December 5, 2011
Excerpt:
Both the neck and bridge pickups were purchased from EBay through a trusted seller, so it’s not his fault. But basically, using my trusty Kobalt Brand digital caliper, it was discovered that the outside pole to pole distance on both of these vintage pickups are the same…precise to the nearest hundredth of a millimeter. The caliper tool shows this to be 55.50mm for both bridge and neck pickups…
http://alvarolupinacci.com/projects/
December 5, 2011
Added a short update to the Projects section http://alvarolupinacci.com/projects/ about a G&L Guitar project currently being worked on–ignoring the plethora of others simultaneously in progress as well!
Here’s what the guitar sounds like so far:
http://alvarolupinacci.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/glprojectguitar12-3-11.mp3
This audio file is very large–about 34Megabytes. The first section is just playing around with cleaner sounds, but the second section drives the amp in order to get a feel for the way the pickups behave with a stronger signal output.
Note that all of these are improvised “off the top of my head” simply to determine whether or not the project should go forward to completion.
Enjoy!
September 19, 2011
The last post on this blog was nearly a year ago–busy, busy! A new page has been added and is being updated as time permits. It’s a projects page showing some of the various projects Lupi has been working on over the last year or so.
Enjoy!
October 8, 2010
Just a quick post about one of my older G&L basses that had a bad coil in the neck position and a plug for Sentell Pickups…Basically, what happened is that I had recently aquired an older Series E L-2000 from EBay and found out that it had several electronics problems–one of these was a bad coil, and the other one was an odd (and very rare) circuit design “flaw” that some of these basses had in the old days before there was a modification. You can read about that here at the basses by leo forum: http://www.bassesbyleo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=127&start=30
Anyhow, I just want to make a suggestion for people who need to have guitar or bass pickups rewound by a professional at a great price and quick service as well.
Consider Jerry Sentell for all of your pickups rewinding needs. He had my pickup rewound to specs and back to me within a week!
Check out Sentell Pickups here: www.sentellpickups.net
September 13, 2010
I’ve added a new song to the Song Samples area on 9/13/10. I’m calling it “Burn it!” in light of the recent events about people burning korans (Qurans for the politically correct) and bibles like one gigantic pissing contest to see who can burn the most “holy” books and cross the finish line–disgusting!!! I’d like to do a video with this music in the background and a large tribe of idiots dancing around with a heap of burning garbage in front of them.
What a wonderful world we live in!
June 17, 2010
Hello everyone!
iTunes recently released Lupi’s new single titled “A New Earth.” He’s still working on the material for his second CD release, and he hopes to have that out sometime this year. But in the mean time, go and check out A New Earth on iTunes.
http://itunes.apple.com/album/a-new-earth/id378098551?o=a
A New Earth on iTunes
April 14, 2010
I just uploaded a walking bass “ditty” …it was sure fun recording…Check it out on the Song Samples page with today’s date 4-14-10…there is one area that clipping occured (power surge) toward the end, but I didn’t want to redo it…Enjoy! It’s just a demo anyhow…
April 7, 2010
I’ve added a new subpage from the main page of Equipment. To navigate to it from the main page, look at the right-hand side of the main page under Equipment and select “New Equipment.” I’ve been thinking about adding this for a while. Add comments or suggestions if you like….
March 7, 2010
I’ve added yet another instrumental meandering jazz improv to the Song Samples tab. It’s titled “JazzImprovAgain.mp3.” Check it out! It’s here: http://alvarolupinacci.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/jazzimprovagain.mp3
January 24, 2010
A fan sent this to me recently. It’s a very short film (about 15min) by Kurt Kuenne. We are in the new year, and it’s a great time to smile for the future–It’s whatever you make it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk980jV7Ao&feature=youtube_gdata
