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It's at least fifteen years overdue for a cap job, whether or not this is the immediate cause of the problem or not. Might be.

That's what they used to say three or four years ago, but I don't know if it's true or not in 2006. There was a big scandal of some sort with Samick and they did a massive reorganization of the company, got new people, shut down all the Korean plants and moved manufacturing operations abroad...

Squiers are not built by FMIC, but are contract builds for FMIC. That's Cor-Tek. "Cort" is Cor-Tek's in-house brand. Cor-Tek makes lots of contract FMIC guitars, as well as for many other brands. Kasuga is also making Fenders, I understand, since Fuji-Gen Gakki stopped. I don't know how the...

Some of those mics ship from the factory without the right parts, come to that. In any case, the typical stock resistors are only around 380M if I remember correctly, though these resistors (like other Oktava board components) vary in value due to Russian availability. The conformal coating...

I've discussed these mods with Scott privately, and the most difficult part of the project is meeting the extreme demands of cleanliness required by the ultra-hi-Z circuit. The resistor replacement value Scott recommended was 3GOhms, no the 1GOhms supplied in this kit. 3Gs are rare and...

Assuming the information we've been given is correct, this seems to be very clearly a case of a less efficient speaker (check SPL ratings) being used as a replacement. Happens all the time, and the audible difference is very noticeable and very real.

I think that's correct, but then there's the "Valve Reactor." I have never heard a cogent explanation of the Vox "Valve Reactor" system, including the official one Vox offers. What it generally appears to be is a solid-state preamp connected to a miniaturized tube power amp consisting of a...

My take on this is that modding pedals may or may not be a waste of time, but it certainly isn't as stupid as spending up to a hundred bucks to have someone else swap out eighty cents worth of parts for you. That's insane. Anyway, enjoy it while you can: Every day, more pedals are becoming...

Well... I got serious about hooking everything up this afternoon to do some testing and I have to report that this kit performs somewhat better than I had hoped. I got it running LinPlug RMIV in Cubase with little hassle by programming the drum module on the kit to "MIDI THROUGH." This...

I fool around with a lot of OD & distortion pedals just for the education, though I never actually use them for my music. The problem with most of them is that they can't handle tonally-complex input (such as complex chords) without turning it into mud. One interesting metal pedal that...

How did you do it? Just configure the box "MIDI THROUGH"? It would just about have to be. Will the "Pedal" inputs take velocity-sensitive pads? Are the existing pedals piezo, or what? I'm somewhat wary of swapping the ins on these for fear of damaging the module. :( Funny, I would have...

OK, they arrived today and I put them together, somewhat tentatively. First impressions? They really are the absolute minimum needed to get the job done. They are adequate, but just barely. They are the cheapest way to get (mostly) velocity-sensitive MIDI drum input into the computer using a...

Whatever it is, it isn't what he paid for. That's the bottom line. At that price, which I regard as outrageous, you have the expectation of getting EXACTLY what was advertised. No substitutions and no rebrands without your expressed permission beforehand, even if they are "the same" or...

Read my last post.

I agree. In my amps, I rarely change out more than the V1 tube as the others have relatively negligible effect on the sound to my ear at the volumes at which I work. As many people have pointed out, most home amps will probably never reach the volume levels needed to experience power-stage...

Please note the important use of that term, "supposedly." In any case, I think (like most people who take vintage tubes more seriously than I do) I would prefer to have a vintage tube that has had some mild use as a satisfactory audio piece and as tested out showing lots of remaining life...

I can't really see them that well in the picture. What are they, exactly, and what are they sold as? I desperately need some off-floor storage for my instruments as they take up too much studio space -- like stands three-deep all the way around the room. So far, all the hanger options I've...

One caveat I try to remember to bring up when these preamp tube discussions appear is that one of the things you have to look out for is wearing out the tube sockets (to the point they have to be replaced) by swapping tubes in and out testing the comparative sounds. They lose their grips pretty...

Man, I'm just dying to see what shows up in that iED01 set! Will it have the separate MIDI interface with a rebadged SR-16...or will that "SR-16/Not" be adapted for external triggers? :confused: Oy! The suspense is killing me!