Nate Dort wrote: Sun Jun 23, 2024 2:50 pm Gibson Minuteman GA-20RVT. DEAD!

Gonna perform some necromancy on this and see what's up.

Score!

Please to be seeing my follow-up post about this. Never came to fruition.

The seller did say he still had it, but couldn't get to UPS to ship it. I told him to let me know if he ever relisted it.

The pickguard I had sent to SendCutSend came in today. Ended up having to sand the flange that goes between the pickup rings but afterwards it fit pretty nice. It did need some polishing—even after anodizing it was pretty roughly finished—so when I went to Ace Hardware on my break I grabbed the screws, some polishing compound and a detail sander. Drilled in the holes for the pickguard screws and finished it.

Now that it looks Cool As Fuck, just need to finish the Rest of the Fucking Owl!

I'm buying a used vibraphone tomorrow for cheap. Pearl, motor may need repair.
I'm excited.
It will have to go in the living room aka the Lego room somehow, but I'll figure it out.

I got a little Sphere preamp that popped up used on Reverb. I thought it was a better deal than it was and jumped on it, but in retrospect it was just fair. If I can fill a little 6-space lunchbox with 4 of these and the two eqs I already have I’ll be happy. My goal is for a little mobile 4-6 channel setup I can use anywhere, mostly so I can get out of my house and show up at somebody else’s who has a piano, a better room setup for drums, living room duos, etc.

If the pre works out I can start selling stuff and start working towards that. I’ve been reading about a lot of Quad Eight/ Electrodyne / Sphere stuff and they seem fun. Just a different character from everything else w/o getting too esoteric.

Got a solid deal on a pair of Avenson Audio STO-2's. These are Stapes mic, improved upon something something. Just did a quick 'can haz signal' test, and they work, will have to give them a better listen later on. They're pretty tiny and included equally tiny zipper pouches, which I get a kick out of for some reason.

$799. Would have preferred $699, but it was local and everything works and sounds good. Haven't been able to play it much yet, hopefully I'll get some time later this week.

Frankie99 wrote: Tue Jul 23, 2024 6:36 am $799. Would have preferred $699, but it was local and everything works and sounds good. Haven't been able to play it much yet, hopefully I'll get some time later this week.

I was just talking with FM PEPPER! about how great that amp is. Fender cleans or some Plexi crunch, and a very useful master volume. Really well built too. I got one years ago off eBay and the seller just tossed it in a flimsy box. I looked out my front window and saw the mailman dragging the collapsed box with the amp on top of it, like a kid on a sled. Amp worked fine.

Yep - I wanted one for years but remember balking at anything $500 CAD or more because that price was 'crazy'. You've probably seen this, but if you haven't

yard barf wrote: Wed Jul 24, 2024 9:31 am I was just talking with FM PEPPER! about how great that amp is. Fender cleans or some Plexi crunch, and a very useful master volume. Really well built too. I got one years ago off eBay and the seller just tossed it in a flimsy box. I looked out my front window and saw the mailman dragging the collapsed box with the amp on top of it, like a kid on a sled. Amp worked fine.

Yeah I got to play a little last night, and clean sounds really interesting, full, dynamic, loud and clear....then a fuzz makes that thing roar. Can't wait for my balls charity fuzz to put through there.

Had it going for like 5 mins before the rest of the house was like "OK dude. That's enough of that."