damn work computer for having a broken sound card. i LOOKS sweet. gotta wait til i get home to hear it though

Posted at 10:44 am on Sep 3rd, 2009 by McSquid

Dang, and it actually looks practical, too.

Posted at 10:50 am on Sep 3rd, 2009 by fenwick

great hack, take something laying around and make good use of it. :)

Posted at 10:56 am on Sep 3rd, 2009 by Jeff

Wow 3 comments in a row with no complaints? This must be a really great hack. ;)

I really like the idea. I have a digitech guitar processor which does the same thing, but you have to use a pedal. Maybe this works better.

Posted at 11:02 am on Sep 3rd, 2009 by knetcomp

Actually it reminds me to the effect that Rage uses in some solos, like here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrHczTK3JWo#t=2m15s

Posted at 11:23 am on Sep 3rd, 2009 by Rockarolla

What? No Arduino? BOOO!

Sorry, couldn’t continue the string of praise for too long. Looks and sounds like a sweet hack though.

Posted at 11:25 am on Sep 3rd, 2009 by Andrew

Sweet, I have always have just used my pickup selector switch for that, but that is kinda useful…

Posted at 12:08 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by Bryan Thielbar

Tom Morello also uses this effect extensively. He sets one of his pickups to zero and uses a pickup selector to switch back and forth between signal and no signal. Pretty cool hack.

Tom Morello (using this technique while “scratching” the strings on his guitar to get a DJ-record-scratching sound effect)

Posted at 12:38 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by CB

Not sure why the video is embedded… Pretty sure I used the link. The “scratch” solo is around 2:33 if you’re interested.

Posted at 12:55 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by CB

Not only is this an actually useful and cool hack, but there’s some decent music embedded in one of the replies and nobody is complaining.

Best Hack-a-Day post ever

;)

Posted at 1:37 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by James

Now he can play Buckethead’s – Jordan for REAL. :-)

Posted at 1:49 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by wifigod

I think this is super sweet! it seems so natural opposed to a button toggle/tap er not.. you would still use an up or down motion for it so I think it would be a Comfort to use…

Posted at 2:22 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by stinkymonkey

Buckethead has a button on that les paul. id like to see the fret buttons as killswithches on it also, that would be faster to use. GREAT HACK hope i didnt break the nice comment chain.

Posted at 3:46 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by Lolfret

When I read the headline, I automatically thought of a very cruel prank and rig the switch to turn off the controller when they started to play.. =)

Posted at 5:12 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by Ian

Reminds me of North Mississippi Allstars’ Luther Dickinson playing R. L. Burnside’s Snake Drive (he uses the pickup switch method, muting one of the pickups):

Posted at 6:36 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by James

Great Mod!

Definitely better than a button, and a lot of people are familiar with this control already from the game, so thats good.

However, I think a fader, like the type skratch DJ’s (turntablists) use. They don’t really fade, they kutt the sound on/off completely over a small travel distance; something like, .5MM

Vestax (Professional DJ Mixers)actually made a “guitar style” midi controller turntable thing that had a built in fader on the neck, I don’t know if it ever made it to production tho.

Here is a pic of it
http://www.skratchworx.com/images/plasa2005/vestax/s1_2.jpg
http://www.skratchworx.com/images/plasa2005/vestax/s1_2.jpg

Posted at 8:40 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by 36Chambers

Sweet! now he can play this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQvG2SMVl84#t=2m45s

Posted at 9:42 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by ASCII

I would beef up the middle “on” range of the thing; it was more off than on, but I can see where he was going with it. He can achieve a very fast manual switching rate, probably faster than attainable with just a pickup switch (it’s dead both in up and down positions, live in the middle).

Posted at 5:49 pm on Sep 5th, 2009 by PocketBrain

Tom Morello also uses the fast-kill technique (at a very fast pace) in Audioslave’s Shadow on the Sun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zhSRNFeQpM#t=2m29s

It makes me think he’s using a similar device with two dead zones, so it can be switched very quickly, one sound pulse per transition (up/down or down/up) instead of two transitions per pulse.

Posted at 12:28 pm on Sep 18th, 2009 by PocketBrain