no, thats totally good advice. i am a total schmo when it comes to this sort of thing. i guess i have always surrounded myself with good drummers so i have never had to worry about it. learning about it myself feels very good and will help me in communicating what i see with a drummer.

I picked up a duffle bag full of drum hardware at a yard sale a few years back, and one of the items is this WFL bass drum muffler:Why and when are these used? Is this just old-timey gear or is there still a demand for mufflers?

Thanks Ben, great answer.

I'll give afiver to anyone who has the balls to buy this.

J. Burns wrote:I found my old Crate Blue Voodoo head at my mom's house. I took it home and fired it up and the two tubes on the left light and heat up and the two on the right don't. Tried it with a variety of 6L6 type tubes that are laying around the basement. It'd be fun to get this thing up and working again for old time's sake, but I don't want to sink a considerable amount of cash into it. Because it's a Crate, for fuck's sake. What do you guys think it wrong with it, and do you think it's worth fixing?If they're not even lighting up, and it stays with the socket and not the tubes, then it's something about the heaters.Any chance you could pull the chassis out of the head and take a close up of the tube sockets from the inside?Ben

I found my old Crate Blue Voodoo head at my mom's house. I took it home and fired it up and the two tubes on the left light and heat up and the two on the right don't. Tried it with a variety of 6L6 type tubes that are laying around the basement. It'd be fun to get this thing up and working again for old time's sake, but I don't want to sink a considerable amount of cash into it. Because it's a Crate, for fuck's sake. What do you guys think it wrong with it, and do you think it's worth fixing?

Trace the (AC) heater voltage from the PSU through to the sockets, and have a look around the sockets for any scorching too. It goes via some cables and sockets as shown in the 60W manual here:http://www.schematicheaven.com/newamps/ ... oo\_60w.pdfIf you suspect either of the two valves which didn't light up to be suspect, thern keep them to one side and use the two hopefully-known-good ones in the two centre socket positions for the moment.

owen wrote:so i have been having a really good time with this drum machine stuff. thanks for the advice by the way! my bass player is better at it and took his drum machine back so he could work on stuff. so now i am drum machine less...could you recommend some sort of computer program that i could use to keep up my chops of beat making?According to the PRF songwriting challenge thread, Hydrogen is the way to go.viewtopic.php?p=926404#p926404

so i have been having a really good time with this drum machine stuff. thanks for the advice by the way! my bass player is better at it and took his drum machine back so he could work on stuff. so now i am drum machine less...could you recommend some sort of computer program that i could use to keep up my chops of beat making?

VaticanShotglass wrote:Can't sleep so here's a question I'm just going to rip from a Gearpage thread that no one responded to as I have exactly the same concern:As we know the vintage fuzzes (or vintage circuits in new fuzzes) don't play nice with a buffer in front.My plan is to set up an overdrive pedal chain and a fuzz pedal chain.Can anyone speak to the buffer + fuzzes thing with the LS-2?The pedal (LS-2) has input and output jacks, and send/return jacks for loops A and B. The incoming signal is buffered, then split three ways: to the output mixer/buffer, to loop A send and loop B send. If left empty, the send/return jack in each loop are connected internally, to simply pass the signal along. Each loop has a level control, located after the return jack. The return signals then join the main bypass signal in the output mixer/buffer, and is then sent out through the output jack. https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index ... z.2037693/In my case I want to run a Rat in parallel with an EQD soundshank, which is a great buzzaround clone.So what's the question here? I have an LS-2 I use parallel like you describe. The LS-2 is buffered and affects a Fuzz Face/Rangemaster/etc the same way other buffered pedals do. The only difference here is that you have control over signal amount. If you don't like what a buffered pedal does before your fuzz pedal of choice now, you're not going to like what the LS-2 does to it without using some sort of impedance "correcting" device (maybe Radial) in the loop.A Rat sounds fine with a buffered pedal in front of it. Is the Soundshank the problem child here?