Recent content by Ascension

This one will join the "herd". If finished.

For many years, I have had a Washburn unfinished body and neck from the Chicago Custom Shop setting in a case in the closet. They are most definitely not normal production pieces and the best we can figure out working with a couple ex employees from there, the body is one of the unfinished...

Had a power tube short during an event in my First gen PRS Archon. The amp never quit and only noticed slight drop in volume and headroom. Didn't even blow a fuse! Took out one of the screen resistors on the tube socket, but finished the event without incident and still sounded good. That was...

Was my father on laws guitar and I had never seen it untill yesterday. Need to know exactly what it is and value. I know the electrics but not the acoustics from that Era. Will upload photos.

Stumbled on a demo for these and was intrigued with the tones I heard, so I ordered one. It may well replace my Strymon Blue Sky on my Church board, it's so good! The absolute best inexpensive Reverb I have found anywhere, and being built in China, these may not be available for long at this...

We are doing major work at my Church this week so I have all my gear here. Have been using a couple old boards with wall warts to power them but had a couple new boards and bricks so have been busy. First off my small gig grab and go board. Picked up a pedal Train board and a one spot brick that...

I'm about to build a new board for church. I grabbed one of the large Fender aluminum boards off Reverb when a guy threw it up for $80. I'm running one of the Voodoo Labs on one board and a pedal power pro on another. The fender is set up to mount their Engine room power supply, so? I need high...

Picked up the Super Clean to solve the issue with the loop on my Zinky Blue Velvet. Bruce designed the loop for line level rack gear, so if you run a pedal board through the loop with a long cable run, it's like putting a blanket on the amp. I hoped the boost plus the buffer and the EQ dip...

Have several EL 84 amps that have been my go to grab and go rigs but got really sick of the reliability issue with the 84's. Had one suddenly red plate a power tube just a month or so again and always carry a couple extra EL 84's when I'm gigging out with these amps, in particular the Mesa EL 84...

I absolutely love my Zinky Blue Velvet combo but don't use it as much as I would like. The reason is Bruce designed those amps to run rack effects at line level, so the loop sucks. If you run any cable run to and from the amp, it absolutely kills the tone. Sounds like you drop a blanket over the...

My Church just bought one, and I am curious what IR's folks are running? Will be running it with my PRS Custom 50 head.

Have a Strymon Blue Sky on one board and an Oceans 11 on another. Very useful combo, running clean with electric in worship where I am the only guitar player. Having at least 2 settings that are foot switchable is also a plus. What else would you guys recommend checking out?

Pulled it apart, cleaned the controls and jacks, then dumpers the JJ tubes. Really woke the amp up! The cleans are amazing on this amp, but the crunch side on the Subway was better. Overall however, I really like the amp now that I have it tweaked a little to where I like it. This is with my...

A very Clean Mesa F30 combo showed up at a friends shop a few days ago. I had an F 30 Short head for a while and really loved in particular the cleans. I traded my Subway Rocket for the little F 30. Still sorting the F30 out as it has been setting somewhere unplayed for a while, so will get the...

Just curious what others here are running. For me, I own 2 of the CAB US PRS 50 watt heads, a 2017 Custom 50 and a first gen Archon 50 head. A OG stock Jet City JCA 22H head. A Zinky Blue Velvet 25 watt 1/12 combo. And lastly, a Mesa Boogie 20 watt Subway Rocket 1/10 combo. I'm running a PRS...