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I am unreasonably excited about the Ecstasy. Can't wait to tweak it - thanks for the tips! I *should* have kept it to smaller stuff too. Definitely no new gear for me for a little while. I actually jumped on the Carvin and the Blackstar early in the sale, so when the Ecstasy popped up later...

That is absolute a mod. Here's an unaltered Fireball 60. Mine is slightly newer so black chassis and smooth tolex, but the design/circuit is unchanged from the silver front models like yours: As far as what that control actually does, I have no idea. Putting a 12AY7 (45% gain of a 12AX7) in...

I picked up the following during this sale, coupled with 5% cashback on paypal for this month on my credit card: 90s Bogner Ecstasy 101B Egnater Vengeance Carvin Legacy II Blackstar Series 104-6L6 Empress Compressor - this one was mostly to cross the 499 threshold on the same order with the...

Link me and you'll have 501 at least ;) That is surprising! Even with all its faults, I do intend someday to pick up another Virus. I don't care if it's the older one and not the Ti. Just want to fiddle around with it again for giggles, I highly doubt I'm ever going to record anything with...

Damn, I don't have any pictures and I'm away at the moment. There was a time I fancied myself a dubstep/edm/acid fan, seems bizarre looking back on it now. But I still have all of the Native Instruments stuff like FM8 & Massive, and I really loved a weird little software synth called "Sylenth1"...

My favorite modded Marshall tone for most purposes is my Mesa Triple Recto Rev G - A little closer to home, I have a Ceriatone King Kong (similar to Chupacabra/Yeti) which is pretty damn nasty for a certain kind of sound, but my favorite is a 2006 Splawn Quickrod in 3rd gear, blows my mind all...

Did you find a Larry that someone traded into GC's used section? Because if so, that'd certainly be a day of note... speaking of depravity...

These things must be selling like hot cakes because the last 5 or 6 used amps I've gotten from GC all came in re-purposed ICONIC cardboard boxes...

Sounds sick man. Beautiful amp too, I love the matching look and the kind of "standard" white tolex and black front panel. I'll admit I had one with the hot rod flames on it and as much as I loved the sound I got rid of it fast just for the looks (and spoiled me had another one almost exactly...

Global economic issues aside, my comment on this is about private sales appearing to be stagnant: If I can google whatever you are selling, and find it 15-25% cheaper, you need to lower your price. Sales turnover at small, expensive shops and private listings looks slow - but big retailers are...

Still waiting for mine to come back from repair, which kind of sucks. But I paid about $1700 after tax and chrome chassis this summer, but it came from a shop that isn't really into high gain stuff so I think they just stuck a regular dual rec price on it. I'd say "lucky me" except the repair is...

I have a Ceriatone AH50 Deluxe, which is basically a copy of the BE50 Deluxe and it’s a great amp. The only thing I don’t like about it, and this is true of the real Friedman one, is that the two overdrive channels share the same EQ controls and the Sat switch affects both channels. There are...

A lot of reverb sellers don’t even seem to realize that offers are enabled on their listings and just ignore them. In my case if I have something listed and I’m at my minimum/firm price, I just turn offers off for the listing. Sounds like the guy is firm on the price and you’re wasting your time...

I've heard that a few times before lol I know the IR-X has two real tubes in it but it's not like it hasn't been done before. It's basically a rack preamp but in a pedal format, there have also been others like the VOX Tonelab or those Blackstar 12AX7 pedals that touted "real amp feel and...

I’ve had a JB Jr, dimarzio fast track, and tone zone “S.” I thought they all sounded pretty good, only reason I stuck to SSS is because I have many other HB guitars and liked having a more authentic strat around to learn different stuff on. Do you have a soldering iron? You can grab a used one...

I have a middle-ish run Rev G Triple with the pointy knobs and it rips, one of my favorite sounds and I prefer it to me 3ch and MW triples. Can’t wait to A/B with the dual Rev F when it gets back from repair (still a long ways to go on that I bet)

I have two right now, one from '86 with vented '86 G12T75's and the other in that '92 6960 cab (same dimensions anyway) with '92 G12T75's (more modern white sticker style). They sound extremely different, and I definitely prefer the vented G12T75's for the rolled off high end that makes them...

I saw similar costs for refrets and decided to teach myself on a crap neck. I bought the tools, fret wire, and a spare low end neck to practice on. Yes it took some time but I'm glad I learned, though I'm not nearly as good as some professionals by any means - just good enough to fix minor...

I just got it, so I'm still in the honeymoon phase with it, but I'm also very impressed. It has a little less gain than I expected, but not in a bad way or anything. While I was waiting for it and researching I was checking the schematic and reading about the "James" EQ. I should be better about...

Crap, you are absolutely right. They are both cathode follower type. I’ll fix my original post - thanks for pointing that out!