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Literally take your pick of any Pete Thorn video. Timestamped 2:06

I never liked his channel mainly for his Kemper opinions, BUT.. I met him at NAMM last year and he's actually a really nice guy in person. It changed my opinion on him. I sometimes wonder if other youtubers I hate would be delightful in person. Except Glen, I could smell him coming from a mile...

Pretty fascinating. Thanks for the info. So it is a legit Fender, just assembled with parts and stamped "Made in USA" by the guys who threw the parts together. The neck feels pretty good, like any Japanese Fender. The body feels O.K., just a cheap feeling bridge and the pots/knobs feel gross. I...

Thanks for sharing the post and the insight. Tony kicked me out of his little group because he's a man baby, so I can't read or partake in the sharing of any of this info with some of the other IIC+ nerds.

If I may make some suggestions; use a Suhr RL or Redseven Ampcentral. I captured all my IIC+'s, 5150, 6505+, Invader before I sold them. I'm not one bit unhappy about it. I tried a Mesa CabClone IR+, Captor X, UA OX and they did not sound great for really pushed/gainy stuff. The Captor X...

I'm not an expert on strat identification at all. I've worked on a ton, just not my expertise. I saved this one from the dumpster. It looks like someone took a MIJ strat, stamped "Made in U.S.A." on the heel and tried to pass it off as a USA strat? I've played a handful of MIJ strats and the...

Those heart attack moments are stressful as fuck. :ROFLMAO: I stopped gigging with floyds for a bit because I just didn't "have it". I later 3D printing blocks for my floyds that I'd keep on top of my amp or in my back pocket. If I ever broke a string, I'd pop it in and it would keep my floyd...

Minimum of 2, although my Quantum case holds 3. I may look into an Enki. The first time you break a string on a Floyd equipped guitar live is fun, you can't even hobble through the song. It's rare, but made me paranoid. Pitch shift for anything weird. Guitar doesn't matter, audience can't tell...

What Pre-500 mod did you end up doing? These are the ones I've always read about but never had the chance to do. I have no idea how full of shit or accurate these are: - Change Orange Channel Gain pot to 500k - Change Red Channel Gain pot to 1M - Change Presence Pots to 250k on both channels -...

I make my passwords for everything my daughters name and a number. So my password for 90% of things is Susan69.

I've found a lot of variance in older Mesa amps within the same models. I had a buddy who bought a Rev F after he heard how good my Rev G sounded. His Rev F was flubby and trash. A Triple sounded better. He managed to sell it for a decent chunk because of the hype. Had another Rev G that sounded...

I'm thinking Dustie Waring might join them on guitars. Or at least I think that would be fun.

I foolishly sold my Rev G to buy a Badlander. I bought into the hype about it being the best dual rectifier, modern, tight, aggressive, no boost needed. That was a lie. I won't believe anymore Mesa Rectifier hype. I wouldn't pay for any of Mesa's line up these days. Same business plan as Gibson...

It's a double edged sword for sure. You can order any amp with any options that are on other amp models. I borrowed a Super Comp from a buddy that had a ton of weird things that aren't normally on it. Tried selling it here for him and everyone kept chiming in how it's not "this" or "that", but I...

It's a little known secret in the industry that people are not well paid. I wouldn't take less than $20/hr+ to wire up amps or build guitars. Very few companies are willing to pay that much or more. Hell, I looked into working at PRS a few years back and the second shift was paying $17/hr. I...

Dude, it's abysmal. Almost nothing is unmolested anymore. Anytime I read "modded" in a listing with no pics of the board or name the shop that did it, I know there's something suspect going on in there.

That's clean as heck. It's not too hard to make clean wiring, it's just time consuming. A lot of the industry now "can't afford" to hire competent people to wire up amps in such a clean way, or it takes people years to get amps. That's why you're seeing slop, chinese built or SMD shit.

Not entirely inaccurate. Here's a Gibson Titan I had on my bench recently. Tremolo wasn't working. I wonder if it's because someone had their filthy hands in there and decided to twist the lead wires and then electrical tape them together. No solder. No heat shrink.. Maybe we here are a...

I like seeing more modern metal overdrive pedals with gates built in. I met him last NAMM and he was a really nice guy. Hope it takes off for him. Although, as he said in the beginning a lot of overdrives have "too many unnecessary controls and features". Hope he comes out with a more...

What are you liking better the Matrix or ART SLA-2? The Axe-FX is perfect for dudes who love to tinker and dial stuff in like crazy. I'm terrible at dialing in presets. The Quad is much more organic to me because I can dial a great tone in on an amp, then I just put it into a load box and...