I am of the opinion that if a piece of gear does not suit you needs from a functional standpoint, then you should get rid of it. You aren't collecting art, its there to amplify your guitar and if it isn't doing it in a way that you like, then get rid of it and buy something that makes you happy.

Yeah man, you spent the time restoring an awesome amp, don't cheap out on the speaker. For less than $200 you can get pretty much any Weber speaker you want. Most of the come in under $150. They are awesome. I suggest an Alnico model. You'll have forgotten all about the extra 50 bux you spent by the...

I had a Hill that someone gave to me, but it was missing the cord the connected the power supply to the board. I tried to rig up my own cord and accidentally wired it backwards, I heard something start to fry and that was it. I gave it to a friend and he got it fixed. Now It works perfectly.. I wish...

I just got done building my own speaker cabinet. It was my first cabinet and it sounds great. If you are building an open back cabinet, you can pretty much choose whatever dimensions you want, it doesn't seem to affect the tone that much from my experience. I got the wood from Home Depot. I used sel...

ps... A great Chicago drummer who is really choosy about his cymbal placement is Nate Kinsella. He treats playing cymbals like its supposed to be treated I think.

Can you name an album where super loud cymbals sounded good? Out To Lunch. I was just listening to this and remembered this thread. Cymbals are pretty damn loud and I think it's a fantastic sounding record. Of course string bass + drums + vibes + trumpet + winds is something of a whole different ba...

If you want to spend a lot of money for something boo teek, try Maken Music. If you want to get ripped off, try Chicago Music Exchange. If you want to buy something used or vintage that looks cool but may have some weird mod to it, goto Midwest Buy and Sell.

Yeah I figured out how to wire them in series using 6pdt switch. 1st position just neck, 2nd- pickups in series, 3rd just bridge. Works fine except when you throw the tone controls into the recipe. I need to figure that out.. But over all the tone is actually pretty cool in series and about 2-3db lo...

I just got a 1967 Gretsch Anniversary. Its a great guitar but the pickups are the really low output single coil 'hilotrons'. I am not ready to replace them with the higher output 'Filtertrons' just yet, but I am considering a few wiring modifications of the wiring to help things a bit. This stuff ca...

Those jazzmasters look ok for the price, the best thing though is that after a few months you'll be able to find on used for around 500 bux which be a great deal IMO. One thing that's curios to me is why it took Fender so long to realize that Jaguar and Jazzmaster bridges suck... Replacing with with...