When jamming live I used to occasionally press the head of my bass into the frame of the cabinet to get huge sustain & almost keyboard sub-lows. Cool concept 🤘🏼
What about a cheap headphone amp to just drive the speaker? Use a Y cable to split the signal from the guitar, that way you don’t need the second cable to the output of the amp.
Is it possible to make it simpler to use (not necessarily to build) by creating a splitter of the signal internally in the guitar, so the output goes to the amp as normal, but in the space where electronics is hidden in the guitar add an extra battery powered circuit that will send a signal to the exciter speaker, with everything being effectively hidden inside the guitar?
So that's much closer to a sustainiac. I was hoping to make something that could go on any guitar, and also be removable. That was the hard part. I damaged the guitar when I removed the speaker, but you really do need a solid connection between the speaker and the guitar.
I think I figured out a design for us all. Option 1. Add a tiny digital amp and battery pack into the guitar. Guitar output splits to the tiny amp, and your normal amp. Option 2. Replace guitar output jack with TRRS. Wire it normally, but add the sustainer speaker inputs to the extra contacts. Make a custom cable to take (guitar output) to (amp input) as normal, while ALSO sending (amp output) to (sustainer input), in one cable. Make a pedalboard enclosure for the other end of said cable, with TS jacks, to split/combine (guitar output) and (amp output) to their respective destinations. The theory is to build the exact same thing, but condense it all into ONE CABLE baby. Clear as mud, but feel free to ask questions. It's simpler than it sounds!
Hello my friend. Very , very intresting video ! My little amp. has no input for other external speaker.May I put it in phones out ? or in parallel with the existing amp. speaker? Thank you, very much !!!!
The headphone amp won't have enough power to drive the speaker. If you can run parallel with the existing amp speaker. BUT - I don't know for sure, since I don't know what amp you've got.
There are a ton of cheap guitar pedal-sized guitar amps available The 100W Harley Benton GP-100 only costs 77€, for instance, and it's tiny: 162 x 100 x 64 mm. The 30W Mooer Baby Bomb is even smaller
If anyone has tried this, I'm assuming that if you put a volume pedal between the amp and the exciter then you get control of when you want the feedback/sustain to happen?
The cable running to the speaker on the guitar is carrying high power, it will break/burn any pedals. But yeah - you'd still want some kind of on/off switch.
Oh yes, of course, I hadn't considered that. I have seen someone else on TH-cam try this exciter/feedback idea and they had a volume pedal in there somewhere, but probably a different setup, to save the pedal from being fried. Thanks for your answer.
@@RogerWarszawa You COULD split the guitar signal and run to two amps, so the second amp is only to drive the feedback look. But now you've gone from cheap solution to complicated and expensive... But there you'd have a volume pedal ability.
In the end, it proved to be just too clunky. When/if they make a smaller, more powerful version of the speaker, it might work. I think it's a great concept, simple solution, but at the moment, it's kind of like attaching a lunchbox to the back of your guitar, with its own cable. Recording in a studio? It'd be cool to do. Onstage? I mean if you sit in one place, probably.
SOOOOO - your comment got me to check into alternative options. I found a magnetic one, about the size of a silver dollar. Just ordered it. I'll post with updates when it arrives.
![Victory Amps MK Clean & OD [With Martin Kidd & Lee Anderton]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/PgKHBpHKQ-g/mqdefault.jpg)
Great explanation. I got a laugh out of "the guitable". Thanks!
This is a way to get Hendrix out of my head & into the amp. 👍👍👍👍
When jamming live I used to occasionally press the head of my bass into the frame of the cabinet to get huge sustain & almost keyboard sub-lows. Cool concept 🤘🏼
Now I want to put strings and frets on a table 😂
Genius invention!
What about a cheap headphone amp to just drive the speaker? Use a Y cable to split the signal from the guitar, that way you don’t need the second cable to the output of the amp.
Is it possible to make it simpler to use (not necessarily to build) by creating a splitter of the signal internally in the guitar, so the output goes to the amp as normal, but in the space where electronics is hidden in the guitar add an extra battery powered circuit that will send a signal to the exciter speaker, with everything being effectively hidden inside the guitar?
So that's much closer to a sustainiac. I was hoping to make something that could go on any guitar, and also be removable. That was the hard part. I damaged the guitar when I removed the speaker, but you really do need a solid connection between the speaker and the guitar.
I think I figured out a design for us all. Option 1. Add a tiny digital amp and battery pack into the guitar. Guitar output splits to the tiny amp, and your normal amp.
Option 2. Replace guitar output jack with TRRS. Wire it normally, but add the sustainer speaker inputs to the extra contacts.
Make a custom cable to take (guitar output) to (amp input) as normal, while ALSO sending (amp output) to (sustainer input), in one cable.
Make a pedalboard enclosure for the other end of said cable, with TS jacks, to split/combine (guitar output) and (amp output) to their respective destinations.
The theory is to build the exact same thing, but condense it all into ONE CABLE baby.
Clear as mud, but feel free to ask questions. It's simpler than it sounds!
Thanks mate, this is amazing.
Hello my friend. Very , very intresting video !
My little amp. has no input for other external speaker.May I put it in phones out ? or in parallel with the existing amp. speaker?
Thank you, very much !!!!
The headphone amp won't have enough power to drive the speaker. If you can run parallel with the existing amp speaker.
BUT - I don't know for sure, since I don't know what amp you've got.
@@BeauregardHall I have the Roland Micro Cube GX Amp. I thing is 3 W.
@@BeauregardHall Thank you any way
@@pantelis.oldman3120 The amp I used in my original video was 5W so I'm thinking your amp could work?
There are a ton of cheap guitar pedal-sized guitar amps available The 100W Harley Benton GP-100 only costs 77€, for instance, and it's tiny: 162 x 100 x 64 mm. The 30W Mooer Baby Bomb is even smaller
If anyone has tried this, I'm assuming that if you put a volume pedal between the amp and the exciter then you get control of when you want the feedback/sustain to happen?
The cable running to the speaker on the guitar is carrying high power, it will break/burn any pedals. But yeah - you'd still want some kind of on/off switch.
Oh yes, of course, I hadn't considered that. I have seen someone else on TH-cam try this exciter/feedback idea and they had a volume pedal in there somewhere, but probably a different setup, to save the pedal from being fried. Thanks for your answer.
@@RogerWarszawa You COULD split the guitar signal and run to two amps, so the second amp is only to drive the feedback look. But now you've gone from cheap solution to complicated and expensive... But there you'd have a volume pedal ability.
Have you thought any more about producing these? I want one!
In the end, it proved to be just too clunky. When/if they make a smaller, more powerful version of the speaker, it might work. I think it's a great concept, simple solution, but at the moment, it's kind of like attaching a lunchbox to the back of your guitar, with its own cable. Recording in a studio? It'd be cool to do. Onstage? I mean if you sit in one place, probably.
SOOOOO - your comment got me to check into alternative options. I found a magnetic one, about the size of a silver dollar. Just ordered it. I'll post with updates when it arrives.
@@BeauregardHall awesome!
Hell yeah man I’m a fan I’m gonna subscribe.