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Marshall Origin 20H. Reminds me of a JTM45 I played years ago. Takes pedals very very well, which matters a lot to me. Completes the asymmetrical wall of stupidity that rightfully makes my wife sigh.

Dr Tony Balls wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2024 9:18 am Cheapo amazon two-blade rotary coax stripping tool.......where have you been all my life??

Right?

I just got a Schiit Magni headphone amp. Cheap, very good quality. If you’re in the market for a single channel HP amp, thumbs up.

Great condition YBA-1 for a price too good I couldn't pass it up - I had a '68 that I sold when I moved from ontario to san diego, and felt a hole where a traynor once was. Double duty as bass amp that is juuuuuuust shy of being enough for a loud band, but fine anywhere there's decent sound, known quantity yadda yadda they're great.

TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2024 12:18 pm Great condition YBA-1

I love these on bass! Highly underrated. Mine was stolen years ago. I had a Traynor-sized hole in my heart that I eventually replaced with a YBA3, but I would take any of them

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TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2024 12:18 pm Great condition YBA-1

I love these on bass! Highly underrated. Mine was stolen years ago. I had a Traynor-sized hole in my heart that I eventually replaced with a YBA3, but I would take any of them

Always wanted a yba3 and I should really just build a bass amp, but old giant transformers are too cool

Here's excellent band Lemuria that always sounds good with YBA-1 on bass. Bonus points for Sheena rocking occasionally a Garnet BTO (not here) and/or mig50

Just bought a MOTU Monitor 8 IO to add to my stupid basement studio. Now I have a 16a taking mic preamps and outs to the console, a MOTU Ultralite in keyboard land sending keys, vocals and drum machines in over AVB, and all of the inputs flowing into the Monitor 8 via AVB for 6 stereo phones mixes at zero latency. I have 4 aux sends from the console going into the analogs of the Monitor 8 so I can also send cue mixes from the console into the thing. The Cue buss of the Monitor 8 comes back to an extra input of my monitor controller so I can listen to that and solo phones mixes on my mains or in a set of cans. It is so absurdly overbuilt and excessive for a studio of about 250 square feet of space. I love it.

I was at a pedal swap the other weekend and went home with a random old Zoom half-rack space multi-effects unit with the intent of using it for my weird Bastl Kastle synth trio noise rig to have some extra effects—mostly for reverb but also for making some other weird bleep-bloop sounds. It didn’t come with the power supply (9v positive center) so I ordered one from Amazon that came today.

I saw a couple articles this week about David Gilmour still using a Zoom processor for a number of decades. I got around to actually reading one past the headline and turns out… the one I got last weekend was the same one. The Zoom 9030.

I’ve spent about a half hour or so fooling around with it on guitar and headphones. I felt like I was 15 years old again with my Digitech RP100.

It’s a digital multi-effects unit from the early 90s, so no one’s mistaking this for an Axe-FX or Helix anytime soon. Nevertheless it’s definitely charming. Editing patches is relatively easy thanks to a bank of four knobs for changing parameters per effect block. Going through the factory patches is always fun, even soaked in gobs of delay and chorus. There’s some quirks—it’s a coin flip on if the Harmonizer will play the right note, the strange “BOMB” effect you can also hear on the MultiStomp is on here, and there seems to be an emphasis on more “modern” effects—no tape-style or analog echo, no pitch vibrato etc—very much grabbing for the cutting edge. The Distortion and Amp modules are separated with like 3-4 options each, all of which can achieve Blistering Gobs of Questionable Tone. With Distortion on and Amp off you can absolutely get No Cab Sim dirty can of bees guitar sounds if you so desired.

Anyway, this was a neat pickup. Unless the price Bad Monkeys to an absurd height (I won’t hold my breath) I’ll probably be keeping it around for, as I intended, Making Of The Bleep-Bloop or for guitar playing at home.

defendyachtrock wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2024 10:41 pm The Zoom 9030.

Also used on a couple of NIN albums.

There's a SoS review here.