it actually came stock with a pair of switches for coil splitting, which is part of what got my attention originally!

i def want to mod it, just not sure what to do. the last time i had a good and fully-functional electric guitar was before i was aware of the concept of guitar mods lol

in other words,

i apparently bought a guitar with 10 years of deferred maintenance and then deferred maintenance for another 10 years because using a specific pickup and smacking it occasionally made it work Good Enough™.

(you know, until it didn't.)

So, fixing that problem uncovered other problems. We're now at:

1. pickup selector switch was busted
2. 1/4" jack was loose
3. 1/4" jack needed a connection re-soldered
4. 1/4" jack needed to be cleaned
5. ??? one of the coil split switches makes audio cut out entirely ???

1-4 have been fixed.

alternating between

CoNtEnT-lEnGtH
cOnTeNt-LeNgTh

for every request to amos' website in particular <3

but what do i do with my [does some math and promptly dies inside] 20 years of ingrained habitual capitalization, amos?

nope. it's a basic dual-humbucker setup, aside from Ibanez adding rocker switches for coil splitting stock from the factory.

the best/worst part is

none of the shit that's visibly wrong is what's broken!

the problem is that switch is dead.

If you're curious about the guitar: it's an Ibanez Jet King 1, with the "butterscotch" paint job.

It appears to be from the first year of production (2003), given that they supposedly started painting the headstock black in 2004. Not confirmed this, though.

Support organizations that stand up for their values and act in the interests of their community. Especially when doing so makes things harder for them.

And @python.org absolutely does this.

understandable lmao

I've been reading up on the "500-series format": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500-ser...

It seems like it's a modular system for audio signal processing.

I'm thinking of getting a portable 500-series setup with effects + recording functionality since I don't have a dedicated recording area for my synth.

(If you like Bork, Emanate, Homf, or Jim, please consider supporting me on GitHub Sponsors so I can dedicate more time to them. 💜 github.com/sponsors/duc... )

merging a PR that bumps jim's version number will now trigger a release: github.com/duckinator/j... :3

I'm not sure how to feel about the fact that this project was a shitpost 5 weeks ago.

oh, and it also generates changelogs to put in the GitHub Release message, like bork does. got so excited about the release part working that i forgot to mention that. 😄

in general, if you've used bork, this'll feel familiar.