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NAGSS

My new project goes by the code name of NAGSS. The idea sprung from all the TCP posts I have been writing, and talking with a fellow guitar geek of mine online about the miscellaneous ways to wire a pickup circuit. In the spirit of every freeware program ever written, the codename for my project is an acronym. It stands for Nightmarish Automated Guitar Switching Software (all credit to CTheHammer for that).

Basically, I want to write a logicworks-like program that allows you to create circuits and test them from within the program. Not only will this project be fun, but it will also be a very educational experience for me. I will have to understand all these wiring diagrams in order to be able to simulate them inside a program. And after about an hour of trying to figure out how a rotary switch works in a high end PRS circuit I think I have my work cut out for me.

My basic feature set will include:

• Ability to build circuits via an intuitive drag and drop interface for components such as pickups, potentiometers, switches, and wire
• Support for all different types of pickups, pots, capacitors, and switches
• Ability to test, detect, and animate serial/parallel and in phase/out of phase circuits
• Ability to toggle switches and interact with the simulated circuit
• Ability to print the diagrams
• Ability to export the diagrams to popular image formats

If any of you other guitar geeks out there have any feature suggestions, please post them here.