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    Doing your First Setup on your First Guitar (Stratocaster or S Style) Part I

    Is that the hammer with the removable hammer heads? Mine came with black plastic, yellow plastic, brass, & aluminum heads. I used it ALLLLLL the time on everything lol. I would also suggest picking up 1 of 2 things. Or even both. Either an Ernie Ball Power Peg string winder or the...
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    Show Your Number One Amp

    Here it is finally! And permanently! 2024 Hot Rod Deluxe! Now with blue jewel instead of the stock red. The white bulb was too bright through the blue so I added a blue silicone bulb cover, as well. The last 2 pics are before and after the silicone bulb cover. On the left would be the former...
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    NAD! 2024 Hot Rod Deluxe!

    Picked this up around 6 weeks ago while it was on sale at AMS. I knew my bday was coming up and I wanted a new amp so I took a chance on this one without even playing through one first. 😮🤣 So its been put up for the last 6 weeks. My bday is in 4 hours(central time) so I figured it's finally...
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    Monoprice/Stage Right 15w combo chassis removal

    Well this has gotten interesting. I bought some EL84 bias probes and returned them because they measured cathode current not plate current. Or it included screen current, not just plate current. So today, I did some measurements & calculations to figure out how my amp is biased. My...
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    Now This Take Some Brass Balls

    Hmmm. 1000 pts for a pack. I'd possibly put the colored circles that represent the ball ends on my truck window but that'd be it. Again, 95% of people wouldn't know what they were and would likely assume it's related to LGBTFABCDEFGHIJK because of the rainbow colors. You'd have to know what...
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    Now This Take Some Brass Balls

    Oh yea? I might have to try those. I had wanted to try some reinforced strings since my high E's always break at the ball end. One did yesterday. Then I ruined the one I got out to replace it when I kinked it on accident. I keep single 9s and 10s for just that reason. I learned that early on...
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    Now This Take Some Brass Balls

    Hmmm. I wear my D'addario t-shirt that I got for free all the time. But the average person wouldn't know that since it only has the multi-piece 'D' on the front. So you'd have to know the logo to know it was D'addario. What sucks is D'addario freaking deleted my account after I ordered it...
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    Your 'Weapons of Choice' for today....[pics preferred]

    Same as most days. The Sunburst Indio 66 DLX Plus. New bone nut a couple of weeks ago. It's got CTS 500k volume pots and 500k no load tone pots. A Seymour Duncan Antiquity neck pickup and Seth Lover bridge pickup. Faber reliced tailpiece and locking studs. Gotoh reliced ABR1 with Faber...
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    "Clean" Boost...

    I have an EP Boost. Just a volume knob. I also have a Demon FX Dual Boost. It's an EP Boost and a Fortin 33 Boost in 1 pedal. Neither of those have tone knobs either. The 33 Boost does its own tone shaping in the circuit. It cuts A LOT of bass and modifies the signal quite a bit. It's...
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    Warren Haynes - Million Voices Whisper

    That right there. The Brothers have always been known to have THE very best players in the industry on their stage. Duane & Dickey were the beginning of it all. Then Dickey & Dan Dickey & Derek Dickey & Warren Derek & Warren And all of the other Brothers that played for 1 show or 50 shows. Zakk...
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    What did you do to your guitar today?

    Strings on the sunburst 66 DLX. That's it for guitars. Edit: or not. I massaged a couple of slots on the nut and bridge of this guitar, also. When I play the 7th fret on the D string(A?) with some volume, it makes either the G or B ring out in an extremely high pitch. So I massaged those slots...
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    Wiring a switched jack for external cab

    Well that was eventful LOL! Pretty sure I almost smoked the amp. I got no sound when I was done. I checked a few times, so I figured if something wasn't connected right, I for sure blew it up. Put it back to stock with no change. Replaced the 12ax7 in V1 and no change. Replaced the 2 EL84s...
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    Monoprice/Stage Right 15w combo chassis removal

    Almost killed it a 2nd time. Wired in a shunting jack for external speaker(s). When I plugged in, I got no sound. This time, I had to wait until the tubes warmed up and started producing sound but they never did. Tried it twice more. Nothing. So I removed the jack and tried it again. Still...
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    Wiring a switched jack for external cab

    Looking to wire in a switched jack that connects the stock speaker when no cable is installed and disconnects it when a speaker cable is plugged in. I know a 13a Switchcraft jack will work but I've also read that a 12a will work. 13a has a normally open and normally closed switch on it that...
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    Monoprice/Stage Right 15w combo chassis removal

    I almost killed it yesterday. D'oh! I forgot I had hooked up the Hot Rod Deluxe to the speaker in the MP15 earlier in the day. We'll, I didn't plug the stock speaker back in when I unplugged the HRDlx and I turned the amp on. Thank GOD I realized what I did the moment the switch flipped so I...
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    Plekking

    You have to be skilled to use one. Just like any CNC machine. Any old fool can't just walk up, put their guitar in, and get a great fret job. In reality, 99% of people wouldn't get a functional fret job from one without training and acquiring the proper skills to operate one. A Plek tech can...
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    Show Your Number One Amp

    Here's the current #1, on the left. Monoprice Stage Right 15w 1x12 combo aka the Laney Cub 12R with a spring reverb. Pulled the chassis last night. Replaced power tubes. Rebiased. I made a thread about it all. Yes it's full of surface mount parts. No I don't care. It sounds good. That's all...
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    Monoprice/Stage Right 15w combo chassis removal

    I pulled the chassis from my amp last night. Finally got around to doing it and it was extremely simple. 6 screws and it slides out the back. Once I got it out, I decided to compare my pcb's to those in the Laney Cub 12R firsthand so I know for sure whether they're the same. Facts are facts and...
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    Show Your Number One Amp

    It's crazy how much better all of my pedals sound through this. On the Monoprice 15w combo, all of my OD's get me the same tone. On this? They all sound different! Finally! That's why I have so many. I'd buy one and it would sound just like the other 7. So I'd buy something else. And it...
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    Thin neck or baseball bat neck?

    I prefer bigger necks. The guitars I play most all have pretty decent necks. Between 24 & 25mm at the 12th fret.
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