Rather than playing it : Active pickup voltage increase

Been reading about adding a second battery to active guitar circuitry--
apparently you can just slap a second battery in series with the existing cell, and you get magic attack boost and laser strings.

there is also information on further increasing to 24v, but all pertinent information is in regard to EMG active picups; according to the manufacturer, you won't get as dramatic a magic between 18v  to 24v as you do 9v to 18v.

*extra six volts are achieved by some form of adapter whatever 12v batteries whatever

pictured :
-9v battery
-velcro
-9v terminal, prepped for installation
-two position / nine terminal toggle switch

quarter for perceive














Since I pulled (the volume and tone pots out of) my rod, there's plenty of room for an extra battery.



*I hate using a noise gate for anything but removing tube hiss.  seriously, I effing hate it.  therego, one of existing body hole become cut-switch.  easy peasy wtfe.



cut switch is a hot lead to ground switch, as opposed to power snap k-k-k-k-k-k-k--killszone

*Insulate the battery casing.  It's steel.  If your battery becomes dislodged in the main compartment and shorts something delicious, it'll burn your beans on the grill.  seriously.  don't chance it. velcro strips are cheap and easy to strap on like fake dick.

+prep cavity for new cell (sticky shit, velcro)

+measure distance from battery to inner compartment plate

+attach appropes foam thick for to support batts

+Appropriately wire terminals of switchbob

She works.

But I've rediscovered Prior Problema that drove me for a while - 

Farty clipping through any interface. 

Even at the lowest gain settings,  padded way down

Straight to the amp

And through the M13

I had fixed the situation

Whence first the problem arose
by reading a reputable book or journal and creating a source page.  

that a passive volume pedal was the cure,

It was in spades

that

prior setup was : 

Guitar >vol>M13> computer : crystal clear and free of parasites

this allowed me to practice with headphones and without the need to use the EDstack.

But along the way the ernie ball VP Jr  potentiometer begin to disassemble itself and was cut for insubordination, purpose forgotten. 

Not realizing tone had been compromised by great lover, continued to chase clipping through amplifier components and in-line effects. 

Now having completed  construction of  monolithic recording interface, again  is realized that tone has remorseful clip directly from guitar. 

18v mod will supposedly quash pup clipping, however it failed to do so for EMG 81/85 setup.
with 2x spanking Sony 9v (9.67v ondameeter)

Again the VP was called upon to attenuate signal.

Totally worth increasing voltage to 18v. 

This will not be contested. 

Sounds are infinitely cooler and more dynamic. Headroom is crazy. No tube noise discernible when running high gain and not playing.  

After being taken completely apart and rewired to permattenuate hot hot signal,  and plugging in properly (multiple times backward,  beforehand) signal chain clips free. 

*If you have active EMG pickups, it's worth all the time it takes to add a second 9v.

*If your active EMG pickups sound farty and distorted, even when you're on a clean channel, with minimal gain --
you have clip.  Figure out how to simulate the potentiometer or buy a replacement potentiometer and wire it in a juice carton.  Tone will be thank.

***Also realized I had marked R1 on Preamp pcb as bad, it was so totally like 0.whatever ohms.  and I was like, you should be 1M.  so i dug through some shit and found a metal film .96whateverM and I'm about to test it. Porbus the source of chassis noise I've been getting from preamp valve one, because it sits right in front of it.  makes sense.

Udate:: new 1M resistor at prepcb R1 does not cure clipping from 81/85 18v combo. Difference with  VP JR is slightly decrease volume with no clipping.

Ultimate answer (chpmode) is buy the potentiometer and stick it in a box. Or the T-pad thing; get resistances from both sides of the pot and user resistors.  Since i had the components on hand it was simpler. Fuck off. 

G.g.