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I’ve been listening to the Tone Talk podcast as of late and in one episode Dave Friedman explains exactly how EVH ran his variac wig his amps. What Van Halen did, if you did not know was to take a variac and drop incoming voltage to the amp to around 90VAC instead of the 110-115VAC that was...

Registered again. No longer have access to old email to recover that account. But im the same guy. Lots of real life crap in past 7 years. Separation, band mate dies, couple failed relationships, divorce, reformed first band with original members minus 1. Other band on hiatus Career changes...

I’m starting over on my amp and my old computer took a dump losing so May schematics. The only 3 channel schematics I’ve been able to find online that look halfway legit is the 11 page pdf marked Preliminary. I can’t recall if my old copy was the same. Are all marked preliminary and changes...

Hey guys. Tragedy hit close to home yesterday. I found out around 4PM CST that my guitarist Ronnie in LaSanche had family which were murdered in the church shooting in Southerland Springs, Texas. His Sister in law lost her father, mother, brother, sister in law who was 8 months pregnant, 4...

MXR M109-3001-104 Recap by Bjorn Haga, on Flickr Recapped my old 6 band MXR graphic as It has been non functioning for 13-14 years and sounded like a blast furnace when it did work. I am interested to see if the Sprague 192P's will be an upgrade to the stock caps used.

I will be pulling double duty at this show. My band LaSanche plays second. LaSanche will also be backing the vocalist for Blood Storm like we did last year in Maryland. This is all the information I have for the show. Contact Last Nightmare on Facebook for more details

My bassist, drummer and myself did live session work for Philadelphia's Blood Storm last September in Maryland at the Shadow Woods Metal Fest. We headlined the closing night and it was really fun. I have never played a decent outdoor gig where the stage sound was at all usable. The sound man...

I flying up to Philadelphia next Thursday to rehearse with a band I'm doing live session work for towards the end of August and again later in the year. The drummer for the band has a Triple he is going to let me use. Which is righteously awesome, especially since I can use my same floor noise...

I went through my stash of 12ax7's and came up with some cool UOS 12ax7's that I am trying to identify. I will take a few pictures in next day or so and post them so maybe we can figure it out via getter and halo construction. One tube I am curious about is one that is labeled National in red...

Here is a topic I rarely if ever see in music related forums. How much should you get paid as a performing artist? Whether it be a solo gig, coffee house gig, original artist, original band, cover band, tribute band, it doesn't matter. I have been doing this so long now I am at a point that...

I was wondering if there is a need to have a 12AX7 in preamp slots 4 & 5? I ask this because in the Mesa Bass 400+ it is suggested to install a 12AU7 in the driver socket. If I am not mistaken, the driver is the same as a phase inverter? My understanding is that the 12AU7 has lower gain than a...

I actually got this pedal two weeks ago. I wanted to give it a couple weeks on my pedalboard before reviewing it. I am seriously digging this pedal. It is voiced very well for heavy music. I dont play other styles so ymmv. I have been using the CFH wah since 2008 and the Zakk Wylds wah took a...

Would someone please point me to this thread? I can't seem to find it. I am also not wanting to necro-thread. I understand the mod defeats the Bigfoot? Is there a work around for this? I still would like to use and need to use my footswitch. I would also like to use the Main output as...

I have noticed something with my amp that I would like some advice on how to killl, or I'll just have to deal with. This concerns the red channel on my 3ch dual. Settings are as thus(so we are on the same sheet of music): Presence: 10:00 Master: 1:00 Gain: 11:30(gain pot is 1M) Bass and...

I have long since stopped trying to emulate anyone else's tone, but I have to figure this guys tone out. For the life of me I do not know he gets the base of his tone. Well, a Mesa 2ch. Dual is a given. This is what Piotr has used for almost every recording until he switched to Laboga. Even...

Video someone took of my band's last gig. http://www.youtube.com/embed/MA2tkPO1mTk

My band LaSanche is playing The Korova Basement this coming Saturday as well as the following saturday at same venue. LaSanche is Blackdeath metal. The Korova is on 107 East Martin St., San Antonio, TX 78205 The 19th we go on at 11:00pm. I would really like to get as many heads out for this...