Hi. first off i have absolutly no idea about electronics, but i do have a good musical ear which brings me here. Lemme explain...........
I have a 1978 MusicMan Sabre2 guitar which goes through a Boss GT-3 Processor. The guitar has a built-in active circuitry for the Dual Humbucker Low Impedance Output Pickups, and it also provides a seperate bass and treble system.
The guitars active circuit runs off of a 9V square battery which is housed within the guitar body. Over the years of playing, i prefer the sound when the 9V battery has degraded and outputting between 7.5V and 8.5V. So here's the question........
Is it possible to either purposly degrade the battery to the required output prior to usage, or add an additional circuit (or whatever is needed), to the guitar, so that i could manually select between 7.5V and 8.5V output of the 9V battery. Obviously this is needed only when the battery is new, but a new battery can take anything from 1 year onwards to degrade to the point of the sound output i enjoy.
In the past i have relied on other people to donate their old batteries when they become useless for their purposes, but they are now becoming hard to obtain. Fearing the worse, i've posted here in the hope someone could help.
Thanks
I have a 1978 MusicMan Sabre2 guitar which goes through a Boss GT-3 Processor. The guitar has a built-in active circuitry for the Dual Humbucker Low Impedance Output Pickups, and it also provides a seperate bass and treble system.
The guitars active circuit runs off of a 9V square battery which is housed within the guitar body. Over the years of playing, i prefer the sound when the 9V battery has degraded and outputting between 7.5V and 8.5V. So here's the question........
Is it possible to either purposly degrade the battery to the required output prior to usage, or add an additional circuit (or whatever is needed), to the guitar, so that i could manually select between 7.5V and 8.5V output of the 9V battery. Obviously this is needed only when the battery is new, but a new battery can take anything from 1 year onwards to degrade to the point of the sound output i enjoy.
In the past i have relied on other people to donate their old batteries when they become useless for their purposes, but they are now becoming hard to obtain. Fearing the worse, i've posted here in the hope someone could help.
Thanks