playing my Sierra S-12 and it was great so I couldn't wait to try it the Emmons here at home tonight.
I had been leaving the bandit at the rehersal studio until after the street fair yesterday.
I hooked up my vol pedal and plugged in the Emmons and fired up the Bandit. I was picking on the open E9th neck with no picks on and even with the vol pedal wide open, the sound was very faint, but great tone!
I checked the channel switch to make sure it was on the clean channel. I keep the volume off on the 2nd channel and maybe it got pushed? Nope. Checked chords. Nope.
Still getting faint sound, with great tone!
Then, there it was!!! The "neck-selector" switch !!!!! It's a D-10 you dope!!! It's got necks and a switch!! Playing S-12 E9/B6 for the last few years had cleaned any thoughts of a neck selector switch from my memory banks! I had been playing C6th the night before and had not switched it back to the E9th neck when I plugged it into the Bandit. Then I realized that even with the switch set on the back neck when I was picking on the front neck, the vibrations were somehow getting to the active pick-up on the C6th neck and to the amp.
Once I "selected" the E9th neck, things were just fine.
Can the signal from the pick-up's bleed through the switch? or is this just part of the P/P's great tone?
JE:-)>
(It's GREAT! -photo's to follow in another post)and sat down to try the P/P through a very clean Peavey Bandit 112 I just got here on the forum. (thanks again Byron, it's great). I used the Bandit yesterday at a street fair with a nice PA playing my Sierra S-12 and it was great so I couldn't wait to try it the Emmons here at home tonight.
I had been leaving the bandit at the rehersal studio until after the street fair yesterday.
I hooked up my vol pedal and plugged in the Emmons and fired up the Bandit. I was picking on the open E9th neck with no picks on and even with the vol pedal wide open, the sound was very faint, but great tone!
I checked the channel switch to make sure it was on the clean channel. I keep the volume off on the 2nd channel and maybe it got pushed? Nope. Checked chords. Nope.
Still getting faint sound, with great tone!
Then, there it was!!! The "neck-selector" switch !!!!! It's a D-10 you dope!!! It's got necks and a switch!! Playing S-12 E9/B6 for the last few years had cleaned any thoughts of a neck selector switch from my memory banks! I had been playing C6th the night before and had not switched it back to the E9th neck when I plugged it into the Bandit. Then I realized that even with the switch set on the back neck when I was picking on the front neck, the vibrations were somehow getting to the active pick-up on the C6th neck and to the amp.
Once I "selected" the E9th neck, things were just fine.
Can the signal from the pick-up's bleed through the switch? or is this just part of the P/P's great tone?
JE:-)>
