How to: Building a Whole-House Guitar Distribution System
By Julie Jacobson
Integrator uses standard multiroom audio system and some simple but clever engineering to distribute guitar riffs throughout the house. Planet Waves saves the day with MI connectors.

If you love playing guitar, why not be able to enjoy the music in every room of the house? That’s exactly what home systems integrator Joe Whitaker was after when he engineered a “whole-house guitar distribution” system in his St. Charles, Mo., home.

Whitaker got the idea while installing a home automation and whole-house A/V system for a client.



“I couldn’t help but notice the guitars placed all over the home,” he says. “In the basement were a couple of decent electrics; in the hearth room sat a really nice electric acoustic while another made by Peavey was located in the family room. There was even one in the home office.”

Naturally, the client did not have a full set of audio gear to accompany all of those guitars in all of those spaces.

“As I watched him lug amps, stacks, pedals and other bulky gear up and down the stairs from room to room,” says Whitaker, “I thought there must be a better way.”


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