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Who here has built in effects in their guitars?  I just got some really nice pieces of ash last night from a guy in my woodworking club, and am planning to start another JM build, but this time, I would like to use the rhythm circuit cavity to put in some type of effect(s).  I am thinking maybe a fuzz of some kind and/or some sort of feedbacker that I can play with using the roller knobs somehow.

Any thoughts?  I have never built any effects, so this would be a first for me.

I would be especially curious to hear what other people have done and see some pictures.

there are plenty of modifications on youtube. even a modded squier cyclone with a kaoss pad and fuzz factory. 

I swear...
we must all share some greater-collective, psychic, jazzmaster bond or something.
I was thinking about that very thing last night and when I went to search it, your post popped up.
That's a couple times in the past couple days...
Too funny...

I wondered about doing the same thing to the rhythm circuit on my next project - I have no idea how to execute...
I'll be watching this one closely. 

Glad to know I am not the only person who thought this might be a good idea.  I am especially interested in some kind of feedbacker/noisemaker type thing.  I want to be able to make sounds like in the middle of this song, but do it with knobs and stuff on board.  I managed these sounds wth some accidental combination of my Dano Leslie pedal, Dano delay, and Crybaby wah.  It was totally unrehearsed and came out like a wall of sound that startled and excited my bandmates.  (Sorry in advance for the fact that the guitar is way high in the mix - there were two hanging speakers in our practice space and one was apparently too close to my amp - just turn the sound to the left speaker a bit).

Anyway, I want to be able to do something like that without trying to figure out the combination of pedals.  If I can drive the feedback a bit with the wah, all the better.

i've got an impedance buffer/booster pedal in my red guitar.i thought about putting more wacky effects in my guitar like you guys are talking about, but then i realized that i didn't want to risk routing big holes in one of my guitars just so i can stick in pedals that i'd never be able to use with another guitar. and to be honest, i like kneeling down to my pedalboard and dialing the fuckout of it for noise and general craziness.

AGREED! Routing will rule it out for me - but if there are any mods that will work within the existing cavities, I'm IN!

hansonparry wrote: I swear...
we must all share some greater-collective, psychic, jazzmaster bond or something.

  I, too, have been entertaining the idea of an onboard fuzz of some kind, lately!  I play through a VOX Valvetronix and I love it to death, but about the only feature it doesn't have is a fuzz.  Its hard to find anything online about what I need for an onboard fuzz and how to put it together.  I didn't think of youtube...

aen put a built in fuzz in his duo sonic.
i got a fuzz distortion out of an old dano hodad or something like that.
the use of the rythm section is a good idea for a fuzz/ effect area.

Details, man, details! 

aen wrote:

Thinking about doing something like that with my Behringer vintage dstortion.. cause well, the case is pretty shite..

northern_dirt wrote:
Thinking about doing something like that with my Behringer vintage dstortion.. cause well, the case is pretty shite..

That could be possible, because the chips and stuff are really small in the vintage distortion, aren't they?

j-op wrote:

northern_dirt wrote:
Thinking about doing something like that with my Behringer vintage dstortion.. cause well, the case is pretty shite..

That could be possible, because the chips and stuff are really small in the vintage distortion, aren't they?

TINY! I think Aen put up a pic once..

  There's been a thread on the Jaguar Bottom Master lately and I found out they have a built-in fuzz.  Does anyone know any details on that?

northern_dirt wrote:

j-op wrote:

northern_dirt wrote:
Thinking about doing something like that with my Behringer vintage dstortion.. cause well, the case is pretty shite..

That could be possible, because the chips and stuff are really small in the vintage distortion, aren't they?

TINY! I think Aen put up a pic once..

I can't remember where I saw a pic, but I'm pretty sure it looked like all the electronics would fit in the rythm circuit cavity of JM.