[PD] Miller's PD-Guitar Workshop LAC 2008

[Tom Erbe]

If you don't want to build your own, RMC has a preamp/breakout box

http://www.rmcpickup.com/fanoutbox.html

Slightly expensive though...

On Mar 14, 2008, at 10:02 AM, Miller Puckette wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I believe mine is a GK-2A as well.  I built an unbalanced preamp and
> power supply, and didn't get any appreciable hum.  (However, I do
> sometimes get ground loop trouble batween computers and audio systems
> and sometimes have to ground lift my computer and monitor, which is a
> bit dangerous.)
>
> I've put the files up on http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/lac/ but I don't
> know if they'll be too useful for folks who weren't there to see what
> the patches did.  Roughly speaking, the patch works out the techniques
> described in the "patch for guitar" paper.
>
> cheers
> Miller
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 09:18:46AM -0700, info at timvets.net wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to get some more information about which Pickup was  
>>> used by
>> Miller (was it the GK-3 ??)
>>
>> Hi Luigi and list,
>>
>> here's what I use:
>>
>> -Roland GK-2A pickup ( http://www.roland.com/products/en/GK-2A/specs.html 
>>  )
>> -a homebrew 6-channel preamp which gives 6 balanced line signals  
>> that go
>> straight into my soundcard.
>> First the preamp's signal was not balanced but I got ground loop  
>> noise at
>> some venues.
>> Even before that, I had a preamp built into my roland GR-50, but  
>> then I
>> figured I wasn't going to use that anyway, so I got rid of it  
>> completely.
>> The preamp also provides power for the GK-2A.
>> Although the pickup is right next to the bridge, after eq-ing out  
>> some
>> highs I can get pretty decent results.
>> I have some recordings online if you want.
>>
>> gr,
>> Tim
>>
>>
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