{"id":279,"date":"2014-08-31T17:18:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T22:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/?page_id=279"},"modified":"2014-09-05T15:16:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T20:16:07","slug":"paul-humphrey-february-5-2014","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/interviews-2\/paul-humphrey-february-5-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Humphrey &#8211; 2\/5\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Interview with up-and-coming Tulsa Jazz Guitarist Paul Humphrey &#8211; February 5, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Paul Humphrey, then a music student at the University of Tulsa with a concentration in jazz music, graciously consented to give an interview while evaluating some of my guitars on February 5th, 2014.\u00a0 This is the first video interview I have ever conducted, so all the mistakes are mine.\u00a0 It was over an hour long, and was edited down to about 28 minutes, which is still too long for WordPress to upload.\u00a0 So it has been broken down into six shorter segments.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Part 1: A Decorated and Modified Fender Squier Stratocaster &#8482;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Paul-Humphrey-2014-02-05d-Part-1.wmv\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-196\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140825-001b-330-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"uvs140825-001b-330\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140825-001b-330-300x254.jpg 300w, http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140825-001b-330.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Paul-Humphrey-2014-02-05d-Part-1.wmv\">Download short video file: Widows Media AV, 320 x 240, 30 fps, 4.01 MB<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RD6viBsxBQg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RD6viBsxBQg\">YouTube video &#8211; Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This guitar has been <a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/guitarart\/Decals\/index.html\">decorated with my artwork, using vinyl van wrap material<\/a>.\u00a0 I rewired it with a 5-way superswitch to give all humbucking outputs from the three pickups, neck (N), middle (M) and bridge (B) &#8211; N &amp; M in series with signals adding, M &amp; B in series with signals adding, N &amp; M in parallel with signals adding, M &amp; B in parallel with signals adding, and N &amp; B in series with signals subtracting (counterphase).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-213 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/no2506c1-300x121.jpg\" alt=\"no2506c1\" width=\"300\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/no2506c1-300x121.jpg 300w, http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/no2506c1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/HPIM2257-e1409255067374.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-219\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/HPIM2257-e1409255011687-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM2257\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0Part 2: The Second Prototype Guitar &#8211; The Bloody Axe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140828-001b-300h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-205\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140828-001b-300h.jpg\" alt=\"uvs140828-001b-300h\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140828-002-300h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-206\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140828-002-300h.jpg\" alt=\"uvs140828-002-300h\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140828-003b-300h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-207\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140828-003b-300h-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"uvs140828-003b-300h\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140828-003b-300h-300x266.jpg 300w, http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140828-003b-300h.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Paul-Humphrey-2014-02-05d-Part-2.wmv?_=1\">Download Windows Media AV file, 320&#215;240, 30 fps, 15.6 MB<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QS1KRsoDxRM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QS1KRsoDxRM\">YouTube video &#8211; Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0This is the second prototype, made of a neck from an Austin strat-type guitar, a red oak board for the body, with masonite top and back.\u00a0 The first prototype, made of poplar and aluminum, warped and broke under string pressure.\u00a0 The top is hand-cut and painted.\u00a0 The back is curved to fit the musician&#8217;s body.\u00a0 Patent is pending on some of these improvements.\u00a0 It has two strat-type single coil pickups in fixed position under the top, with a switch to chose between serial humbucking and parallel humbucking outputs.\u00a0 A 12-position switch provides one unloaded positions, three clipping positions and 8 separate tone capacitors, connected to a volume pot and standard output jack.\u00a0 The bridge is fixed, non-tremolo, top-loading on a riser from the body.\u00a0 The top has a modest acoustic output, which can be tapped with a contact microphone, with different timbres at different positions on the top.\u00a0 Not a bad little guitar, shown here before the controls were added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P2290034b-500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-214\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P2290034b-500-300x112.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P2290034b-500-300x112.jpg 300w, http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P2290034b-500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P2290036a-500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-216\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P2290036a-500-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P2290036a-500-300x211.jpg 300w, http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P2290036a-500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Part 3: My First Electric Guitar &#8211; a Highly Modified Squier Bullet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140828-004-330h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-222\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140828-004-330h-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"uvs140828-004-330h\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140828-004-330h-300x286.jpg 300w, http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140828-004-330h.jpg 346w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140828-005-330h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-226\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140828-005-330h-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"uvs140828-005-330h\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140828-005-330h-300x276.jpg 300w, http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140828-005-330h.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Paul-Humphrey-2014-02-05d-Part-3.wmv?_=1\">Download Windows Media AV file, 320&#215;240, 30 fps, 11.1 MB<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/basFOUTl_6s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=basFOUTl_6s\">YouTube video &#8211; Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This was my first electric guitar, a Fender Squier Bullet &#8482;, bought around 2005, which I continued to modify over several years.\u00a0 First, knocking off the Statocaster &#8482; horns, then giving it a new paint job, then routing out the front and back to add a plastic electronic breadboard block under the pickguard, and middle and neck pickups.\u00a0 As you can see, it started with only a volume pot and a single humbucking bridge pickup.\u00a0 I eventually added to the pickguard: a pot to mix neck and bridge humbucking pickups, a preamp pot, a distortion pot, and an LED indicator for the 9 volt battery used to power the electronic circuit.\u00a0 The middle single-coil pickup proved to be unnecessary, and was taken out.\u00a0 It turned out that routing sections out of the front and back gave it some acoustic output, which in part led to later prototypes constructed around standard bolt-on necks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/HPIM1161b-350h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-225\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/HPIM1161b-350h-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM1161b-350h\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/HPIM1161b-350h-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/HPIM1161b-350h.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ap0306a1-350h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-224\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ap0306a1-350h-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"ap0306a1-350h\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ap0306a1-350h-238x300.jpg 238w, http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ap0306a1-350h.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/100_0069b-350h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-223\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/100_0069b-350h-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"100_0069b-350h\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/100_0069b-350h-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/100_0069b-350h.jpg 467w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Part 4: A Bass Decorated in 2006<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-240\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140829-001-300h-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"uvs140829-001-300h\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140829-004-300h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-243\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140829-004-300h-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"uvs140829-004-300h\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140829-003-300h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-242\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140829-003-300h.jpg\" alt=\"uvs140829-003-300h\" width=\"410\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140829-003-300h.jpg 410w, http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140829-003-300h-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Paul-Humphrey-2014-02-05d-Part-4.wmv?_=1\">Windows Media AV file, 320&#215;240, 30 fps, 6.8 MB<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FTFUSoyjL0s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FTFUSoyjL0s\">YouTube video &#8211; Part 4<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I decorated this Ibanez Cimar bass in 2006 with vinyl van wrap material digitally printed with my artwork, then <a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/guitarart\/Decals\/EdgeTaping.html\">covered with heavy overlaminate<\/a>.\u00a0 As with the previous orange guitar above in Part 1, I used scrap pieces to decorate the fret board.\u00a0 I made the orange dots with a hole punch and scrap material from the orange guitar decal.\u00a0 The artwork here comes from a B&amp;W photo I took of an art student&#8217;s sculpture armature (made of wire mesh and plaster) in the middle 1960s, when I was an engineering student taking photography classes for electives.\u00a0 I changed it to color with the Gradient tool in PhotoShop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-229 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/no2506b1.jpg\" alt=\"no2506b1\" width=\"600\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/no2506b1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/no2506b1-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Cimar body is made of heavy masonite.\u00a0 I tried to lighten it by drilling holes in the back, but eventually calculated that to take off even a pound, there wouldn&#8217;t be much back left.\u00a0 So I painted them blue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Part 5: Paul Humphrey Plays the (Patent Applied For) 4th Prototype Electric-Acoustic Guitar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140831-028-300w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-276\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140831-028-300w.jpg\" alt=\"uvs140831-028-300w\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140831-024-300w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-261\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140831-024-300w.jpg\" alt=\"uvs140831-024-300w\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140831-009-300w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140831-014-300w.jpg\" alt=\"uvs140831-014-300w\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140831-025-300w.jpg\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140831-012-300w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-263\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140831-012-300w.jpg\" alt=\"uvs140831-012-300w\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140831-025-300w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-277\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140831-027-300w.jpg\" alt=\"uvs140831-027-300w\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/> \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-262\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140831-025-300w.jpg\" alt=\"uvs140831-025-300w\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Paul-Humphrey-2014-02-05d-Part-5.wmv?_=1\">Windows Media AV file, 320&#215;240, 30 fps, 31.2 MB<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PxkfGZr3LPg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PxkfGZr3LPg\">YouTube video &#8211; Part 5<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P8031056b-313h-e1409602476422.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-288\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P8031056b-313h-109x300.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"109\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P9011066b-313h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-290\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P9011066b-313h-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P8031061b-313h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-289\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P8031061b-313h-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office received the Nonprovisional Patent Application for this guitar July 23, 2014.\u00a0 It has a removable artwork top, which has moderate acoustic output, and can be easily shaped and decorated to the owner&#8217;s desire.\u00a0 It is literally &#8220;Artwork You Can Play&#8221; &#8482;.\u00a0 Any number of pickups can be placed in almost any physical orientation between the neck and bridge.\u00a0 The usual guitar pickup, single-coil or humbucking, has only two degrees of freedom of adjustment, up or down beneath the strings at each end. This one allows that plus three more degrees of freedom, including position adjustments between the neck and bridge at each end and moving the whole pickup across the strings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-287 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P9011066d.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P9011066d.jpg 300w, http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P9011066d-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P9011066d-299x300.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This prototype, the 4th in a series extending over several years, has four single-coil pickups, which have been modified to equalized the number of turns among them.\u00a0 One five-way lever switch produces series-connected combinations of two coils each, all humbucking.\u00a0 The second five-way switch produces parallel combinations of two coils each, all humbucking.\u00a0 A series-parallel switch switches the output between them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This output is connected to a 12-way rotary switch with 11 separate capacitors, in parallel with the pickups (large red knob on the left, or 6-string side).\u00a0 The capacitors are chosen so that the peak frequency resonant with the pickup combination tends to decrease in steps equivalent to approximately four frets. Because the pickups sit beneath the top, this output connects to a battery powered pre-amplifier and distortion circuit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The distortion circuit approximates tube distortion, a curve like an italic-f.\u00a0 The distortion control increases the severity of this distortion, and at the highest setting produces a string-popping effect.\u00a0 The Linear-Distorted switch picks between the linear and distorted outputs of this circuit, and passes the choice along to the output jack.\u00a0 To the best of one&#8217;s knowledge, no available pedal or amplifier produces the string-popping effect.\u00a0 But Paul demonstrates that it can be used to good effect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With a choice of 11 parallel tone capacitors or none, 10 humbucking pickup circuits from four single-coil pickups, and linear or distorted outputs, this prototype has 12x10x2 or 240 different settings for tone and timbre. Plus, it can be played acoustically, or with a contact microphone clamped to the edge of the artwork soundboard.\u00a0 It can be used, as is, in genres from folk to blues to country to jazz to rock to metal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;If you can&#8217;t find something you like, you aren&#8217;t trying hard enough.&#8221;(tm)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Part 6: Paul Humphrey Comments on the Fourth Prototype<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140831-001-300w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-252\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140831-001-300w.jpg\" alt=\"uvs140831-001-300w\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140831-004-300w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-275\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140831-004-300w.jpg\" alt=\"uvs140831-004-300w\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140831-008-300w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-270\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140831-008-300w.jpg\" alt=\"uvs140831-008-300w\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140831-020-300w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-256\" src=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/uvs140831-020-300w.jpg\" alt=\"uvs140831-020-300w\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Paul-Humphrey-2014-02-05d-Part-6.wmv?_=1\">Windows Media AV file, 320&#215;240, 30 fps, 15 MB<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0P5vYyYaq0Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0P5vYyYaq0Y\">YouTube video &#8211; Part 6<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Let Paul&#8217;s comments speak for themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with up-and-coming Tulsa Jazz Guitarist Paul Humphrey &#8211; February 5, 2014 Mr. Paul Humphrey, then a music student at the University of Tulsa with a concentration in jazz music, graciously consented to give an interview while evaluating some of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/interviews-2\/paul-humphrey-february-5-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":170,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279\/revisions\/334"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}