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- Tue May 21, 2024 10:37 am
- Forum: Amp Talk
- Topic: Crate Amps & C.C. DeVille
- Replies: 5
- Views: 81
Re: Crate Amps & C.C. DeVille
1. Your closing statement helps me better understand your mad electronics skillz. 2. To what do you attribute, then, the Marshal user perception? 1.) Thank you for the compliment. Pretty much from 1985 to 2000, I was program management & finance aerospace guy by day, repairman / session player ...
- Mon May 20, 2024 10:59 am
- Forum: Amp Talk
- Topic: Crate Amps & C.C. DeVille
- Replies: 5
- Views: 81
Crate Amps & C.C. DeVille
I saw an interview with the guitarist from Warrant (80's hair band) and then followed up with and interview with Poison's (another hairband) CC. DeVille and sure enough, he is perceived to be a Marshall user, but primarily uses solid state Crate amplifiers. Having spent a decade or two being a STL M...
- Sun May 19, 2024 2:24 pm
- Forum: The Water Cooler
- Topic: Would you need more info?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 87
Re: Would you need more info?
I have literally seen hundreds, if not thousands of resumes over 35 years and you have a great start. Some recommendations: - Trim down the bullet points, put them on a side check list for yourself and make sure those attributes stand out in your experience descriptions. Stay clear of descriptors wi...
- Sat May 18, 2024 10:38 am
- Forum: Projects You're Working On
- Topic: Whats on your work bench?
- Replies: 836
- Views: 57404
Re: Whats on your work bench?
Very cool conversion and that is a gargantuan variable load resistor! What in the world did that come out of? [/quote] Flea market at the old drive in movie theater . Garden drive-in, Hunlock creek, next to the Susquehanna river, RT 29. Seller had a lot of electronic stuff they had no idea what it ...
- Fri May 17, 2024 11:07 am
- Forum: Projects You're Working On
- Topic: Whats on your work bench?
- Replies: 836
- Views: 57404
Re: Whats on your work bench?
2 amp pcb eyelet boards from Hoffmans EL34 world. First a tweed princeton 5F2a, second a similar style amp with a el84 output and slightly different circuitry, Kalamazoo model 1. 2 inputs but join-able. They should sound close but i am hoping different enough to make a nice full sound. Going to be ...
- Thu May 16, 2024 11:16 am
- Forum: New Guitar Day
- Topic: NGD: Agile Harm 1
- Replies: 5
- Views: 201
Re: NGD: Agile Harm 1
HNGD!
Harm 1's are IMHO, Rondo's GOAT. No rationale needed for having a spare variant. I do like the knobs on your original, as i never bonded with the Fender Tele types and also replaced them on mine.
Harm 1's are IMHO, Rondo's GOAT. No rationale needed for having a spare variant. I do like the knobs on your original, as i never bonded with the Fender Tele types and also replaced them on mine.
- Thu May 16, 2024 10:56 am
- Forum: The Water Cooler
- Topic: Robben Ford / Pedal Show w/Dumble
- Replies: 13
- Views: 420
Re: Robben Ford / Pedal Show w/Dumble
One of the times I saw Robben live, he was playing a red knob Twin! I've repaired a few Evil Twins and their head counter part, the red-knob Showmans. Riveria designed. Most underrated and affordable amps out there. The only down side is their complicated switching jacks got brittle and were at one...
- Thu May 16, 2024 10:53 am
- Forum: The Water Cooler
- Topic: Robben Ford / Pedal Show w/Dumble
- Replies: 13
- Views: 420
Re: Robben Ford / Pedal Show w/Dumble
FWIW, I have heard Robben play through what I assume was a rented backline twice, both standard Fenders, and both time's he sounded fantastic. Like Robben, if not even better than normal. And if you haven't heard him play acoustic, well... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_eKxaxHc6c Robben is truly...
- Wed May 15, 2024 3:15 pm
- Forum: The Water Cooler
- Topic: Robben Ford / Pedal Show w/Dumble
- Replies: 13
- Views: 420
Re: Robben Ford / Pedal Show w/Dumble
Got to watch it and it was a good video. IMHO, the takeaway was player 'feel' in the room. Like Tonray's Ghost said, after YouTube processing, it sounded like a nice Fender BF when clean and like you stomped on a Big Muff Ram's Head with the gain at 10 o'clock when overdriven. I've copied some of th...
- Tue May 14, 2024 10:24 am
- Forum: The Water Cooler
- Topic: Robben Ford / Pedal Show w/Dumble
- Replies: 13
- Views: 420
Re: Robben Ford / Pedal Show w/Dumble
I want to watch this episode, but haven't' found the time to devote over an hour. TPS videos can tend to be too long.
- Tue May 14, 2024 10:22 am
- Forum: Guitar Talk
- Topic: First Foray into Multiscale (Second into headless)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 153
Re: First Foray into Multiscale (Second into headless)
I think I would be interested in hearing / learning of the sonic differences of a multi-scale length guitar. That said, I could never see such a thing in regular rotation for my style of playing.
- Fri May 10, 2024 11:38 am
- Forum: Agile/SX
- Topic: Incoming Agiles
- Replies: 9
- Views: 365
Re: Incoming Agiles
Nice score!
Can't go wrong with a Harm1. is that a Jazzmaster type baritone?
Can't go wrong with a Harm1. is that a Jazzmaster type baritone?
- Thu May 09, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: Tech Discussion
- Topic: Tech Question for Amp Gurus
- Replies: 8
- Views: 359
Re: Tech Question for Amp Gurus
I'm not close to being a guru, just used a lot of gear over decades, so take with a lump of salt... You're not likely going to get a very good line level match between a line out and an effects return, but you're also not going to blow anything up. If you can control the level of the line out from ...
- Tue May 07, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: The Water Cooler
- Topic: Jump !
- Replies: 7
- Views: 249
Re: Jump !
Wasn't it an insurance payout, where they did not want the guitars resurfacing on the market?tonebender wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 8:52 am I just read the back story, or what is suppose to be the truth, about why Gibson destroyed all those guitars. Interesting to say the least.
- Tue May 07, 2024 10:55 am
- Forum: Guitar Talk
- Topic: NGBD - Mustang
- Replies: 8
- Views: 415
Re: NGBD - Mustang
Happy NGBD!
Looks cool and great color!
Try a drop of machine oil or teflon tuner lube on the creaky part of the string shaft. Then put on an old set of strings and drive your family crazy by working the vibrato bar while you watch TV. Sometimes these glitches wear themselves in.
Looks cool and great color!
Try a drop of machine oil or teflon tuner lube on the creaky part of the string shaft. Then put on an old set of strings and drive your family crazy by working the vibrato bar while you watch TV. Sometimes these glitches wear themselves in.
- Sun May 05, 2024 5:38 pm
- Forum: Projects You're Working On
- Topic: Whats on your work bench?
- Replies: 836
- Views: 57404
Re: Whats on your work bench?
An amplifier that 'got away' from me, was a Marshall small-head 2553 Silver Jubilee 50w. Well, I decided to build my own starting with an Alexander Jubilee clone PCB (which is really just a modified Guv'nor pedal). My mods include 50w / 100w mode (like the real amp) with a bi-color LED to indicate o...
- Fri May 03, 2024 10:51 am
- Forum: The Water Cooler
- Topic: Sam Ash To Shutdown Remaining Stores
- Replies: 11
- Views: 394
Re: Sam Ash To Shutdown Remaining Stores
I bought my first PRS (1992 pre-factory CE24 with HSC, below) from Sam Ash in Cherry Hill, NJ. I remember the tag being $1,100 and the store manager exempting sales tax by logging in the guitar as a mail order since I was from PA at the time. The price was about $200 lower that other stores and the ...
- Fri May 03, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: Tube Amps
- Topic: Marshall Origins
- Replies: 11
- Views: 586
Re: Marshall Origins
I tried a few origins, one which @golem had and they are not my cup of tea. Good amps mind you, but having worked on plexis and steel-fronts, the genuine sound includes punishing the speakers.
The second Headfirst mod sounded better, IMHO, than a stock Origin.
The second Headfirst mod sounded better, IMHO, than a stock Origin.
- Fri May 03, 2024 10:36 am
- Forum: New Guitar Day
- Topic: NGD: Chapman
- Replies: 9
- Views: 330
Re: NGD: Chapman
HNGD!
- Thu May 02, 2024 9:56 am
- Forum: Guitar Talk
- Topic: Trade Drama Got me confused and frustrated
- Replies: 17
- Views: 725
Re: Trade Drama Got me confused and frustrated
Update: He left me negative feedback on The Gear Page yesterday at 4:30 PM. It's slightly less than 3 months since the transaction. He has my cell phone number and never called me about it or texted me an update so I can only assume the shop probably got back to him yesterday and told him something...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 10:54 am
- Forum: The Water Cooler
- Topic: New GC direction
- Replies: 28
- Views: 768
Re: New GC direction
BatUtilityBelt "Wow, I disagree with almost everything GC's new CEO has to say." - I agree. mozz "Higher profit margins is all he is looking for." - Also agree. tlarson58 "It's all in volume, I'd guess. It seems as if they're sacrificing volume for bigger margins." - Y...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:10 am
- Forum: The Water Cooler
- Topic: New Toy en-route!!! :D
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1291
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:38 am
- Forum: The Water Cooler
- Topic: Tastes Like Chicken?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 316
Re: Tastes Like Chicken?
By the way, how are you going to repair the hole? I am leaning towards the JB Weld 8217 method, since the surrounding steel is rust free and the hole is literally pin sized. I'd be afraid to try a screw, as I do not know the tank's steel composition. If the screw I use was a dissimilar metal, it wo...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:41 pm
- Forum: The Water Cooler
- Topic: Tastes Like Chicken?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 316
Tastes Like Chicken?
You can't make this stuff up. I have an expensive 10500-watt back-up generator for when the power goes out (note that my power has not gone out long enough to use it in ten years). The gas tank sprung a leak and I was expecting to find that it rusted. When I took it apart to begin the repair or repl...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:34 pm
- Forum: Guitar Talk
- Topic: Whats your' latest gear acquisition?
- Replies: 966
- Views: 76526
Re: Whats your' latest gear acquisition?
I feel like I'm going to explain it poorly, but Mike had a side project that he thought called for a more Gretsch like guitar. He bought this and a Richard Fortus, who I think he knows, signature Gretsch. I'm not surprised to hear that he prefers the Gretsch as it has higher output pickups I was at...