Category Archives: guitar

Mp3DI Continued

I have sample sketches working separately with the mp3 module and the rotary encoder.  The next step is to get them working with some sort of visual indicator.  I think I have enough analog IO to push a 7 segment display.

Where do you find a panel mount xlr connector, a 1:1 audio transformer and a project box for $8?  In a pyle di from amazon.com!

I was going to leave the transformer on the pcb but I need to relocate it to accommodate all the  other bits…..

http://www.amazingtips247.co.uk/2015/11/how-to-play-sound-tracks-with-catalex.html

http://bildr.org/2012/08/rotary-encoder-arduino/

Kay KE10

My first electric guitar was a blue Kay from Williams Music in Worthington, Ohio.  I hacked out my first smoke on the water and crazy train on that guitar. It was traded in on a squire bullet a couple years later.   I had never been able to find reference to model numbers for this guitar, but I eventually found one on ebay in the same cobalt blue.  It sits in a chipboard case in my basement.

I still browse the ebay kay listings and I found the little blue guitars model number.  The KE10.  A google search turned up this cool catalog scan:

They made many variations of this model in the 70s and 80s. some were made in Japan,later ones were made in Korea.

This is a a guitar that was made by Teisco and sold under the Kay brand name,at least the version made in the early 70s was were made by Teisco.