Comments on: Guitar Hero strum bar as guitar kill switch

By: Guitar Center Coupons

Guitar Center Coupons — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:38:34 +0000

Music is definitely my passion. this year eventually will organize my band and I’ll come to play again.

By: PocketBrain

PocketBrain — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:28:08 +0000

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.

By: PocketBrain

PocketBrain — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:49:45 +0000

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).

By: ASCII

ASCII — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:42:51 +0000

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

By: 36Chambers

36Chambers — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:40:22 +0000

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

By: James

James — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:36:19 +0000

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):

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:12:15 +0000

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.. =)

By: Lolfret

Lolfret — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:46:32 +0000

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.

By: stinkymonkey

stinkymonkey — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:22:44 +0000

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…

By: wifigod

wifigod — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:49:10 +0000

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

By: James

James — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:37:22 +0000

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

;)

By: CB

CB — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:55:35 +0000

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

By: CB

CB — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:38:07 +0000

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)

By: Bryan Thielbar

Bryan Thielbar — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:08:59 +0000

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

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:25:30 +0000

What? No Arduino? BOOO!

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