Recent content by The Golden Boy

OR-80. One seriously, loud and incredibly awe inspiring machine. Ouch.

I just spent the past hour or so working out on my Brother In Law's AC-30. That awesome chime and sparkle using the "brilliant" channel and the "cut" knob all the way off... Of course, cranked between 5 and 10. I don't think I'm going to hear properly for a week.

Anyone ever try that out? From my understanding, the original bridge pickups for the EB-3 and EB-2D were the mini-humbucker made to replace the Epiphone "New York" pickpup- and my understanding is that the only modification to the pickup was to change it from 6 pole pieces to 4- nothing in the...

For those of you with the pre-79 Marshalls, you know that the impedance selector is a little knob that you remove and insert to select your impedance. I know a lot of people have had trouble with them falling out or getting lost. Over the course of the past 20 years with the Marshalls I've...

A couple of weeks ago I supplied the bass cab for the backline of a show. Friday nite I played out, and was the first time I used my cab since the show I had used it for the communal backline bass cab. One of the speakers is blown. Crap. For the show, I just put duck tape over the grille and ran...

My name is Dave I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you. Yes, I think you've seen me before. (Startin' off good- Terrence Trent Darby and Suzane Vega...) Thanks to Jake for the nomination- For this fun filled, action packed, seat soakin' installation of The Well, you get The...

It's the Seymour Duncan Forum- most of us have Duncans in our instruments- but who's running some of the old Duncan amps or cabs?

Does anyone make a 40-ish watt 4x 6v6 head?

Dig my new amp. Yeah, it needs a bit of work. New handles, a fuse cap, an indicator light, a transformer mounting bracket, 4 12ax7s, 12 6L6s, the fan installed, the sides and back installed... But it's gonna be awesome!!! Let me figure out image sizes on this imageshack thing...

What would be the most "sterile," "transparent," "not warm," "hi-fi," sounding 12ax7s around? I'm not concerned about NOS or anything- I'm thinking about getting a very "immediate," Solid State sort of sound. I've got a Mesa Boogie Bass 400+ that needs tubes. I really like the SS bass amp...

I got my first bass, a 71-ish Gibson EB-0, around 1985. It played, and still feels absolutely wonderful. But... It sounded like poop. It looked cool, but it sounded like poop. I wanted a "Fender" sound, and the EB-0 isn't meant to do that, but I didn't know that. Me, being the 16 year...

A buddy and I went to Goodwill today. I was looking for hideous pants. He was looking for "stuff." I went to the "Hideous Used Pants" section he went to the "Completely Obsolete Home Electronics" section. After looking through 900 pairs of pants not quite offensive to my sensibilities, I go...

What is your #1 guitar? How long have you had it, and how long has it been your #1? My #1 is a 2001 R8. I got it in early Feb of 2001, and it assumed duties as #1 guitar sometime in 2002. The feel of this guitar is just awesome- the weight, neck and overall playability just make this guitar...

How long have you had your #1 amp? How long has it been your #1 amp and why? I got my #1 in Spring of 1993 and it's stayed my #1 since that time. It's a 1978 50w MV Marshall (with 6550s), and it does everything that I want it to do.

I started playing bass with a Rolling Stones "tribute" band. My sound is a pretty bright, ringy sound, and that doesn't really go with the Stones' thing. But the idea is to kind of sound like the Stones, so I pulled my Thunderbird out of semi-retirement and started using that. I actually...