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I got the BDI21 today. My initial impression is pretty favorable, though they hurt my feelings by not including a battery! :mad: I popped it apart to take a good look at it and it's definitely a pretty sophisticated circuit, microminiature surface-mount robotic build, as expected -- a lot of...

My beautiful tube 4x12 half-stack serves as a stand-up desk in my office. Probably the most useful function it will ever serve.

I have all those, too...but I'm not terribly impressed with EL84s for power stage distortion, plus they're still surprisingly loud. I want to monkey around with a 6V6-based 5-watter at some point. In the meantime, I need to build a good speaker isolation box. Yep. In marketing, low...

Yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes. In guitar tube amps, wattage is most significant as an indication of where the power stage breakup sweet spot will be. For 90%+ of guitar players, the magical point of power-stage tube distortion will ***NEVER*** be reached as they've grossly...

In practice, perceived volume is more a function of speaker efficiency than amplifier output in wattage.

The MIM Fenders range in build quality from OK to appalling. I attribute this to some very odd policies at the Ensenada plant that to me seem to me to be a prescription for bad QC. I once examined an incoming shipment of five identical MIM artist series basses. One was fairly nice. One...

There was some sort of problem with the Behringer Pro eating backup batteries fast and losing the presets, but I don't know if that got fixed or what. I've never used the unit, though I have several other modelers and multi-effects I use with variable success. :rolleyes: As for comparing...

Wait...there seems to be some mentioning here of this microphone semi-interchangeably with the 991. Are they similar? Thanks for any clarification. I realized I have a 991 here I got with this combo for $49 at a Guitar Center sale a year or so ago. I got these, tested them and put them away...

On your recommendation, I just ordered one from Amazon.Com for $30.99, delivered...but afterwards, I repeatedly found user reviews of the new units being DOA or otherwise defective out of the package and requiring replacements. How on earth do you screw up a simple stompbox? :confused: I'd...

When I was going through the agonies of novice drum tuning, I encountered this same advice for small toms. I bought a Mapex fusion set and this was a concern for me as I didn't want these smaller toms sounding like timbales. :rolleyes: While nobody actually addressed the physics in their...

Somewhat to my amazement, I have never owned a classical guitar. I was thinking that I should pick one up if for no other reason than to have it for the option of recording nylon-string tracks occasionally. The one thing I do know about classical guitars is that aside from tuning, there are no...

Back to a plain good-quality cable between my guitar and amp, that's where. I currently have about fifteen or twenty analog OD & distortion stomps, including most of the usual ones and not counting numerous digital effects. I have to say I hate all of them. I fool around with them a bit and...

I got one of these in natural earlier this year and it was possibly the worst guitar I've seen in the past thirty years or so. It was absolutely egregious. To start out, it was very badly water-damaged and moldy, with the somewhat funky case delaminating, stinking of mildew. Many of these...

Maybe they're too pure for you. I have a house full of expensive tube and hybrid amps, modern and vintage. What gets 95% of the play time? An Epiphone Valve Junior. Only mod a vintage Mullard preamp tube. Extremely low-noise, extremely basic circuit -- no tone stack, no DSP, no effect, no...

I'm spending a few thousand bucks a year on gear purely out of curiosity and it has to stop. I didn't order this thing, despite the cool lunchbox, and I see that the "everyday price" immediately dropped from $200 to $130 after the big sale. :rolleyes:

At what price do you start reaching the point of diminishing returns as far as actual sound goes?

I don't think they let you return microphones except as defective units for replacement.

Well, I must say you lot have been a great help. :rolleyes: Wait! Wait! I see that it comes with "a rugged aluminum flight case and includes microphone mount"! So, whatever it is, at least you could empty the case and have a extra-styling lunchbox, right?

While it's puffery, it does establish that this thing at least has a transformer, unlike my $25 MXL 990.

That's what I thought, too. Negligible, incoherent review. OK, so where are we with the MXL 3000? A big shrug? :confused: