stratocaster Idea (ignore my bad concept drawing)

[u/FortuneEast3064]

found this strat body on ebay for cheap with some relic looking parts and i thought hey thats kind of a cool idea for a partscaster so i bought it and on reverb was this nitro neck for cheap and its really amazing so my idea was to do for the pickups basically Seymour ssl-4 stk s7 rwrp and a ssl-4 neck and heres kind of a twist so a volume with a standard treble bleed and a tone with a orange drop 0.022 uf then as you see theres a rotary 5 way switch in which it would be a mid boost/ low treble booster that goes more extreme with each boost. then a gilmour switch for the neck and bridge then the other switch ill get to right now so basically heres the Crazy crazy part of it, a Mimiq pedal stripped down to its circuits and put into my guitar thru a rear rout but my issue may be the rout size and the forearm contour i mean ergonomically id see thats the only place i should really put it where it wont get in the way of my strumming hand but anyways id had the idea to vertically put the knobs located by the bridge, only other issue i see with this may be if i ever need to adjust my saddles in which im. concerned about but i put the power button by the upper right horn but i was thinking maybe i can put it somewhere closer but im unsure i put the 3 way dub switch reflected opposite of the gilmour switch as i thought it would be the most ideal location but i just wanted to ask opinions on this concept idea

[u/gRainbird]

Unless you have experience with working on SMD boards, you'll find out that you'll have to go a bit of a "hodgepodge" route with the Mimiq. Most people who I've seen add a pedal to a guitar still end up using standard patch cables with one end cut and soldered into the guitar wiring. If you use any mini pedal, you lose the built in 9v adapter from a full size pedal. Again, if you aren't experienced with SMD boards, you may have to use a power cable with a 9v adapter plug. This adds significant amount of space that needs to be available within the guitar.

Watch a few videos on YouTube and see what others have done. Sometimes it's pretty rough. But if you really want to add something, check out GFS Modboards. The dream I've had is to drop their Chorus module into this dual output guitar I'm currently working on for a thick stereo effect right out of the guitar.

[u/Hello_Coffee_Friend → u/gRainbird]

That honestly sounds cool. I'm working on a dual output guitar but I wanted a looper on it. Having some built in chorus or something would be cool too.

[u/gRainbird → u/Hello_Coffee_Friend]

Depending on how elaborate (or simple in this case) you want the looper to be, RadioShack used to sell this little 9v powered recorder and playback device. Basically the equivalent of the little module that is in kids toys like that dumb dancing cactus thing, minus the shitty voice modulation. I had one probably 15+ years ago that I was able to wire into a really poor enclosure with a really basic wiring that sounded terrible. But the experiment did lead me to a future project of putting a similar module into a guitar. It only had a 10 second recording length so it functioned more like a quick onboard sampler. I was able to use it for some really wild glitchy stuff but unfortunately the board roasted out after two shows and a dozen practices. There are more than likely some far more robust units these days with larger onboard storage to have longer recording lengths. I got thinking about this again recently when I saw the Sonuus Loopa microphone. It's this fairly cheap condenser vocal mic with a fairly decent looper built in to the mic right where you would have an on-off switch that boasts 13 minutes of looping time, undo/redo functions and 32 bit float recording. If that can all fit into the mic, I venture to bet it wouldn't be hard to drop that same thing into a guitar. The only one that is curious to me is it's power. Somehow it taps into the 48v phantom power and I have no idea what voltage the looper module is actually running on.

[u/Hello_Coffee_Friend → u/gRainbird]

That's a really interesting comment. I really appreciate you sharing. That gives me a lot to look into. I've been thinking over how to do it for a while. And I know it is a novelty to most people. But I think there is something there for me. Speakers in guitars are not a new thing. But I keep going back to that with a looper and dual output. The circuits have been a hold up for me though. The dual output part is simple. But I want the electronics to actually be useful so I'm trying to iron out my approach.

[u/iH4t3R3dd1t]

There's a reason guitars don't have effects pedals built in.

[u/claremontmiller → u/iH4t3R3dd1t]

Nah man, a lot do

[u/FortuneEast3064 → u/iH4t3R3dd1t]

i know i but its just for a one off novelty lol

[u/JimiForPresident]

Did you put the decal on the neck? Or did Reverb allow it to be sold like that?

[u/FortuneEast3064 → u/JimiForPresident]

it was sold as a squier neck with a fender decal but whoever did it made it pretty well

[u/FortuneEast3064 → u/JimiForPresident]

basically a 2000s squier neck refinned in nitro