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The general guitar gadgets site. I've built a bunch of stomp boxes using the printed circuit boards from the general guitar gadgets site. The first one was a little rough, the board worked great but I had a hard time jamming all the components into a small enclosure. Once I rebuilt it into a bigger enclosure it was reliable as any commercial one. In fact, the clean boost I built actually does sound better than the fulltone fat boost, cost me about 10% of the street price. He's in the states, but I got a bunch of parts from here: http://www.smallbearelec.com/home.html It's a great source for the germanium stuff. A little slow, but easy to deal with.

Well, a little beer some funky dirt and a little corrosion and you'll get a quieter guitar. especially if it's bad beer. in fact it's got to be bad beer, i don't think i've ever heard of anyone spilling a good beer on a guitar before.

if you're comparing a strat to guitars with humbucking pickups its going to be quieter. spilled beer on the volume pot lately? or the pickup selector switch?

only thing that will really reduce the sound leaking out is mass- more sheet rock, lead foil, false walls. sorry, that's not good news. Egg Crates will help with sound diffusion inside the room, but to reduce those low frequencies it's adding mass to the walls (and isolating them too) that's going to do it.

the white one.....

it shouldn't do that...... probably a tube, er, valve. valve, probably a valve 3 gains and no standyby? what kind of amp is this? .

cool, I need a 4x12, can you send me some detials by pm?

yeah, get some new tubes. but do this first, before you try the new tubes. 1. Take ALL the tubes out. 2. Put in a good fuse 3. Power it up. If the fuse blows take it to get repaired- you've blown your power tranny or some of the parts in the power supply and the voltages are running away. If it doesn't blow the fuse then try it with new tubes. Oh, don't try this with a valve state or hybrid solid-state amp. It's got to have pre-amp and power amp tubes.

depends on what's wrong with it. what kind of amp is it and are the symptoms?

one that uses big slabs of open reel tape. An old Studer or MCI 2-inch 16 track machine and a couple of old Ampex mic preamps. Sympte-synch the ree2reel to a digital recorder. Oh, and a big air-conditioned room and a full-time engineer. It is a fantasy set-up after all. But, if it had to be practical, it'd be protools.

Hey, just a thought- you don't have to be a 'blues' player, just a good solid bass player that likes to jam......

Hey- I need a bass player for a blues band- Originals and covers, some Stevie Ray style stuff. Lots of loose jamming. Gigs booked, need someone fast, even if it's just to cover a few gigs. Please PM, rather than post here, and also send me a good phone number to contact you. I need to move quickly.....

paper and glue may work, but I don't think it'll hold for long. the speaker's got to vibrate to make sound, and i bet you'll pull the paper apart real fast. plus most glues dry hard and inflexible, so in the long run you may do more damage.

start showing up late for rehearsal, start telling everyone to turn down and never help move gear.... seriously, singing lessons are a good place to start. think of it this way- you wouldn't just switch to keyboards without a few lessons. start off by treating your voice like an instrument and find out how to get the most of it.

nawwww. silicone caulk is cheeper. works great if you've just got a puncture. looks like shit though, so don't look there...

that's so cool. And Mike henderson is a killer player. For years I've wanted to get to his monday night gig at the bluebird cafe in Nashville that he does for beer money. he's an amazing harp player too. but that silvertone sound of his just is a killer. right before I moved I borrowed a guitar that a friend got out of pawn- one of the silvertones that came with the amp in the case? oh my gawd what a tone. and the guitar weighed maybe all of 2 pounds!

try silicone caulk from B&Q.

Yeah, that's the animal! Heavy strings, an open tuning and stand back. The other ones that are really raw sounding are the ones that are about an inch across and have a diamond pattern stamped on them. Killer tone. Raw as hell. Mark knows, so does Mike Henderson. Ever hear him play? Damn, that's a tone too. All cheap silvertone pickups.

yep- www.sonhenry.com schedule is a little out of date, i'll fix that this weekend. dundee blues festival, couple of other dates need to go on.

oh man, crappy old silvertone pickups, the kind jammed in the old lipstick tubes. sound killer through a dimed amp...

Next one is the Lemon Tree on June 3. We've got some festivals to do this summer too.

Great Jennifer- I sent you my contact information, call me when you get a chance!

Thanks JME! The show was fun, it's cool when people dig really raw delta blues like that, rather than all the slick stuff. Did you make it in? But, hey- we should still jam for shit's and giggles before you leave town! And if not good luck in your next place.

blues is a tough sell everywhere, not just aberdeen. It goes in cycles. It was really hot during the SRV years, really cooled off after he died. Before then it was really big in the 60's, cooled off for a bit then too. if it's what you want to play stick to it and you'll find players and gigs. think of it as a test of faith..... oh, and if you're looking for a guitar player or a harp player to sit in sometime, pm me, i'm always up for a jam!