soli'd

I feel like Bubbles should've played Peart.

Here's the ebony version listed in Woodstock, GA. Local pickup available in New Jersey! https://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/msg/d/lebanon-1987-hamer-firebird-ii-vintage/7843698764.html

Old black still sounds pretty good. I think the backdrops are just screens. 🥲

I'm expecting lots of uninvited strats, teles and jazzmasters finding their way into my feed. https://www.musicradar.com/music-industry/fender-will-not-get-preferential-treatment-reverb-has-been-sold-by-etsy-to-investors-in-fender-and-soundcloud-but-says-its-partnership-with-the-guitar-manufacturer-remains-unchanged

Looks a lot like my first Hamer; mine was a 2005 run from Willcutt's, had a tonepros wraptail. It was my first experience with Hamer seller's remorse.

I got somewhat of a preview of this lineup in February at the Dickey tribute in Macon. No Marc Q or Joe Russo, but Oteil, Derek, Warren, and Chuck were joined by Susan Tedeschi and Duane Betts and laid down some heat. Wish I could've seen these shows at MSG; I have a few friends that were there.

Nothing to add other than a chuckle, remembering my English bass buddy who refers to this brand as Horrible American Rubbish That Keeps Exploding.

I read somewhere that Aldo ordered two of them when originally developing it with Gibson, but only received one, and that Rick Nielsen has the rest of them.

Not an ebony board, and not a pro, but there's a pretty good deal on a Newport over at TGP, ($1600 shipped). Interesting color, too- non-sparkle orange over cherry back: https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/hamer-usa-newport-seeking-trades-cash-price-drop.2617293/

This was my thought- it didn't sound like there was any offer to build a replacement. In that light, he may have been doing Stike a solid by listing a high replacement value.

Yes, that's the one (the only one IIRC)! thanks for pointing out the older thread, @velorush I've read a build thread on it, I want to say it was an entry on the Hamer Workshop blog, but it doesn't seem to be findable.

I searched the threads here that I could find but didn't come up with any of the pics. I remember there used to be a website out there somewhere with pics of it during construction, but can't find that either. @Pieman it sold a few years back, yes? Thanks!

@django49 have you tried any of the Custom Tones power amps that pair with the Ethos line? I know there's a 30W amp in the OG footprint of the big Ethos, and a smaller version... Looks pretty basic with fixed output and my goal is eventually stereo output to two cabs, so likely not a solution for me but I've always wondered about them, and the powered Ethos Amp. The Thermion Zero really should meet all the requirements. I purchased a used one from Reverb and received it last night. Just played thru headphones with a stereo delay in the loop. The internal preamp sounded surprisingly good, very convincing blackface Fender combo sound. It is dead quiet in the background. Switched on the loop- ahh very nice stereo imaging in the headphones. Switched on the reverb- wow- very pro-sounding digital reverb in a huge stereo field. I tried going thru the small, medium, and XL reverb settings, all useable. Switched back to to the XL, no reverb. Switched to small, then to medium again- no reverb. I turned it off for a few minutes and powered it back up, reverb was back. Left it for an hour or so, came back and there was no output at all. I didn't have anything in the preamp loop, but the internal pre was not passing signal. Faint electrical smell... Weirdly, the signal would come back, but only if the FX loop was on. I clicked on the reverb, and was blasted with digital white noise. So bummed- never even hooked it up to cabs, but I'm glad I didn't send that reverb blast thru speakers. It is an incredibly pro-feeling product. Thick steel enclosure, very robust jacks, no play in the knobs. Unfortunately it's going back to the seller- I suppose the deal I got on it was too good to be true.

So stoked for you, Jeff!

This is on my doorstep as I write this, will know whether it's a viable platform shortly.

My favorite album with the Band is Dylan's Planet Waves. Just killer, loose playing with great songs. Even though Robbie's goddamned pinch harmonics nearly ruin Going, Going, Gone.

I changed course (for now), took a flyer on one of these things because I found one very attractively priced. 40Wpc @ 8ohms, all analog (other than a pretty well-implemented digital reverb), cab-simulated stereo XLR outs and headphone outs, a dedicated preamp loop for an external preamp that is footswitchable. It simplifies a lot of things, I'll pair it up with a Kingsley Juggler and a boss DD-8 set to stereo and call it a day. Meets the original goal of being able to hook it up straight to two 1x12s, silent recording straight to DAW (or can do both roles simultaneously), and even allows a means of rocking out on the couch with headphones. I do wish you could defeat the cab sim on the direct outs so you could use different IRs, but if it sounds good, it is good. I'll report back once I get it tested out.

Looking into a solution for running various preamps into two cabs in stereo. Tubes vs. solid state is less important than size and cost, but I don't want it to suck. 1U or 2U... I'll probably throw it in a road case for portability. If budget were not a concern, I'd go for Fryette LXII or Two-Fifty-Two, or even Mesa 50/50 or something. I've heard there are good offerings from Peavey, Carvin, etc... in the sub-$500 range (used), but I have no experience here. Any of y'all former fridge-rack guys have a recommendation?

Yes that works. Killer, as expected.

You can get a used DOD Carcosa for pretty cheap, worth taking a shot at it. It has many of the attributes you mentioned, without being rare or precious. https://digitech.com/dp/carcosa-fuzz/

Anything 9-15 Vdc (polarity doesn't matter).

I've had both versions- the Mono Volume S is currently on my board. The S version (besides being about 30% smaller) also has a few presets with different gain ranges, and a boost can be applied with an extra toe push. It's best in class for my uses; I have it after all gain pedals but before time-based fx, it allows me to leash in upstream fuzz pedals and the like (I just use the gtr volume to vary levels of input gain to the fuzzes/drives), and allows for swells into delays/reverbs, etc...

I have a Hermida ported cab (Thiele parameters) that I have loaded with a Scumback M75 and it's one of the best sounding 1x12s I've used, especially for kerrang-rock. I also have a Glaswerks Thiele cab with an early 90's EVM12L. It is notably heavier and louder (efficiency?) and sounds more hi-fi in general, though I'm sure that's the speaker difference more than the cab. Neither here nor there, but speakers other than an EVM-12L can work well in a Thiele cab.

Don't remember seeing this one posted before- spendy and located in Denmark, but damn what a top. The photos looks a bit processed, not sure what's going with the color of the neck vs. the body... https://reverb.com/item/85477408-hamer-sunburst-usa-1991-floyd-rose-free-eu-shipping