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Tapping the tube with a wooden pencil or dowl is standard practice.It wont hurt the tube.(I said tap, not knock the shit out of it.) If you can hear the tap through the speaker, the tube is microphonic.If you can hear a pencil tap through the speaker, then you can bet your ass that when you put...

Wireneck, sounds like you have a power tube that is microphonic.Remove any covers or what-not to expose the tubes.Make sure all of the tubes are well seated.With nothing plugged into the amp turn it on and crank it up a bit. Tap each tube with a pencil.If you hear the tap thruogh the speaker...

I think sweeps sound great when they are well placed and dont outrun the tempo of the tune.Practice the entire solo with a metronome.

Fair enough my creamy compadre.My answer to that would be that if you like it, by all means use it.I've rolled my own eyes at purchases I've made. I'm not trying to say that folks cant make good music on cheap gear, only that they would be inspired to make better music if they didnt let impulses...

First I would tell you to quit shopping at Guitar Satan for amps. Secondly, listen to all of the music that you really love and ask yourself if you can duplicate it live with an EVJ or a BH or whatever the POS du jour is @ GS. Third, play live, it is the only true test of how good gear is.It's...

When you get tired of playing in the livingroom for your drunk buddies, your mom, dad, read my post again.If you think that the afore-mentioned amps are the end of the search for tone and clarity, then by all means end your quest there.Those amps are garbage.

Sorry Buck but the blackheart is a pos.So is EVJ.No such thing as bang for the bucks when walking out of the store with it instantly devalues it. I have trouble understanding why good players will buy shit amps 20 times over in a life time to "save a few $$$" ,when they could buy a nice amp that...

Congrats on the new wood.Glad you are inspired by it,but for fucks sake,30 yrs of hell should at least fetch a one off custom.

That is entirely untrue.A great carpenter cant build one off custom shit using a hacksaw and 16 penny nails, no more than a mason could carve stone with a rubber mallet and a plastic chisel. I shouldnt say "entirely untrue", because the fingers and who they are attached to does make up a lot...

By the time you get thru paying for mods you could just buy an amp that does what you want already.Why pay $600.00 to $800.00 to have Bray mod a JCM800 when you can buy a Splawn Quickrod for less than you paid for the amp and mod?

Most acoustics dont get the strings yanked on like an electric and are strung with heavier gage strings.As for guitars fashioned exactly like an L.P., I've had the same probs with those as well. I got rid of my last L.P. pronto because it was useless on stage.Looked good and sounded fantastic...

Take the octave strings from a 12 string set and put them on a 6 string acoustic.Tune it up.yer done.

Light,you are misunderstanding me.I'm not talking about the tilt of the headstock.I am talking about the angle of the D and G string between nut and tuner.(Imagine the guitar on a stand facing you.The d string take a very hard angle to the left from nut to tuner and the G does the same to the...

At the end of of a day,the last thing I want is to argue with a fellow git player.We all have a tendency to be adament with our opinions.I think L.P.'s are one of the better sounding axes I've ever heard.They dont stay in tune for me,and that is a problem for me.If they work for you, that is...

No.I was actually trying to give the guy some good advice based on close to 30 yrs of playing experience. Les Pauls do have tuning issues and the angle from nut to tuner is the culprit.I've owned a few and played well over 100 and they dont stay in tune well.If the real deal wont stay in...

Just from looking at the pic,I would say that that guitar will be a POS, no matter who puts it together.Les Pauls have a flaw in that the string angle from nut to tuner is drastic on the D and G strings.Even high end models wont stay in tune like guitars with a better design.If I were you I...

I'm down the road from you(montgomery) and know just about every club owner in town.Most wont hire a solo act at all.Most wont hire a duet unless it is a week night.None will hire an act that covers only one artist, with the exception of an occassional rock tribute band.(and that is rare) To...

Man, that is just superb.You have spent alot of time listening to my two favorite guitar guys.(Roy and Jeff)Drop that band in a box and get some players with you and let me know where I can catch you at.Awesome!

Frusciante is vry hard to listen to for me.Infact the whole band is.The singer (if you want to call him that)sucks.Never mind that he is off pitch 99% of the time,his voice is about as musical as two rocks in a blender. Flea manages to lock in with the drums on at least 3 tunes out of there...

Yer both wrong.If wives were involved we would not have peckers,much less an instrument that attracts poon. Let us never speak of this again brothers.