Whoops! I forgot to post these here. Happy Valentine’s Day!

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独自規格満載なYAMAHA製ギターに亜鉛合金タイガーネックプレート(汎用規格品)は使えないの？ _ ギターいじリストのおうち

独自規格でギターを手掛けるYAMAHA(ヤマハ)はネックジョイントパーツも独創性満点！裏を返せば亜鉛合金タイガー等FENDER互換汎用ネックプレートは基本的に搭載不可！？本当にヤマハに亜鉛合金タイガーは装着出来ないのか調べてみました！

I'M IN LOVE - yeah I'm a believer!

1963 #Gibson#GA79 RVT Stereo amplifier (with 1972 #ES355 Stereo guitar).

If you are like me you never paid much attention to these vaguely funny-looking mid 60s Gibson stereo amps. To me they never looked like "real" rock n roll amplifiers, they looked more like the console record player my parents had in their wood-paneled mid mod living room back in the 60s. Part music box...but mostly furniture. I keep wanting to flip up the top and throw on a Neil Diamond LP!

But, I was dropping off some amps for servicing with my amp tech @marshalllespaulfan yesterday, and he had this one in his shop, in from another customer, and we tried it out with my Stereo 355...and all of a sudden EVERYTHING in my life made perfect sense!

This amp was MADE for this guitar...and I mean that quite literally. You plug it in using a special stereo "TRS" cable, switch the amp to "stereo" mode (although you can also use it in "mono" mode with a regular guitar and cable) and it's wired to give you the neck pickup in the left channel and the bridge pickup in the right channel. So you can set different volume, EQs, and effects for each pickup! Once each channel is dialed in, you can just flip your pickup selector between a grungy dark rhythm sound and a bright overdriven lead sound. OR...play them both at the same time on the center position, and have reverb and trem on the underlying bassy tone, but a crisp, clear, un-effected bright tone cutting through at the same time! It's GENIUS.

Because of its funky stereo wiring, my 355 has never been very heavily played 'round 'ere. The best you can do with it on a "regular" amp is plug its stereo cable into the two inputs of the same amp and even then it just sounds like a "normal" guitar. Without a TRS cable, only the neck pickup works on a "normal" guitar cable. So it's essentially useless. But with an amp like this, you can make it do SO MUCH!

I think I have found my next amp acquisition "quest"! 😉

Two of the three PCB's that make up the piece of rack gear I call my DI box.

on the left, is a clone of the EQ section from a 70s Sunn Coliseum Bass amp, Half assembled.

It is a 4 knob eq, with controls idiosyncratically (but accurately) labeled high, mid, hi bass, and low bass. the high and mid controls each have a 2 position frequency switch. The result is a very versatile, but still easy to tune tone control.

On the right is my standard line output pcb, fully assembled, except for the gain setting resistor.

this is a transformer coupled design, which uses a small power amp, to ensure it cant be overloaded. I didn't know it when I designed this, but this is almost identical to the design used by urei in the late 1970s, notably in the 1178, and la4a.

It has better isolation and a lower noise floor then a modern integrated design, and is actually cheaper then the IC solutions sold by That crop.

I used the same pcb with a different transformer as a reverb driver in my rack mount spring reverb.

If you have ever listened to my music you have heard both these circuits on synth, guitar, bass, and even my drum machines. I've also sold several identical units to local studios.

also, the spring reverb is my go to reverb now. So its on most tracks as well.

Found some pictures I took forever ago that don't really fit with the rest of this blog but oh well, I feel like posting them anyway

They weren't supposed to look this cool and hipster-y but I wanted to try that developing film with instant coffee thing and didn't know what was on the rolls

『ベースの修理』

20230410

ジャンクのベースを買いました。

I wanna make a stupid purchase of an 8 inch guitar speaker to replace the one in my current amp. I dont like the one i have as its kinda lacking in the mids and highs during distortion on the clean channel it feels and im hoping the upgrade will make it better. if it doesnt then ill go fuck myself ig

any opinions on this? the speaker is 50 bucks

" b o n e s h a k e r s " Kemper Profiler Head

1951 Bronson Melody King

2 6V6, 12″, Alligator Tolex. This is a Magnatone Troubadour variant. Excellent for recording.

1959 #Princeton 1962 #Tremolux 1998 #CustomShop '60 #CustomTele NOS

As you can see I have been monkeying around lately with a new backdrop for gear photos. I am trying to up my game this year in preparation for THE Southern Ontario guitar-related social event of the summer season (which of course is the @dlott65 Productions Presentation of a @chriswstringer8 Joint, the 2023 Edition of the Official Union-Sound, Toronto Guitar Friends' Friendly Guitar Gathering, Gabfest, and Geek-a-thon), which is coming up really soon!

If this year's gathering is even half as much fun as last year's it will be a memorable day indeed. I am looking forward to seeing everyone (both returning faces and new ones) and of course seeing (and photographing!) what everyone brings for show and tell! 😉

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Art post! 🎨👾 A wee pixel guitar amp for the timeline 🔊 and hope you are having a swell weekend! 😁

1965 Fender Super Reverb Amp