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Chrpno posted:Reminds me of that goon/bitcoin person who was going to buy the local theatre and show pirated movies on an office projector, with great plans for what kind of soda flavours and not much else, anyone know what I'm talking about? hell yes. http://www.buttcoinfoundation.org/bitcoin-community-spotlight-logansryche/
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Brawnfire posted:Imagine getting all cybertronned up just to sit in the back behind a drumkit and a foot of glycol fog. He’s so far back it’s practically offstage
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well why not posted:what am I even looking at here Local band with a song selection that would be exactly what you expect from them. If 80's-style rock and adjacent music is your thing, they put on on a good show playing it. A large chunk of the audience and crew for this video are friends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tc6UbEYI4M We were all there for filming this in November 2019; between all the bustle of the holidays followed by, well, 2020 that was probably the last time I saw many of them 
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Jul 11, 2021 20:51
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That looks so drat stupid. I loved it. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn7Gqv9vIgQ
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Musician's Friend will sell you this for a mere $8,320.00 https://www.musiciansfriend.com/bass/fender-custom-shop-precision-bass-limited-edition-master-built-by-kyle-mcmillin/
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Thermos H Christ posted:Musician's Friend will sell you this for a mere $8,320.00 We laugh but there's some gigantic boomer in a tiny hat somewhere in Cape May, NJ looking for the perfect bass for his Beach Boys (Mike Love era) tribute band right now who will happily pay that price.
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OutOfPrint posted:We laugh but there's some gigantic boomer in a tiny hat somewhere in Cape May, NJ looking for the perfect bass for his Beach Boys (Mike Love era) tribute band right now who will happily pay that price. That probably very well made, decent sounding hunk of poo poo has been on and off in my “targeted” Guitar Center ads for over a year. I’d guess they bought it at NAMM in January 2020 and all of the target market is either dead now or can’t afford it because their retirement ate it the beginning of lockdown and they panicked and moved everything after it lost all its value. It was on sale for like $1400 off a month or so ago. You’re absolutely right that some ding dong will finally see it and fall in love with their vision of having John Stamos drum for them. I say “targeted” because GC/MF *has to* know I’m a stingray guy, and yet they’re pretty sure someday I’m going to bite on that.
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It's the MS Word font that really sells it.
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Thermos H Christ posted:Musician's Friend will sell you this for a mere $8,320.00 i want this image as the header for my geocities page.
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Thermos H Christ posted:Musician's Friend will sell you this for a mere $8,320.00 Totally worth it since that bass is obviously stuffed full of cocaine.
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Today I got a double lesson in the following subjects: 1. Why you shouldn't inadvertently run an amp at 240V when it's set for 110, even just for a second. 2. What's inside a capacitor.  Our tech said it was the most catastrophic total component failure he had seen in twenty years of working on amps, but amazingly both the fuses and transformers survived so just needed a replacement cap soldering in and a shitload of scrubbing with a toothbrush to remove the debris before it was up and running again. Nobody will ever notice. 
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darkwasthenight posted:Today I got a double lesson in the following subjects: Hoooly poo poo. Someone got REAL lucky- last time I had an amp come through where someone did that the power transformer basically melted. Nice lookin guts too! Can't be a cheap amp- what is it?
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darkwasthenight posted:Today I got a double lesson in the following subjects: Fuuuuuck that's so scary yet so awesome. Was it just accidentally putting the power on 240 when doing QA or was this something from a customer who brought it in? Also, I do engineering stuff, would you mind if I showed my interns this picture?
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It's a Hiwatt Custom 20 and embarrassingly the lucky someone was me. All the models around the warehouse SHOULD be set to 240V default from burn-in, but you still gotta do those checks just in case... Got sloppy, forgot to look once, and BANG: magic smoke time. The other guys said everyone gets one at some point, just usually it's something silly like breaking off a pin in a tube socket and not potentially delaminating a transformer. Benched and tested it for an hour with no issues so I can unclench my butt I think. Edit: Spanish Manlove posted:Fuuuuuck that's so scary yet so awesome. Was it just accidentally putting the power on 240 when doing QA or was this something from a customer who brought it in? Yeah, just keep the company name out pls thanks. Not a good look! It's a backline and I was testing it on our 240 mains but didn't check the voltage selector before going hot - can't think why it would be set to 110 but end result was the unit smelt like Satan's rear end in a top hat all day. darkwasthenight fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Jul 14, 2021 |
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darkwasthenight posted:It's a Hiwatt Custom 20 and embarrassingly the lucky someone was me. All the models around the warehouse SHOULD be set to 240V default from burn-in, but you still gotta do those checks just in case... Got sloppy, forgot to look once, and BANG: magic smoke time. Do you work in Backline in the EU? Gonna need more cool amp porn pics if so
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Shouldn't the fuse have blown first?
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Fuses blow with excess current, not excess voltage.
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That's so annoying, can't we just pick one or the other? Like amps or volts, do we really need both? Also I bet that amp smells like coming home to home cooking after a long day at work. But your house is on fire and it's your partner that is cooking. Poor amp  Frying an amp is one of my biggest fears.
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Gramps posted:Do you work in Backline in the EU? Gonna need more cool amp porn pics if so I work in the Hiwatt UK custom shop so my pics are mostly of the obvious, but I've occasionally posted shots of interesting or rare models in the main Guitar thread. My favourite is still this one-off DR504 in white and chrome, included completely chromed chassis and transformers.  
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darkwasthenight posted:I work in the Hiwatt UK custom shop so my pics are mostly of the obvious, but I've occasionally posted shots of interesting or rare models in the main Guitar thread. Oh yeahhhh that's the stuff
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darkwasthenight posted:Hiwatt 
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darkwasthenight posted:It's a Hiwatt Custom 20 and embarrassingly the lucky someone was me. All the models around the warehouse SHOULD be set to 240V default from burn-in, but you still gotta do those checks just in case... Got sloppy, forgot to look once, and BANG: magic smoke time. Thanks and will do. It's not gonna be in a formal class setting or even in an email, just going to show them the picture on my phone and say 'this is why we double check things a million times, as even trained professionals get a goof up once in a while' It's a cool picture that I'm also hoping to use as a lesson to not fear loving up
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The head engineer who opened it up made me take a photo of him holding it up like a prizeweight fish for much the same reason. He was impressed he actually took it round the workshop in that state to interrupt everyone else and show them. The green circle is where the errant cap once was (well, the legs are still soldered in...). If you look carefully at the bottom preamp board there is another resistor leading to the valve bases (in orange) that is supposed to be parallel to the board. We think that got in the way of the cap shell taking off and took most of the force so got bent at right angles.
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Ahahaha that fuckin rules. In undergrad circuits lab we took apart a can capacitor like that because my lab-mate and I got bored. The TA caught us doing it and thought it was cool and let us keep going as he'd never actually seen the insides.
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I know this guy has popped up here before, but he's really gone over the loving edge now. AND posts it on his own YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_WLBbyg5DI Used to watch his amp repair/mod videos, and he's got a couple on old weird guitars and even guitar straps, but he has lost it over the last year.
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widefault posted:I know this guy has popped up here before, but he's really gone over the loving edge now. AND posts it on his own YouTube channel! a LOT of old timer repair guys are boomer chud weirdos. Sucks but it is what it is.
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Uncle Doug has, at worst to my knowledge, made a couple light boomer jokes about MY WIFE and besides that he's lovely and focusing his videos on the amp being repaired. Sometimes I put him on to go to sleep to.
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This is me. Every. loving. Time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_90uFCrWWY
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Wark Say posted:This is me. Every. loving. Time. lmfao true
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Wark Say posted:This is me. Every. loving. Time. I had a weird 'tik tik tik tik' sound appear at one of my bands' rehearsal place intermittently and it appeared to differ in volume based on where I was standing and which way my bass was facing. When it also appeared at my other band's rehearsal place with entirely different signal chain and, hell, different part of town I realized it was the heart rate sensor belt I was wearing that caused it.
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Ok that's probably the oddest source of noise I've ever heard about. I have accidentally left my phone in a recording booth and when I was looking at brainwaves I saw a weird blip that I couldn't figure out where it was coming from. I thought "oh well just gonna be one of those days, ok let me put on a new album to listen to aaaaand where's my phone? Oooooohhhhh" Other fun noise sources have been: fire alarm, a bulldozer, and HVAC systems
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I got an obnoxious beep in a bass amp from some flashing led glasses one time
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I used to get CB radio transmissions from a particularly irate trucker on a specific amp in a specific part of a friend's bedroom in high school. Just his side, though, and boy was he constantly angry.
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OutOfPrint posted:I used to get CB radio transmissions from a particularly irate trucker on a specific amp in a specific part of a friend's bedroom in high school. Just his side, though, and boy was he constantly angry. you sure it was a trucker and not satan, lord of darkness himself?
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One of my old watches would function as a 60 BPM metronome when it was too close to the pickups.
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Years ago I had a friend that would get a burst of noise on his computer speakers whenever he got a text message. Me personally I found out the hard way that new fangled led lights/dimmer switches cause great interference. Thank god I bought a noise gate.
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I had an amp that picked up a local Spanish radio station. Free backing tracks! 
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I love Gibson at NAMM right now. What's your line up change like Gibson? "Well, we got some new custom shop guitars based on people no one really gives a poo poo about!" Oh neat, what else? "Well those kids love that Slash fella so we got more Epiphone copies of his stuff!" Oh wow, that's impressive! "Yeah and to top it off we have a bass, but it's green!" loving sold! Edit: https://www.musicradar.com/news/gibson-2021-guitar-releases quote:No word on prices yet but think high. Historically accurate brown cases don't come cheap either! quote:The Collector’s Edition is limited to 19 Explorers and 81 Flying V’s [just like in 1958] syntaxfunction fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Jul 18, 2021 |
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