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Peak is the real shit. I have a $25 unit but you have to put the leads into a slot, so testing small devices is a pain, involving old resistors leads sticking out and wrangling them to contact the cap leads.

Now I’ve seen everything :)) Thanks Dave👍

Another great interview from RB. His channels are stellar.

Here's mine

Always searching for the rainbow's end.

I don't know. USA looks kinda strange. ( the one on the right is the only font I know thru the years) If anyone has the same font on USA as the one on the left, I'd really like to look. Just want to learn something I didn't know before...or did I?

I would have to say it was more Yacht Rock than metal. It was mainly 40-50 year Olds. They wanted their generations music. So that's what we played. I Scorpions may have been ok tho. We did some Skid Row and that went over well....

Hi AndI, I’ve seen your posts on that forum - nice guitars! I just logged in after the site went wrong for what seemed like ages. I’ll drop a line to them and see if they can do something. However, like here - I’m also a nobody on that forum! Best wishes, Ben.

No, I have had a Fluke 73 III that doesn't do capacitance. If the Peak actually does 'in circuit' testing, which I take to mean you don't have to remove the capacitor to test it, and other testers would require removal, - that feature would be really useful.

...or a partial refinish.

Stupid question, but do you have a multimeter with this symbol on it?

Quite a deal there!

looking at testers, something someone with "limited electronics skills" could find useful. This Peak Atlas ESR70 looks really neat, and it's claimed that it can do 'in circuit' capacitor testing. What do you all think? better options? https://www.amazon.com/s?k=peak+atlas+esr70+gold+esr+meter&hvadid=792662741947&hvdev=c&hvexpln=67&hvlocphy=9190511&hvnetw=g&hvocijid=914154349004782606--&hvqmt=e&hvrand=914154349004782606&hvtargid=kwd-2385103277715&hydadcr=13123_13767904&mcid=7bf59be7e7303251a714f3661e22a778&tag=googhydr-20&ref=pd_sl_1h3zjrk58p_e_p67

Getting great tones without the heavy lifting is what I have gone to for a bit now. Not really anyone I need to impress with a "stack". (Side note...I built a 1 x 8 cab with a 100 watt speaker that stood up admirably to an Orange half stack live, but that is another story). I have put together a setup with the Imperial preamp as a base. Royalist preamp in the bypass. So, more or less F type Blackface and Tweed, plus multiple M type options on call. For those that think the Royalist has insufficient gain, a boost in front works wonders. I happen to like the Chase Bliss Brothers AM (sort of a modern King of Tone without the time and expense to run down) for that. Add FX in the preamp loop, if desired. I do NOT have experience with the Fryette and am sure it is great. But what I have tried work well for me as pedalboard mounted power amps. (I want stereo and portability). The Duncan stereo works well, but the one I like better is the Thermion Zero (which can be redundant with the F type preamp built in, but can be bypassed or used for a separate preset). And if you want to get by for a lot less, Carvin makes a stereo power amp for $159 that I find very usable.....Downside is that it is small BUT needs the (included) brick of a power supply. Not bad if you can mount it under the board. Gig bag, pedalboard and small-ish stereo cab......In and out in one easy trip. And as much volume as I ever need.

I remember reading, WAY back when, that KISS started out in the clubs with a wall of empty 4x12 cabinets for "the look". Maybe some of them had lights instead of speakers.

Rational, responsible thinking has no place in this hobby.

Well damn, and here I was just saying I didn't need more guitars.

That was almost tempting to me at 4:45 this morning. Then I figured it would sit in the stack of unplayed Hamers I already have.

Well they sure confused my young mind and way back when, my first "real" amp was a Peavey Classic 50 with a tremolo. Like you, I wanted all the distortion I could get back then and I was like, "What the hell is this stuttering tremolo thing?" and thought it worthless. I traded it back in for one that had a phase shifter which I found I could use for the style of music I was after. This was around '77 when I was listening to KISS Alive! and the Alice Cooper live album with Dick Wagner on guitar. Man, what a killer tone he had. If only I had known he was using a Wah.

👍 Thanks a lot!!! I still have the private home adress of the Admin (Tony aka menace) from sending a neckplate for a donation project some time ago, my user nickname over there is 88pcII Andi

As smart as Leo Fender was, his company sure did have an issue with understanding what "vibrato" and what "tremolo" meant, haha.

To be fair, I also read your post at 4:45 this morning with the morning news in the background so I didn't quite get what vibe you meant as in, "I get your vibe, man." Also, back when Fender introduced the tube driven tremolo they did call it Vibrato. And that circuit was correctly named. The future circuits were also called Vibrato when in fact, they are more tremolo. The Vibrato is actually a change in pitch where tremolo is a change in volume. I went down that rabbit hole for a few weeks recently when I thought I wanted another amp. Thankfully I remembered the "Tremolo" on the Tri-Tube TKI before I made that mistake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6dGY31laBY

Not going to find one cheaper.