Recent content by El Dunco

Unused, in original boxes. $100AUD, price negotiable. Assorted 12AX7s to include.

Got this real UK made Fane speaker for an absolute steal (under $50AUD). The guy who sold it to me lived on the street I grew up on. He included it in a modified bass cabinet with a removable back for closed or open. Does the David Gilmour clean to mild sounds very nicely and with a heavier...

I’m happy you noticed. You could probably be a professional reviewer like the reviewer for this global magazine (called Power Play magazine) who really seemed to pay attention to the details and topics at hand. I can’t wait to finish the remasters of our first two albums just so they sound as...

My recent health scare got me thinking about the music I would be leaving behind. While I still have so much to say and feel I still have much better work left in me. I listened back through my band’s early works to see if it holds up and it gave me an idea for everyone to share songs they’re...

It’s our drummers practice amps. The TB is surprisingly not too bad for a quick, easy jam setup but it’s terrible with the stock cabinet. He has another cabinet I swapped him for a 4x10 bass cab. It’s an early 2000s Behringer cabinet (that I rebadged with a motorcycle club badge so nobody has...

Studio A located in a rural compound. I will try and get a panoramic shot because it’s very difficult to capture the whole studio in one photo. It’s a bowling ball lane long, three lanes wide. Not pictured, full rack of outboard interfaces, compressors and tape machine. Studio B while...

I’d prefer something a little more hi-fi and sparkly in the neck of one of my guitars. I’ve loved every Jazz I’ve installed in customers’ guitars so I figured I’ll trade the ‘59 that’s already in there. Used is fine, so long as it works. The ‘59 has been in that guitar a while but it’s in the...

I’ve been selling off surplus tubes I have lying around and when pricing them, I noticed Tung Sol 12AX7 preamp tubes have ludicrously spiked in price, some attempting to be sold for 600 frackin’ dollars and above for a quartet (I can literally retube a whole amp for that.) While I was...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gkzevn2ew96wexv/HeavySevvy.mp3 I feel I’ve got a pretty good set of riffs here but as far as it being an actual song, I think the changes are either too many or just need a more coherent arrangement because I’m scratching my head as to where the vocals and/or solos...

Looks great on stage too. It’s the perfect combination of Fender and Gibson. 24.7” scale, but a thin neck, alder body and of course the whammy bar. Even the body shape is kind of like a strat and SG combined. They don’t make them anymore but it would be the perfect guitar for someone used...

Bantam’s time to shine again. This is the exacr one I have I mentioned in the cheap shredders thread. It’s a real maple top on alder, unlike the “foto-flame” style of the earlier models. Moisture would cause them to start coming away from the body, same issue the actual Fender Foto-Flame...

My absolute, ultimate favourite shred stick is the first proper guitar my Dad (RIP) bought me. It’s a Washburn BT-4QL Bantam. Wasn’t easy to find comprehensive information about, but I did eventually. The Bantam series would eventually become the Maverick. I read somewhere the change had to do...

My partner wrote this amazing, crunching metal song. But part way through it because a completely different style with the synths and drum machines. She wanted to try and separate them but I noticed they were still in the same key and tempo and that if I recorded the guitar parts right to glue...

Rehearse regularly, thoroughly and under the same circumstances you will be playing the show (don’t sit down if you won’t be on stools on stage, if you sing too, don’t omit your vocals from the rehearsal.) Work together to make sure your sounds are cooperating (each piece of the drum kit, bass...

I want another one, they were around a year or so, now they’re out of stock everywhere including reverb. I have a quartet of Tesla EL34s (technically worth twice that of the DF, but anything else you can throw in to make it a little more even will suffice.)