brephophagist wrote:Phase 4 Hi-Flier in Portland with modified electronicsFor anyone interested, may I interject that my Phase 4 Hi-Flier is still hanging out, with original pickups (one non-functional), and an already-lower ”and PRF-negotiable ”price? I'm getting ready to toss it on eBay, and boy, ...

I think "Uptown Girl" has a really, really great outro.

John W. wrote:I heard they just got the rights for the Hiwatt name in the US very very recently. Lots of legal wrangling, but they finally did it."They" meaning Hi-Tone? Hi-Tone is located about 30 minutes south of me; once I learned that fact, my perennial dream of someday owning a Hiwatt became a ...

Damn evil educators won't teach four-corner cubic distortion. One-channel distortion singularity is a damn evil lie. You have been educated stupid.To bring this back (somewhat) on topic, a line selector can definitely open up whole new world of possibilities. I'm currently using an LS-2 to add a "mi...

I was reading an amusing post on YourDailyGerman.com about the verb œkacken (which is the colloquial equivalent of œcrap ). And it included the following:Abkacken expresses the idea of failing ¦ like ¦ really failing at some kind of activity. And it can be done by people as well as stuff. ¢ Thomas h...

Purging my home studio of some guitars I haven t touched in years. All were used at some point or another as my end-of-set rough-up guitar, and I ve hopefully priced them accordingly (and am entirely open to negotiation if I haven t).I ve attempted to ruthlessly photo-document every defect and demer...

Cross-post from the Gear Liquidation Thread:Purging my home studio of some guitars I haven t touched in years. All were used at some point or another as my end-of-set rough-up guitar, and I ve hopefully priced them accordingly (and am entirely open to negotiation if I haven t).I ve attempted to ruth...

lumpenprole wrote:MY TOAN GONNA RULEI'll come clean: after watching and listening to a couple of demos, I kind of want one.I do wonder what the expected service life of the xenon-filed tube would be. And it's not like that's going to be an easy-to-replace part. So I'm not sure how confident I'd feel...

Penny enjoying the warmth of tubes (literally).

When my old Tascam 4-track died a few years ago, I did some Googling, and saw this shop recommended more than once:http://njfactoryservice.comThey unfortunately were not able to fix my 4-track (dead capstan motor for which no factory-spec replacement was available) but they seemed to know what they ...