Custom DIY Guitar Sustainer Driver Build Instructions

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This is the first video in a new series where I will be showing exactly how I constructed my DIY Guitar Sustainer. This new design works a lot better than the original DIY design I posted a video of almost 3 years ago, and it's easier to build. This video covers the construction of the Sustainer Driver. If you have any questions, just post them here, and please subscribe!

Special thanks to the guys at Project Guitar Forums in the Sustainer thread (Especially PSW, Col, Avalon, and Truth_David)

You can read that thread here, although it is no longer active --
http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=7512&st=2685

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[aCloudOfHaze]

has anyone actually tried this? does it work well?

[MRJSTUDIOS]

@aCloudOfHaze I've built 4 drivers using these specs and all 4 worked well. I also know of at least 5 other people who have built drivers just like this that work.

[CODMW219]

so my guitar has two dual coils (neck and bridge) and someone told me the singlecoils could be seperated. so could i do this with one of the single coils on the neck?

[MRJSTUDIOS]

@CODMW219 Sure. You'd have to tear apart the humbucker and re-wire it though if it doesn't have a 4 conductor cable on it. If you want to use one of the coils as a sustainer driver, that would involve removing the old coil and using 32AWG magnet wire to rewind it to 8 ohms, etc.... a lot more work.

[cjdavda]

Thank you for putting this up

[whereisthiscity]

Finish it please! I want all Schematic pleasssseeeeeeeeeee!

[happydiskproductions]

@CODMW219 coil tap...will turn it into a single coil

[warmingtone]

Good to see you are back in sustainer land...psw

[dvlwrsprda74]

@MRJSTUDIOS I finaly made it work! I trashed my old pre-made board and just went ahead and made a new one, and i pot my driver more. Works great now. Thanks for your help!

[MRJSTUDIOS]

@dvlwrsprda74 That kind of noise usually indicates a problem with the driver itself. You might also have some sort of oscillation in the circuit itself though -- but that's less likely, especially if it was a pre-made board.

[dvlwrsprda74]

@MRJSTUDIOS Don't get me wrong it's not feed back it's a sort of a really thin hum. Yes i'm pretty sure I pot it with glue really well.