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I'm sure if you called Ben Verellen up and asked him to not do that, he wouldn't. japmn, I know what you mean, but I've just gotta object to these as not being real amps. You're buying an amp that is based on an another amp, sure. But it's being built today with today's resistors, semis, tubes by someone who is just a phone call away if you have mods/problems/whatever that you'd like to discuss. Full disclosure: I make no money when Verellen sells an amp but I want like hell for them to be super successful.= JustinEdit because I spelled resistor wrong. What the hell.

Fender unless you happen to come across the Yamaha T50.

If he is using new components in the amps...... well since nothing in music ever is improved upon from its first incarnation. Than the componets themselves are not as good as the ones made before the present day in the 50's & 60's. A old resistor or capasitor is capable of conducting 10,000 times the musical conductivity (this is a different mesurement than it's electrical properties) of modern ones. I know this is true because I read it on Gear Sluts and it was repeated at Harmoney Central and Gear Pages too.

endofanera wrote:bleh. wrote:man, i really don't get this. who hates stained wood?Seriously, what's wrong with you people?you're right. to make this bass truly beautiful, we just need to cover it in tolex.

bleh. wrote:you're right. to make this bass truly beautiful, we just need to cover it in tolex.It couldn't hurt.

How many Danzigs to a Fonzie? And how does all of this translate into Geezers?

ezweave wrote:In light of recent events, the Office of Weights and Measures can no longer recommend the use of Danzigs in measurements. At last check, it was approximately 2.0 X 10^-9 Fonzies = 1 Danzig, making Danzigs nigh worthless.I assume this recommendation marked the defacto end of that smallest of all measures the Nano-Danzig?

In light of recent events, the Office of Weights and Measures can no longer recommend the use of Danzigs in measurements. At last check, it was approximately 2.0 X 10^-9 Fonzies = 1 Danzig, making Danzigs nigh worthless. Geezers are really more of an English measure (Imperial System).

The nano Danzig, which had been the reigning Danzig unit, is now only used in historical context. If you see it in a text book, just remember that there was a time before Glenn Anzalone complained about the arctic chill of sixty degree weather and demanded sacrifices of chicken soup. So, in context, a nano-Danzig was much more valuable (but not as valuable as it had been say twenty five years ago, before the nano-Danzig actually existed).

Big John wrote:If he is using new components in the amps...... well since nothing in music ever is improved upon from its first incarnation. Than the componets themselves are not as good as the ones made before the present day in the 50's & 60's. A old resistor or capasitor is capable of conducting 10,000 times the musical conductivity (this is a different mesurement than it's electrical properties) of modern ones. I know this is true because I read it on Gear Sluts and it was repeated at Harmoney Central and Gear Pages too.It's really two units of measure we're talking about: street credits (measured in Fonzies) and soul (measured in JBs or James Browns). It's a relationship that can be expressed as the following formula:Code: Select all (t2 - t1)/50 x c = s Where t2 is the current year, t1 is the year the product was built, and the difference between the two , divided by fifty (the window for coolness) multiplied by c, which is the street credits in Fonzies, resulting in s, which is "soul" in James Browns.For example, a 1964 blackface Princeton (which has at least 3 Fonzies, according to the US department of weights and measures) in use today: Code: Select all(2012 - 1964)/50 x 3 = 48/50 x 38 = 2.88 James Browns or 2.88 JBsIn contrast with, say a 2004 Marshall Mode 4 head (which has a 0.3 Fonzie value):Code: Select all(2012 - 2004)/50 * .3 = 8/50 * .3 = 0.16 *0.3 = 0.048 JBsThis can be calculated per component, if you wish. As you can see, a Mode 4 head is just not cool by this standard.