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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...

I got a Carvin X Amp head in 1990. The era of grey fuzzy Ozite covering lol. Up to that point, I'd just had a Peavey Backstage Plus. The Carvin had a killer clean channel, but I never really vibed with the overdrive. I think was pitched as a modded Marshall-style, but I'm not sure if it really...

Agreed. I love old Cliff-era Metallica, and I think Jason could have been a heavyweight too if they would have let him off their leash. Since AJFA though, Megadeth's music has been more interesting than Metallica's.

When I sold my AXE-FX II, I was surprised at how close to new I got for it. The FAS stuff tends to hold its value pretty well. I think some of it is that overseas buyers can pay more to buy them used from the US, and still pay way less than they would at home, if they can even get them there...

I don't think Dan had a great track record in terms of overall customer experience, lol. I reached out to him in the mid-90s about a mod for my Carvin X100. I didn't end up doing it, but I seem to remember getting a catalog from him after that which was a bunch of photocopied pages stapled...

I dig the V-1s as well. And an E-1:

I loved both the MTS and Synergy stuff I had. The Synergy stuff especially, with a good tube power section, plays right up there with conventional tube amps. I don't really care if the modules don't sound identical to their name sakes; they can be different and still sound great. I don't imagine...

How close is your pickup to the strings? When my palm mutes sound congested or whatever, I'll lower the pup away from the wound strings a bit to reduce the bass that's hitting the front end of the amp, and then bump up the bass in the amp's tone stack.

They're built to a price point, and I think they're okay for what they are. I'd personally rather put my money towards a Ceriatone, Mojotone, or something else in a comparable tier.

Although I don't have one yet, Headfirst Alta checks every box for me. I have a Randall 667 which is my primary gigging amp, and I feel like the Alta would be an upgrade from that. I could also live with a 2203 and an SD-1. Mine has a 3 way bright switch, buffered loop, and NFB control. Ride...

Yeah, with biometrics, your own device is what's authenticating you, and then that result is what gets sent to eBay or whomever. It's significantly harder to forge than other forms of authentication, and the identifying data stays on the devices you own, rather than stored on some company's...