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i dunno. I kinda feel like buyers are the ones who determine who lives and who dies. Like with walmart: you can blame predatory pricing and other anti-competitive tactics, but it's ultimately consumers who are deciding that going cheap is worth more than supporting their local merchants. In...

Windows 11, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Focusrite Clarett+ 8pre, pair of Yamaha HS8 monitors

I like the SD Alnico II Pro in the neck, wired for coil splitting. For me it's the perfect complement to a JB in the bridge.

I gave lessons as a side gig for years, and ended up in an adjunct position for the local university. I would typically find an existing method that matched the style of music the students were interested in, and their level. Something reputable, like the Berklee method. I had classical, jazz...

+1 for the Peavey JSX. Perhaps my favorite Peavey since the VTM.

I saw him on his rockabilly riot tour last year. Very enjoyable. Gave me a hankering for a big body Gretsch with some TV Jones classics. I'm sure this will end up just being a speed bump for him.

I've used moving companies for my last two moves, one of which was two states away. Amps were fine in road cases on their truck, but I transported the guitars myself. Also updated my personal articles policy on my homeowners specifically for my music gear.

I have a pair of Egnater Tourmaster 412A cabs, which came with V30s stock. They're the cabs I have that everything seems to sound good through. I tend to like low- to mid-gain Marshall tones, with a clean boost in front. 70s/80s hard rock and light metal. From Kiss to Queensryche. Even though...

That sucks, what a PITA. I guess I'm fortunate. I've been on Reverb since 2015, several hundred transactions as both buyer and seller, and nothing really to gripe about. I've had a handful of experiences with shady buyers, and Reverb has always sided with me. I had a seller send me an amp with...

Thank you so much. This sounds AMAZING, Voted for two and commented.

That song is the musical equivalent of this coffee commercial: The solo wasn't terrible, but the tone sounded like it was dialed in by someone who'd walk around clasping their coffee mug with two hands.

The filter caps will already need to be reformed by the time he finishes it ;-)

"I do not copy any other guitar design" ...but then in his gallery (ahem, "Portfolio"), he proceeds to label each one with Telecaster, or Thinline, or Firebird, or Strat, or Les Paul, or whomever else's design he's deriving his from. I guess he came up with the idea of relicing in a complete...

That's my sense of it as well. Band conflicts and all of the red tape that goes with trying to be successful. It didn't take much of that to suck all of the joy out of it for him. At a certain level, sometimes (perhaps oftentimes), the music itself becomes the least important part of keeping the...

Each one comes with a coupon to marry a large-foreheaded girl and take her last name.

It's not an aesthetic I like, but there are a lot of guitars I feel that way about. I'm not a fan of a lot of the newer shapes (Strandberg), and the beveling that companies like Kiesel are doing. I don't mind the blue/white combo, but having some white hardware and other chrome hardware bugs me...

I'm a huge fan of the Randall RT2/50, but they've been end of life for years, and increasingly had to come by. The specs on the KSR PA100R look really attractive though. Having an NFB control right on the front, dual masters, mute control, effects loop, (and MIDI switching of all three)...

Seems like a good deal for people who actually want/need the X100 sound but don't want to pay hundreds more for a 30+ year old piece of gear. On the other hand, people who want the tone and nostalgia will just get the real deal for a few bills more, give or take. I'm neither of those groups ;-)

Unless I'm asking them to design the mod, if I take my amp in, I'm looking purely at parts and bench time. I've not ever dealt with many other techs, but that's my experience with the one I use. IIRC, he ballparked me a couple hundred bucks to mod my Ceriatone 2203 to JEL specs.

Egnater: I'm not sure they've been up to much in several years. Bruce isn't with them, and I don't anticipate anything interesting from them without him, if they're even active at all. It seems like some of their imports had some QC issues early on that may have soured people on them. I think...