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Yep. The article I read said he had cancelled a bunch of shows after receiving the diagnosis. Not a rocker, but absolutely a big part of my 70's childhood and a huge talent.

^^Those are absolutely fabulous^^ Magical, even... as you said, "always on" I prolly need to pick another up as I sold mine when I went through my 'gear divestiture madness' (GDM).

I just gate them at the board. Pretty cool if the FOH board doesn't have that capability though.

0000 has one. Can't find a picture, but Martin Barre's 0002, as well. Those were pretty early.

Maybe @JGravelin needs to develop the "Aficionado package." Just spit-balling... Bobbins formed from genuine 50's Melamine treated with UV until horribly yellowed, soaked in a bath of hydrogen peroxide to whiten, then coated in a special patented yellowing agent to relic Bobbins wound with Western Electric 42 AWG swallowed by a cat, collected on excretion, subsequently wiped gently with one pass with Seth Lover's handkerchief. Scatter winding performed on the machine Tesla used to create his first Tesla coil with the wire being handled by a direct descendent of David Graybeard, the first chimp observed by Jane Goodall using tools in the wild. Maple (of course) spacer quarter sawn from the last remaining bowling pin from the alley installed in the White House by Harry S. Truman, lightly covered in dewaxed shellac to bring out the natural chatoyance. German silver pickup covers hammered from pieces of a 17th century Puja Thali set, individually aged over liver of sulfur, polished to a bright lustre then aged again with a special proprietary process developed in Paris by Nicolas Flamel. All fasteners individually machined on Eli Whitney's original mill (c.1819) using materials recycled from recovered Soviet-era space vehicles. $1,500 each. Ten year waiting list ($500 deposit required) Can you tell today is the Company Christmas party / lunch? 🤣

Exactly! I think I recall giving $250 a piece for the Imperials I put in the Howard Roberts Fusion. They definitely sound better than the 490 set that came out of it and probably the incremental-difference-in-price better (if that makes sense), but could I ever hear enough difference to warrant that kind of outlay? Okay, what about after the drums and bass kick in? The rest of the band? OTOH, I applaud the ThroBak guy for finding a fantastic market segment scratching the itch of those with the funds and discernment to appreciate his wares.

Watched this earlier when it popped up on my feed (Subscribe!) - added this to the "more gear I know nothing about" list and immediately started Googling to see what it was. Very interested! Always enjoy your videos.

I'd be far more concerned with the propeller.

Just ran across this. Very entertaining and he still shreds in an always unique and interesting way.

At the risk of non-guitar-gear-posting excommunication, here's the only significant haul of the year: Sitting on the couch Sunday I get a surprise notification from FedEx - a delivery! It was around 24 degrees, so I go to the door, poke my head out and survey the empty front porch. I then, at great risk of hypothermia and/or frostbite, step out onto the front porch, peer to the north and see a large box on the driveway next to the garage door. I suppose it was too much to require the driver to comprehend the (surely) French marking "Fragile" (fra-GEE-lay) on the box. I wasn't holding out a great deal of hope for the contents. I let it acclimate for a day before opening (or to be more precise, finish opening). It was saved by the superior Roland box inside. I sold my JD-Xi a couple of years back - great synth but the mini keys were a bummer. This has full-sized keys and a useful feature set. Sweetwater had them $200 off. I had been not-buying a Fantom for quite a few years ($$$$). This does all I'd want to do with the Fantom at a fraction of the price. And to answer the obvious follow-up question - yes, despite the gaping hole and packing material excreted into the Japanese maple, the Sweetwater candy packet was safely inside.

"The Princess Bride" is among the best efforts ever committed to film.

I (naively, at home) set up for a particular song one Sunday. I ran my distortion into a compressor then into the amp with the idea I could use the volume knob to ramp up the gain during the chorus and back to clean arpeggios for the verse, all the while my overall volume would be more or less the same. Worked fantastically! Got to church the next morning (the building constructed in the 50's with multiple subsequent additions and a spider web of electrical "improvements." The building we have since torn down...), plugged in my Strat with 57/62 pickups (yep, I was asking for it) and ran through the song. The noise was absolutely unbearable! With no time to figure something else out I just sat out of that one. 😐

With respect to compressors, it's not that they're particularly noisy, but in limiting dynamics they by design make low-level sounds louder and high-level sounds softer. Noise introduced previously in the chain is amplified by the circuit. If you've got noisy pickups and/or gain stages (i.e., dirt pedals) in front of the compressor, any noise from the guitar on down will be amplified by the gain stage and then amplified again by the compressor.

The search for a couple of specific Hamers continues, but I was shanghaied last week by the one-two punch of the Sweetwater app and their ridiculous sale and find myself low on funds... I did pick up some cool kit, but Hamers will have to wait.

Pedally has these on Reverb marked down 10% through Monday: https://reverb.com/item/47458384-lpd-pedals-eighty7-plexi-preamp-pedal?bk=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJqdGkiOiIyN2Y4NGExMC0wZmE4LTQzYmYtOGJhZi03NGFjYWNkNzI4MzEiLCJpYXQiOjE3NjU2NDE2MzcsInVzZXJfaWQiOiIzMDQ5MTIiLCJzZXNzaW9uX2lkIjoiNzMxYThmNGUtYmI5MS00N2YxLWE5MDEtODQxYjk1ZTdhMTE5IiwiY29va2llX2lkIjoiZjdmNGEyMjctYmNmOC00YmIwLWE5ZjctZWViOTEyMDdiMjk4IiwicHJvZHVjdF9pZCI6IjQ3NDU4Mzg0Iiwic291cmNlIjoiTk9ORSJ9.b_0PlrKiVxQ14kYlPyr7LqBRECJoifrGRMMij3SVftM Deluxe version (two channels) too: https://reverb.com/item/55567595-lpd-pedals-eighty7-deluxe-overdrive-pedal?bk=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJqdGkiOiI4NDhjMDQyYy0yYjBhLTRlNzYtYTViZS02NWJlMDk2ODY4MDciLCJpYXQiOjE3NjU2NDE2MzcsInVzZXJfaWQiOiIzMDQ5MTIiLCJzZXNzaW9uX2lkIjoiNzMxYThmNGUtYmI5MS00N2YxLWE5MDEtODQxYjk1ZTdhMTE5IiwiY29va2llX2lkIjoiZjdmNGEyMjctYmNmOC00YmIwLWE5ZjctZWViOTEyMDdiMjk4IiwicHJvZHVjdF9pZCI6IjU1NTY3NTk1Iiwic291cmNlIjoiTk9ORSJ9.6qN_BNjh8AzHbjwx0E66YWbIwCSZGjrrmPFsawUbfvI

Yep, that's the sound: ETA: I especially like the low gain sounds.

Seriously? Getting an overwhelming sense of Count Floyd here! Okay, maybe the Vee.

Interesting: the Zuckerbots obscured both the image and the copy in the page, but when I screenshot and pasted here it was visible.

Thank you! Your sacrifice saved me, but now I am aware that perhaps some of these came with an adequate handle and am resigned to starting another endless search for one (to accompany my decades-long search for the right Prototype!)!

Just saw this and thought I'd post here: Amazing! Tragic!

Please tell me it's a Norlinesque boat anchor! I didn't know these ever came with large necks, so I've ignored them for years.

Maybe my "collection," but with what I've seen of yours, agree to disagree. 🙂

Observations: I am having difficulty just coming to terms with what I've scrolled through and parsing that with the very nonchalant quote in the related thread, "I'll be exhibiting about 15 to 20 guitars at the Orlando Show this year," - like anything else done in a typical day: "I'm having my tires rotated," or "I'll be having a sandwich foie gras." And these are the culls? 😲

Maybe there is a reason the "60's unit" was rare... The praise coming out of their mouths does not match the involuntary facial expressions. ETA: £199 is $267.13 this morning...

That's insane! Full report, please! "Xanadu" is a must.