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Interesting read in Premiere Guitar mag with Dirk Wacker doing a cheapo guitar rebuild just to prove a point. It's been going on for the past 4 or 5 months and he's a bit of an expert in sorting out telecaster noises and microphonics. Might be able to cull some tips from his articles. They're...

That's some of the best results I got too was the Hammonds. The powder burned off very clean and sharp.

Very nicely done and the laser work on the enclosure is razor sharp. Is that bare metal or backfilled?

Great vid and the line “The Brazilian accent is because I’m Brazilian” wins the internet for the day :)

Good point. HRD is the best selling amp on the planet. From my perspective I'm not selling pedals and I just need to see if the stuff I'm working or works and/or makes weird noises. That said the next up on my bench is the Maxon Compressor and am willing to go out on a limb and say it's one...

I don't have the stones to even try to replicate this one. James did all the wiring and no...its straight up raw wire. I'd finished the board and had drilled the enclosure and passed it on to James. Only to find out I'd whiffed on the jack placement. He turned a potential turd into artwork...

I'm gonna have to dig this out of the pile and revisit. I remember being totally underwhelmed by this one. Need to find out what I screwed up. And make no mistake, I'm a compressor junkie.

Those styrene caps look killer.

I have this janky old Ampeg G100 that someone gave me. Needed all new electros but there's not much to these things except they're VERY neutral. It can also get uncomfortably loud. It's solid state but breaks up in a very pleasing way and I know what it sounds like so it's a good reference.

All amps in general. I must admit I haven't fiddled with preamp pedals outside of standards like the BK Butler Tube Driver.

Honestly I've always been underwhelmed with anything in the main stage(s) by anything other than a 12AX7. It always sounds like it's a bit winded and struggling, if that makes any sonic sense. Kinda sterile. Now obviously ymmv.

And there you go...

Curious to see how this works out. I have mine facing the lamp with most of my different builds but maybe more random light and higher sensitivity? I've been close on builds but never seem to able to get the roundness of the original. My builds tend to sound more on-off-on-off. Or just too weak.

RJ is one of those guys that could plug a garden rake into a toaster and get a good sound...

I’m servicing an ancient Tube Driver and it was gooped on the backside of the board (??!!)