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Yeah, I like the way Fender packages their amps (at least, the ones I've bought lately). My Jazzmaster came with a Speakon speaker cable, a footswitch, a cable for the footswitch, and an IEC power cord AND a nice bag that all of it (with the head -- and except for the speaker cab!) fits into. It...

The Band-Master [not Bandmaster] VM and Deluxe VM are not related to the traditional Bandmaster and Deluxe Reverb models. They are new 2009 hybrid amps with a pair of 6L6 power tubes and two 12AX7 preamp tubes and digital effects [reverb, chorus and delay] and 40 watts rather than the 22 watts...

I have a new Band-Master VM due in tomorrow (the BM is the head version of the Deluxe VM combo -- they share the same circuitry and even the same manual) and perhaps I'll be able to report on it. I was wanting a Jazz-King, but by the time I was in a position to get one, it was discontinued...

Man, it was worth it, learning to smoke just so I could burn up all those ugly Thunderbirds! Ooops -- I mean, what a tragedy.

That's "Squier."

So, this is a thread about "bashing your betters?" Puh-leeze. I'd rather enjoy music than worry about which artist is violating my own limited sense of what's appropriate to his or her art.

...but we are learning a lot about the tastes of the persons posting here. Tells ya something about tone, doesn't it?

Let me know when they sell Thomastik-Infeld Jazz Flats for a buck. Now THAT would make it worthwhile to go to Wally World.

Wow. Thanks a lot. That's a real trove of information. Perhaps this is one of those aphorisms (for example, "everyone talks about the weather but nobody ever does anything about it", attributed most frequently to Mark Twain -- who denied he ever said it) that is assigned to whomever is in the...

I've heard it attributed to Frank Zappa. Since Mr Zappa was quite an aphorist, I'll persist in the belief that he originated it. You may recall his remarks about rock critics: "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people...

It's the pixie dust injected into the tubes. Or, could it be a delusion propagated by the thought, that, gee, I'm playing the sacred vacuum tube? ...nah.

This is one of the great folklore areas of guitar amps. "Everybody" knows that tubes are warm, transistors are sterile, etc etc. The sad truth is that there are ghastly sounding tube amps and great sounding transistor amps, and trying to reduce the whole variety into a mantra is best suited for...

I have a Floor Pod Plus, and it's OK for what I do (occasionally use the wah, ditto the tremolo) and it has lots of features, but it's impossible to tweak anything (as opposed to selecting something you have previously tweaked) on the gig. That said, it sounds fine, has low noise and seems...

Ordinarily, you make sure the input device is recognized and selected in Options/Settings/Device Order and that the correct channel is selected in each track's window at the left side of the Multi Track View.

The short answer is "RTFM" but, if you are new to CEP 2.0 at this point in time, it's clear you don't have a manual. So go to Options/Settings/Multitrack tab/Mixdown and find the fields that set the default to 16-bit or 32-bit (you may have to look around for it). It may not be exactly where I...

Actually, it doesn't do MIDI. When I bought a Mackie Control Universal a few years ago, I had to download a MIDI file from Mackie's web site to do a firmware upgrade. I finally figured out I could use the Windows Media Player to play it back, because the then current edition of Adobe Audition...

Did I mention I bought a Gibson SG? So I'm back into double digits again.

I don't know of any way to monitor a track in that way. It wasn't until Adobe came out with Audition 2.0 that implemented the ASIO drivers that a track could be monitored during recording -- from the track, that is. In other words, you'll actually have to purchase software to do what you want...

I record my wood body Dobro with a small condenser (SM81 or AT 4041) aimed at around one of the soundhole screens, or sometimes I use a large condenser (AT 4033) sort of aimed at the reso cover. I get the "trashy" sound more from my playing technique than the mic -- less damping behind the...

Hmmm...I think it's more like 'deja ever vu anything so pointless?'