Peavey Generation EXP 2 humbucking test with mod (Telecaster with piezo pickup)

A great and cheap Telecaster clone, with some (big) problems easily solved by a few soldering, a switch and a good setup (factory one was awful). Tested with Epiphone Blues Custom 30 on clean channel, DIY power attenuator by Tube Town and DIY MXR DynaComp by Tonepad

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• Peavey
• Generation
• EXP
• Guitar
• Telecaster
• piezo
• mod
• noise
• epiphone
• blues
• custom
• 30
• tube
• town
• pos
• power
• attenuator
• diy
• dynacomp
• tonepad

[7mrawesome]

What is the guitars neck, body, and fretboard made of?

[rafport]

@7mrawesome it should be (i checked now and in the Italian Peavey site this model evanished) has alder body, maple neck and rosewood fretboard.

[Bossa4Sol]

Hi Rafport!

I gave my guitar to a tech guy, but he told me that wiring looks very complex, and not sure he'll be able to do the rewiring to leave out piezo for humbuckers.

Can you please help me with some instructions.

Are these humbucker passive?

Did you have to replace the 6 pole switch to a 9 pole one?

..

Thanx

Sol

[rafport]

@Bossa4Sol respect a typical electric guitar there are lots of wire there. but most of them are isolated. There are 2 separate circuit, the piezo one with the motherboard and the electrical one (the guitar has absolutely common pickups with 4 wire, no active pickups). The gap is that the output of magnetic pickup go into that motherboard, so if you turn off power to this almost all signal gone. You need to separate the pickup signal from the piezo signal. It's easier that it seem at first :)

[icarusrohit]

@rafport Hey!

tried the footswitch thing. inserted a cable into the footsw i/p and wen i touch the other end, the noise stops. altho when i insert it into the other end in the earthing point, nothing happens (improper contact mayb). but i wonder y cant they provide a 3 pin plug like regular gadgets..

[rafport]

@icarusrohit very good, you find it. if touching the wire in the fw cable stop the noise, you get the proof it is a ground problem. seek for a way to solve (at least did yourself another electric wire with the plug, connect just the ground and put a guitar plug on the other side) if you prefer not to open the amp and change all the wire, so you save the guarantee if the amp is still new :)

[Bossa4Sol]

@rafport

Hi!

Thanx for the reply, I only got time by now to take a look on it.

It was really easy to do only with rewiring, and now I can use it as I want.. stereo/mono without noise.

The first time that I hear the nice drive sounds of this guitar and it's really good.

Regards

Sol

[rafport]

@icarusrohit a very easy thing you can do, is to just connect an external metal part of the amp (even with a "flying" wire, it is not risky) to the metal part of a computer case, computer cases are grounded (if you obviously has grounded network in home and use cables and multiplug with ground pin). if connecting those 2 parts and your guitar stop to do this bad noise without touching the strings, you need a ground. if so, you'll find a better way to ground it :)

[rafport]

@icarusrohit for ground an amp you have to connect the negative to ground. usually all metal parts (like guitars and stompboxes) are connected to negative. for example i used a common guitar cable insert in the external footswitch jack of the amp, and i cutted the other side and connect just the central pin to the negative of the jack, so the amp is grounded with no opening anything. you can for example connect the jack to another thing with a jack wich is grounded, another amp for example