Hahaha our house is already about a 7.25 degree angle off level! I don't think there's an actual right angle anywhere in here.

MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Wed Oct 05, 2022 10:41 am Hahaha our house is already about a 7.25 degree angle off level! I don't think there's an actual right angle anywhere in here.

Hey man, Leo just built the house with whatever he had available at the time

MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Wed Oct 05, 2022 9:16 am GAH Surf Green too? I"m going to need all 3.
There's just something about those colors that does me in. They all look good with a white pickguard, and generally I think those are the death of cool on most guitars, both my strat and tele got way cooler when I swapped out the stock white pickguards.

Sorry to raise your hopes but there's no Sonic Blue in the range. The Surf Green looks good tho. Both that and the pink have mint green pickguards, which I don't much like when it's pretend-aging, but as part of the pastel look it's pretty lovely.
Other options are orangey butterscotch (no thanks), yellowed white with tort, a mahogany one which is striking, as well as a Dakota Red with a wide-range bucker in the neck position. Latter two have dark fretboards, laurel maybe?

Yeah I know there's no Sonic Blue, I'm just daydreaming. They had a few of these at my local GC, the orangey butterscotch one looks gross in person, like really bad. The off-white/tortoise one looks killer. A tortoise pickguard looks good on pretty much anything IMO.

Picked up a broken Verellen Meatsmoke preamp pedal on ebay. Burned up resistors in the power supply.
I emailed Ben asking about schematics or a bare replacement PCB, but he just said “send it back and I’ll fix it.” Forgot that he always had a lifetime warranty on his stuff. Was actually kinda looking forward to having another project to work on, but oh well.

Altec transformers. Yes, more.

Nate Dort wrote: Wed Oct 05, 2022 8:41 pm Picked up a broken Verellen Meatsmoke preamp pedal on ebay. Burned up resistors in the power supply.

I emailed Ben asking about schematics or a bare replacement PCB, but he just said “send it back and I’ll fix it.” Forgot that he always had a lifetime warranty on his stuff. Was actually kinda looking forward to having another project to work on, but oh well.

Ben has always been a class act and it was super disappointing when the amp company closed down. His new bar sounds pretty amazing though, next time I'm in the PNW I intend to check it out.

Mickey242 wrote: Fri Oct 07, 2022 1:12 am Altec transformers. Yes, more.

What are you up to with these?? : )

Bought a pair of bw 805s with an adcom amp. Amazing combo

Nate Dort wrote: Wed Oct 05, 2022 8:41 pm Picked up a broken Verellen Meatsmoke preamp pedal on ebay. Burned up resistors in the power supply.

I emailed Ben asking about schematics or a bare replacement PCB, but he just said “send it back and I’ll fix it.” Forgot that he always had a lifetime warranty on his stuff. Was actually kinda looking forward to having another project to work on, but oh well.

The seller didn't realise this was an option? Did you get it for quite cheap?
Either way, score.