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Curious to see what they come out with. My first tube amp was an X60B, which I think I got in 90 or 91. Great clean, but never really bonded with the overdrive channel. Had a v3 a decade ago or so, and it was pretty meh. I never had much interest in their other offerings, except maybe the Quad...

I view EQ in the loop as part of that last 5%. Everything about the pickups I use, pedals, amp, cabinet, etc., should get me 95% or more of where I want to be. I need to have the core tone from everything else, but I also recognize that we all have different tastes, and the tone stacks in our...

He was on fire in the early 80s. He started losing me gradually after Trilogy. At some point he started using his neck pickup and notch positions even more, and it seems like his playing lost a bit of intensity at the same time. He's his band's worst singer though.

I don't like the idea of buying anything I can't pay for up front. Part of that from the hard lessons of terrible decisions when I was younger. With the 0% finance deals, you're still paying for the financing, whether you know it or not. It's built into the markup of whatever it is your buying...

I've bought from Antique Electronic Supply and Tube Depot mostly. I lean towards the Tungsol EL34B and EH EL34 for CP. Actually liked the Mullard reissue EL34 as well. I got a few pair of the Mesa-branded NOS Siemans EL34 too before they got crazy expensive, and those were direct from Mesa.

For sure. They may not sound identical to their conventional counterparts, but to me that doesn't mean they don't sound as good. I'm just looking for a canvas to do my own thing. It's not competing against anything except my own tastes, and a huge portion of that lands on my ears and my hands...

Like others have said, they're not going to be identical to their namesakes. I don't think different equates to inferior though. I've played plenty of standalone tube heads that I didn't think sounded as good as my modular setup. If I had only one tube-based rig, it'd probably be a pair of...

I wonder if this is a Synchrony decision, or GC/MF. With the 0% financing stuff, the merchant is usually covering the points on the back end. The banks weren't the ones carrying it.

I just saw a demo of a deep fake voice call, impersonating a help desk manager, telling people there'd been a breach and that they needed to log in and reset their password using the corresponding link that was texted to them. It sounded exactly like her, and made convincing reference to several...

Having a studio doesn't make you an engineer, and having a DAW doesn't make you a producer. It's almost never about digital, it's about people not knowing how to run their gear.

The Hughes & Kettner Access was a monster, but perhaps not all that common in the U.S. I gigged with one through most of the 2000s, and I never should have sold it.

I just view it as overhead. The cost of doing business. I only buy and sell personal gear, but as soon as you use Reverb or Paypal or whatever, they become commercial transactions. If I want my item to sell, I have to price it competitively. Unless I paid well below street/market for something...

Imma tell him I'm interested, but that I'm left-handed, and ask if he knows what it might cost to convert it.

Guitar players have our own idioms. I come from a classical background, so I could sooner play Yngwie and even Vai than I could EVH. It;'s more about some of the elusive phrasing than it is about chops. Joe has stuff that's very idiomatic to his style, and it's different than EVH's. I think...

Not really digging it. Even John 5's solo is pretty bland. I guess going avatar is one way to lose the weight. ;-)

If you're wanting a 2x12 Combo, the Peavey JSX 212s can still be found for reasonable prices, and cover a lot of ground. The built-in noise reduction is pretty useless though.

Seymour Duncan were doing amps for a while, back in the day. Seemed like a cool concept, but it seems like they had reliability issues. I can't remember specifically. Something was under engineered or something, and once that was addressed, they were fine.

I don't think he's ever released a live album where the vocals didn't get reworked in the studio.

Iron Maiden, Flight of Icarus. Live after Death was my first major exposure to Iron Maiden, and with many of those tunes I like the energy of the live versions more than the studio versions. Ditto for Kiss Alive! That album was my first major exposure to Kiss, and I knew those songs backward...