Hello, first post here, and I am very much an electronics newbie.
I started designing and building acoustic guitars, and now want to add electronics. I would like to add a simple 4 or 5 band EQ to my current guitar (in the guitar, not an outboard module.) All of the commercially available drop in modules are big, ugly, clunky looking things that I would not want sticking out of the side of my guitar. 3-band EQ is not quite enough, as I want to have better control over the mids.
I don't need preamp capabilities - the pickup manufacturers offer preamps that are cheap and sound good, so I want to use those. I just want to add volume and EQ pots, probably small sliders. Again, just a newbie, but I'm looking at maybe using
Bourns sliding potentiometers, audio taper. These will mount on the inside of the curved side of an acoustic guitar, so I will use short slider length. All I want sticking out of the guitar are the levers (coming through slits in the wood) for a relatively stealthy look compared to the plastic monstrosities availabee commercially.
So, now you know the scope of the project. And, I could really use some very basic help on designing the circuit. Since I'm such a newbie, I don't know but hope this can be done as a passive circuit, and still sound clean. I found a
project for a 6-band EQ which is just slightly overkill for inside a guitar, and is active rather than passive, but maybe this could be adapted. I also may need to go with an active circuit to make a decent EQ.
I'll stop here, and ask if I'm in the right place, if I'm on track, and if anyone can help me with this (or just tell me to build the 6-band and be done with it.)
Thanks!
Dennis