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I am getting them, too. I have also been getting emails from some other Forum members, the same emails basically. I believe they are some sort of Outlook virus. Matt Farrow ------------------ Matt Farrow Marlen 9-string 6+2 Kustom K150 http://www.skybolt6.com/images/marlen_small.jpg http://www.skybo...

I am getting them, too. I have also been getting emails from some other Forum members, the same emails basically. I believe they are some sort of Outlook virus. Matt Farrow ------------------ Matt Farrow Marlen 9-string 6+2 Kustom K150 http://www.skybolt6.com/images/marlen_small.jpg http://www.skybo...

I have a friend in a band in NYC down here in NC playing a gig a year or 2 ago, and at soundcheck, his Fender amp all of a sudden started making some horrible farting noises. Turned out one of the filter caps had broken off the board in the cap pan. I put in a new filter cap the next day and he was ...

No way to tell EXACTLY what's wrong without a good look around. My vote is for a bad solder joint in the phase inverter, or a bad phase inverter tube. I would take the amp to a qualified technician and tell him exactly what you posted here. That should be enough of a description to get him going. Go...

TUKI makes an excellent cover - http://www.tukicovers.com

I have 2 of their covers and will probably order another.

Matt Farrow



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Matt Farrow
Marlen 9-string 6+2
Kustom K150

http://www.skybolt6.com/pharaohamps

Not directly steel-related, but a good antectdote: I went to see a band a few years back, can't remember their name, but it was a standard 4-piece blues outfit, rhythm guitar and lead vocals, bass, drums, and lead guitar. Apparently they were waiting on their lead guitar player to show up (you know ...

Hamilton, to answer your questions - the brown Bandmaster, Pro, Concert, Super, and Twin have the "harmonic" vibrato, that is to say the 3-tube vibrato circuit. The Vibroverb has the simpler output tube bias modulation vibrato, which changes the negative bias on the output tubes. The Princ...

Ha, ha! I'm the WORST steel guitar player in the ENTIRE universe! I think you'd be better off asking somebody who actually knows how to play! http://steelguitarforum.com/smile.gif Anyway, if I can help, I will. I've sure gotten a lot of help here and I'll do my best to answer any questions you might...

You're right, ajm. The Super Reverb and BLACKFACE Vibroverb (1x15") use the neon build / photocell tremolo (optocoupler.) (So do most of the blackface and silverface amps, exceptions include the Princeton Reverb and the Vibro-Champ.) The BROWN Vibroverb (2x10") uses outpuit tube bias modul...

Dan - the brown Pro is a 40W combo with 1x15". It's sorta similar to the Vibroverb but the brown amps are kind of peculiar. The tone circuit uses a funny tapped pot and has a very interesting sound, plus the brown amps (for the most part) have a Presence control, which IMHO is very nice to have...

The bidding war between the last 2 bidders smells suspicious to me. One has 1 feedback and the other has none. Look for this guitar to be relisted. If it is then they were probably "shill" bidders: fake ebay users who bid on auctions to drive the price up. No offense meant to the bidders i...

Not to step on Dan's toes, but the Line6 MM-4 Modulation Modeler doesn't have an envelope filter (auto-wah.) It DOES have several types of chorus, phaser, flanger, tremolo, panner, Leslie, and rring modulator, though. The FM-4 Filter Modeler has all the auto-wah you could ask for. It has a very conv...

I'd have to check with some of my "elders" but AFAIK the "tone ring" is a sort of adaptor to let you use different speakers in the same cabinet. For example, you would use a tone ring to put a 12" speaker in a Showman cab (1x15") or to turn a Bandmaster (2x12") cab...

From the March 1997 issue of Guitar Player magazine: <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR><SMALL> Q: How did you start using a flatpick with finger picks? A: Not having to change picks made it a lot more convenient for the Guit-Steel. I tho...

Sage, thank you for the kind words. I'm not always on time, as I'm sure Gary Dillard will tell you! But I try to be. Right now I'm concentrating on pedals for guitar players and don't have a lot of time to do repairs, but I'm happy to help steel players in any way I can. I am working on a "mode...

I believe that the plastic "pearl" covering is called "Mother Of Toilet Seat" because years ago, TOILET SEATS were covered in this stuff! I have actually seen old toilet seats covered with "pearloid" Pyralin! So there you go. On another note, anyone know where I can pic...

Tube amps need to have a load connected to their speaker outputs at all times, for the safety of the amp. Also, if you connect two amps outputs together like that, a portion of the output from the amp that you're using may end up feeding back through the amp that you're not using and cause its outpu...

The "bowl of Jell-O" may not be that far-fetched... There are older reverb units (not so many here, but more in the UK I think) that used a water tank and a set of piezo transducers for reverb. Problem is that water molecules aren't that elastic at low fequencies, so you have to modulate a...

Chris, to answer your question, the cathode current is equal to the plate current plus the screen current. In an old 50W Marshall especially one with no screen resistors, the cathode current will be off from the plate current by perhaps 8-10mA. As long as you take this into account when biasing the ...

I once tok some sitar lessons from a guy, and the Indian sitar pick is really cool - it's made from wire, and it goes over your fingertip, it's hard to describe. I think they're called "mizrab," and they let you play upstrokes and downstrokes. I still have one left (lost a couple over the ...

The "crumpling paper" sound can come from a few different places - I'd check the 100K plate resistors on the preamp tubes (these are the brown cylinders with brown, black, and yellow bands on them) because they can absorb moisture (esp. in the south where I live or Hawaii...) and will even...

Man, what a can of worms this topic is! "Bias" in a tube amp output section is just that - it is a fixed DC voltage that is either applied to the control grids of the tubes or developed across a resistor and capacitor in the cathode circuit. It is a means of determining the operating class...

OK - here's the scoop on Deluxe Reverbs. Fender wanted the loudest, cleanest sound that they could get in these amps, so the tubes are run fixed bias, (stiffer "envelope" of attack and decay) and are run at about 415 VDC on the plates of the tubes. The DESIGN MAXIMUM for a regular 6V6GT is...

Well, guitar players are a pretty traditional lot - most guitarists want guitars that haven't changed in design since the late 1950's!!! So the Gizmotron, being unusual and innovatove, not to mention expensive and unreliable, quite failed to spark the public's interest. Oh, well. The Mu-Tron III is ...

I have an early Musitronics "Dan Armstrong" Orange Squeezer compressor, great for that Steely Dan sound on guitar. Mu-Tron / Musitronics made these for Dan Armstrong for a while. I also have a Mu-Tron Octave Divider, which sounds truly amazing. The "famous" Mu-Tron units were the...