The New Tone Thread

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yeah you definitely want to avoid it ..... it's an expensive repair ...... don't misunderstand ..... I'm not saying it won't harm a tube amp to go into no-load ( although it pretty much won't harm a SS amp) .... you absolutely don't want to do it ever if possible.

But, as you said, amps go into no-load all the time and it rarely blows them up.

And I have blowed up one tranny is a PA head a long time ago ...... green smoke started pouring out of the thing! :D
 
Well, I think I won another round. Removed the jacks/circuit board from the stock jack plate. Bought some basic 1/4" metal mono jacks and wired them in. Also hard-wired all of the speaker leads. No more spade connectors. So now I got the stock plate with two new metal hardwired jacks. Both jacks read 16 ohm mono, but the cab can now be daisy chained to another 16 ohm cab for a single 8 ohm load. Tested perfectly with the multimeter. Haven't ran sound through it yet.



 
Cool Gerg,
It's nice to be able to fix something like that yourself, & for me, it'd give me peace of mind knowing it was "right"....Cool man.....Replied to the pm btw......

No tones tonight, I did record a little today before work, but after listening to 'em tonight when I got in, a re-track is in order, they just don't sit in the mix like I hoped....Oh well, live & learn...LOL...I am getting closer on the album thing though guys, the song I was recording the guitars to today sounds much better (to me anyway) timing-wise & drum performance wise, I'd hoped to have all of 'em finished up by spring, but don't think it's gonna happen...Too much shit happenin' to really get anything serious done, but it's ok, I don't wann rush these songs at all, I actually want these to make my other songs sound like pure shit, which in reality, shouldn't be that hard to do.....:laughings:
 
Thanks fellas. Yeah this was a minor repair, but it's still rewarding to fix something yourself and actually make it better. I will be doing this same fix to my other two cabs that don't need it yet, but probably will.

Minerman - don't rush your music dude. A big project like a whole album never happens on time when you're doing it all yourself. It's better to take longer and be happy with your results than to self-impose an unnecessary deadline and have it be less than it could be.
 
Greg,
You are annoyingly proficient at these things and problem solving as well.
I hope you get up set when your zipper sticks or something like that just the even the playing field.
 
rayc said:
Greg,
You are annoyingly proficient at these things and problem solving as well.
I hope you get up set when your zipper sticks or something like that just the even the playing field.
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Haha, thanks, I think. :D

I am pretty mechanically inclined. I'm a mostly self-taught mechanic and built race cars and race engines for years. When I was little I used to crawl under my parents' cars just to look at how everything was connected together. I don't know electronics though. Not residential A/C consumer stuff anyway. I can wire up a car no problem. I don't really understand cathodes and transformers and capacitors and stuff like that. I am trying to learn though. I learn best by just doing it.
 
Greg_L said:
Minerman - don't rush your music dude. A big project like a whole album never happens on time when you're doing it all yourself. It's better to take longer and be happy with your results than to self-impose an unnecessary deadline and have it be less than it could be.
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Exactly dude, you know, it takes a lot of time & work when a band goes in to record an album, what I'm doing is a lot more than that, I'm the songwriter, arranger, musician(s), mix engineer, mastering engineer, & errand boy all rolled into one....plus I'm working a full-time job while trying to do this shit too...Thanks for the encouragement dude!!!
 
minerman said:
Exactly dude, you know, it takes a lot of time & work when a band goes in to record an album, what I'm doing is a lot more than that, I'm the songwriter, arranger, musician(s), mix engineer, mastering engineer, & errand boy all rolled into one....plus I'm working a full-time job while trying to do this shit too...Thanks for the encouragement dude!!!
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So who makes the tea?
 
minerman said:
Exactly dude, you know, it takes a lot of time & work when a band goes in to record an album, what I'm doing is a lot more than that, I'm the songwriter, arranger, musician(s), mix engineer, mastering engineer, & errand boy all rolled into one....plus I'm working a full-time job while trying to do this shit too...Thanks for the encouragement dude!!!
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Keep at it, your project will be done on it's own schedule. Just try to not fall into that "Tom Schultz" syndrome, where you get so "nit-picky" that it takes a lifetime. Not disrespecting his accomplishments or his legendary tunes, but he could have done much more.

My focus is on writing songs to continue to build a catalogue of available songs for music publishing. At my age, being a rock star might be out of the question, but life experience makes it easier for me to write songs. Not saying that tonal quality isn't important to me, but at the end of the day, what sells is the song.

As Sir Paul told Michael, music publishing is where the money is. :guitar:

Good luck Bro! :thumbs up:
 
I like tea.
And thanks for keeping the thread going.
I'm going to get back here, I swear it.
I figure another one to two months and I will have worked through an issue that has been eating up all of my leisure time.
 
Bumping our thread back up guys, been pretty busy, but I'm making progress with my fake drums....Hopefully this is my last shift for the week, might record & post some toans tonight, just depends on how it goes at work tonight....Thanks for all the support & help!!!
 
minerman said:
Bumping our thread back up guys, been pretty busy, but I'm making progress with my fake drums....Hopefully this is my last shift for the week, might record & post some toans tonight, just depends on how it goes at work tonight....Thanks for all the support & help!!!
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working in a coal mine going down down down .... working in a coal mine OOPS about to slip downnnnnnn
 
Well, I made it through another shift at the shit hole....LOL...Last Friday made 24 years I've been doing this coal mining shit, can't believe I've been doing that for so long...

Great movie "Heavy Metal", I listen to the soundtrack quite often still yet...

On the 16 tons, just guessing, I loaded out about 2,500 tons tonight, but I had a little help from a 40-ton monster too, no shovel for me anymore, but I have been there & done that years ago...:)

Time for a shower, something to eat, & might record some toans, just depends if I fall asleep on the couch or not...:laughings:
 
just in from a gig ..... gotta change my strings and crash ..... gotta spend a few hours tomorrow prepping for a git gig tomorrow night.

These D'Adarrio strings I'm beta testing are damned impressive ........ I've had them on the git for a month or two .... at least 20 gigs and they're still ok ...... but for this gig I wanna be catious so off they come.
 
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