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Darren Wolbold commented on roberto cipriano's photo

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"I love it !"

May 12

Darren Wolbold replied to 407bug's discussion CBG.UK Radio - We need your tunes!

"You can rip them with this http://www.snipmp3.com/ Not to sure where the masters are"

Apr 19

Darren Wolbold replied to 407bug's discussion CBG.UK Radio - We need your tunes!

"Give these a go you can play them if you like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LzNnatRBIY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8ANv1W4b7M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCb0cQY2RPA "

Apr 19

Darren Wolbold replied to EzMac's discussion Quiet piezo's

"Have you tried de soldering the volume and testing the signal from just one of piezos ? I would do this in this situation"

Apr 19

Darren Wolbold commented on BeetleJuice!'s group Vintage Radio Guitar Amps ~Converted & Amp Kits~

"I am aways get jealous when I look at American Radios they remind me of the best of American cars, futuristic and full of hope "

Apr 17

Darren Wolbold commented on BeetleJuice!'s group Vintage Radio Guitar Amps ~Converted & Amp Kits~

"Yes Its got ear phone out too, also I can roll the tone down to take the tops off the piezo pick ups to get what sound to me a very sweet sound. The radio is still fully functional too !"

Apr 17

Darren Wolbold replied to EzMac's discussion Quiet piezo's

"It sounds quite odd as they usually but out quite a health signal and you usually ahve to dampen them abit hot glue on the disk is good Is there more than one pick up in there and how did you wire them ? I guess they could be over…"

Apr 15

Darren Wolbold replied to David Bowes's discussion Tuners

"I use the same as slow paw steve I get them from ebay as well and they seam quite good quality for both steel and nylon strings http://darrenscigarboxguitars.blogspot.co.uk/ "

Apr 15

HarleyTodd replied to Darren Wolbold's discussion Very basic resonators in the group How loud can we make it?

"Nice blog page Jeff. I enjoyed your quality pictures"

Apr 14

Darren Wolbold replied to jawbone's discussion Little LM386 amp in my second build!!!

"Awesome I did £25 on ebay a got a load of old radios, I managed to "hot wire" one that still worked The rest would make exalent cabs for small amps like the little gem or ruby This is the radio amp…"

Apr 13

Darren Wolbold replied to jawbone's discussion Little LM386 amp in my second build!!!

"Glad you got it working. I found the little Gem ok, but not so good with a piezo as the ruby amp I think this is because of the extra input stage provided by the transistor My CBG blog http://darrenscigarboxguitars.blogspot.co.uk/"

Apr 13

Darren Wolbold commented on BeetleJuice!'s group Vintage Radio Guitar Amps ~Converted & Amp Kits~

"Hear is the radio amp I made after watching reddogs videos on line. I think this is a UK radio make, the conversion was quite easy tapping in behind the volume. I also get the tone knob too ! This is what it sounds…"

Apr 9

Darren Wolbold joined dj.xsusb's group

Piezo pickups

All ideas to make piezoelectricsound good and stable.See More

Mar 23

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Darren Wolbold commented on Graham's group Share the Music & Vids

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LzNnatRBIY A track I recorded last year "

Mar 23

Darren Wolbold replied to Tom Lauten's discussion Resonator piezo pick up approaches?

"I like using two piezoes in parallel I mount them to the neck inside the box with hot glue and hot glue covering the exposed side also to tame them a bit. You might be able to drill them ok, the white stuff on them is the…"

Mar 23

Darren Wolbold commented on Benjibogs's blog post Building my first CBG

"Sure looks good ! warning your addiction will now start I have used a similar box and they work grate Also I had a go at the bobby pin method for fretting and I think it worked out very well http://darrenscigarboxguitars.blogspot.co.uk/"

Mar 23