very cool hack.
about the epilepsy thing – that just makes me mad. bunch of sk’s just learned how to inject javsacript and think they can be leet. extremely immature. what i want to know is, why do they think (assume?) it was anonymous?

This is a really neat hack, but is there any point in instaling the amp in the cable itself if you need a box on the end to power it anyway?

And I know I’m a horrible person, but when I read that epilepsy thing, I burst out laughing. What I don’t like about it is that the internet’s population now seems to blame everything bad on “Anonymous”, because they can. It’s just like religeon; they have no proof at all that this is true, but they’ll say it anyway.

thats just horrible and if it was {Anonymous}he’ll get whats coming 2 him he’s a good hacker but there’s always some 1 better and a lot of hackers out there have family
with epilepsy so i can see a major rebute for this. well im off 2 make fun of tom cruise it never gets old

I like the idea of embedding the preamp in the cable, but you need a phantom power capable mixing desk or a phantom power injector.

I would think it might be better to simply build a decent pre-amp into a project box and spray paint the innards with nickel or something to shield it. You would probably end up with a better preamp in the end, and you don’t have to worry about phantom power.

If you were to plan at a location with poor sound equipment and they are not equipped to provide phantom power, you are going to be in a pinch

If hackaday is independent, why couldn’t you link to the wired article? Why link to engadget?

Chris –
The point is to lower the impedance as close to the pickups as possible so that the cable doesn’t have a chance to load down the pickups (which cause reduced treble and bass). This is especially important for piezo pickups (which need a MUCH higher input impedance).

I’ve built one of these, but I never thought of submitting it to hackaday.

Wouldn’t leeching power from the audio line distort the signal ?

As for this epilepsy thing, hurting people for fun seems to be a growing and worrying trend in our society. I really hope the culprits get caught.

Sweet hack, even though I don’t play the guitar.

Personally, I think the assholes who attacked the epilepsy forum weren’t actual Anonymous at all. I’m sure we all know about how Anon is attacking the Church of Scientology, and a number probably know about CoS’s “Fair Game” policy (if you don’t, Wiki it, it’s scary shit), and I’m pretty certain that everyone that reads this site can put two and two together… After all, who could possibly be easier to impersonate than Anonymous?

IIRC the epilepsy forum either allowed raw HTML or javascript. Saw the damage from a thread on 7chan myself.

“hacker” is hardly an adequate description for those that participated, not that I support their actions.

Granted, it was not a really nice thing to do.. But honestly, my
question is, what kinda retard would sit there and watch the
“flashing images” long enough to cause any type of reaction knowing
that they had this disorder.. Unless of course they had some kind of
java scrip that not only caused flashing images, but also a total
paralysis of viewer preventing them from manually moving their mouse
to click the X in the upper right corner.. Then.. yes.. By all mean..
DAMN THEN TO HELL!

Oh man. I’m one of the CoS protesters, and I really don’t understand how people could be blaming us for this thing. Anyone can be Anonymous, you need to take a look at the *chans these griefers operate on. Like Jack says, the whole CoS raid is actually looked down on by lot of the *chans. Scientology looks down on its members taking medication to stop them from getting seizures, for example, Tory “Magoo” Christman – http://www.entheta.net/archive/personal_story/tory/affidavit.html

Jocelyn Dorfmann died from an epileptic seizure in Scientology care in France – http://www.whyaretheydead.net/others/Jocelyne_Dorfmann_34.html

Heribert Pfaff died from an epileptic seizure in a Scientology hotel in Clearwater – http://www.whyaretheydead.net/room758.html

James Stewart committed suicide after CoS put in him in a Condition of Doubt for having epileptic seizures in public – http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/kult-epelep.htm

this is the same idea used in the Blue Ball mic (fixing impedence issues with an integrated amplifier through phantom power)