In response to Fred's claim to a rock solid reputation, I offer the following: I once bought a seemingly nice hollow body guitar from Fred's old store on Chicago Ave for $650, only to discover the next day that there were major problems with it. A couple of days later I bumped into him at a local ta...

Intern_8033 wrote:is that a great fucking photo

It would have been okay if the photographer hadn't sacrificed the last few holes in the grill of the mic for the sake of some blurry shit in the background.

E.

you could blow your power amp and/or your speakers if you crank your gain all the way up. Depending on the source signal, a preamplifier may be able to cause such extreme clipping that your power amp ends up sending your speakers a signal more closely resembling a square wave. Speakers don't like s...

Dan,

You don't want that thing. Throw it away.

Better yet, drop it off at my shop so it can be safely disposed of.

-E.

"Transformerless" is a way for microphone companies to replace an expensive transformer with a couple of 20¢ transistors and charge you more money for the new "feature", as if transformers were bad for audio. I see the term "transformerless" as being synonymous with "cheaper to manufacture -- not n...

i must disagree. he did indeed spell bitchen properly. Perhaps we should turn to the mainstream for an answer. Google reports: http://www.electronaut.info/public/bitchen.jpg versus http://www.electronaut.info/public/bitchin.jpg But google offers a definition for "bitchen". So who wins?

(?spelling?) Funny that the word you thought you misspelled was one of the few words you actually spelled right. Since you asked, here are some others you missed: - bitchin' - almost - sounds - knew - etc. - which - that's - you're - realize I'll ignore "kinda", since that one's close to achieving ...

As a very general rule, you are usually safe after about an hour of the amplifier being switched off. This may be true, but it's probably a bad thing to tell someone who is asking how to deal with high voltage electronics. Not all amps have bleeder resistors, and the ones that don't can hold the ch...

Not cheap but great:

Lundahl LL2911, built specifically for ribbon mics. Up to 1:37.

$60 from here.

(Nitpick alert) If you're going to go to the trouble of adding a three-prong plug, you should rewire the switch and fuse wiring so both are in series with the HOT wire. it avoids the issue of soldering a wire to your chassis, which is somehow different from normal soldering or something, or so i've ...