Baloney Balderdash

Yeah, injured his shoulder really badly, when he instinctively tried to catch his falling old original Ampeg VST head at a gig, which left him invalid for a while, and ultimately caused him becoming addicted to painkillers, an addiction he later got out of, and unable to gig on a more serious level again, why he started painting instead as a creative outlet. Moral: If your just about 1 Ton heavy old tube head falls from the top of an 8x10 "fridge" cabinet don't try to catch it, least of all in one arm.

Hello - Lionel Richie

Doesn't it seem strange they are not showing in the reflection of the chrome? Who took the pictures then? They did obviously, but also it is quite obvious that they are in fact vampires, trying to lure in victims to bloodlet. On a more serious note, that looks an awful lot like artificial relicing there, it doesn't match with the condition of the rest of the bass and finish. In other words, it's a scam!

I just recently bought an EHX English Muff'n, already owning the Black Finger (and previously owned, but being stupid enough to sell, the LPB 2ube, 2 channel/stereo tube preamp, where you could bridge the 2 channels and use it as tube overdrive as well), tube driven optical compressor (though I use my Black Finger with the compression dialed very low, basically never kicking in, more so as tube preamp stage, dialed in with the input gain driving the tubes to just on the verge of breakup, as an essential part of my always on basic "clean" tone), in the same series of big 2x tubes pedals. And I am truly impressed with the English Muff'n, this pedal is an astonishing sounding overdrive (despite the Muff moniker it is actually a Marshall-esque voiced tube preamp/overdrive). Unfortunately though it is quite noisy when engaged. However I just swapped the 2 stock EHX 12AY7EH tubes with 2 EHX 12AX7EH tubes, and beside the pedal obviously not being capable of quite as low gain overdrive settings but on the other hand also being capable of higher gain overdrive/distortion as/than before, it is actually also a whole lot quieter (as in much less noisy) dialed in to deliver about the same amount of gain (9 o'clock Vs. before maxed gain knob) as before the tube swap (relative high gain overdrive (but not distortion), and not any more noisy than your average drive pedal), but also the drive it delivers is considerably tighter sounding, which I prefer. So unless you need just breaking up/light tube breakup sounds and prefers a warmer more mellow tone (still plenty of warmth though, just with a slightly more growly character) I can warmly recommend swapping the 2 stock EHX 12AY7EH tubes with higher gain EHX 12AX7EH tubes (or whichever brand 12AX7 tubes you prefer). Perfect for classic traditional stoner and doom rock. In any case I can confirm that tube swap seems to make a substantial difference to this pedal. This is how the pedal looks (not my specific unit, just a random Google photo of it): It has now become my main pre-reverb overdrive pedal in my setup. Here is a pretty great YouTube demo of it, used on bass: I am interested in hearing from other people having owned, or currently owning, and eventual actively using, this pedal, or other from the same series of big 2 x tubes EHX pedals, and their experience with them.

AI is painfully stupid. If you ever read any AI generated text you would agree. Also I am inclined to believe that it is just a lazy seller, rather than a scammer, but I guess there is really no way to be 100% sure of this, other than actually buying and hoping it is not a scam, and that way getting either confirmed.

And what exactly is your actual point with this, in relation to what is actually discussed? :

So the sound we get doesn't actually reflects (reflects, as in resembles, not the physical phenomena reflection) how the strings vibrate at all?

But the pickups do pick up the vibrations of the strings, right? That is how we get sound.

Except that is not how resonance works. It goes both ways. The specific way the string's vibrations makes the wood resonates reflects back and affects how the strings vibrate accordingly as well.

Idiot! !!!Me Playing THE DEVIL's Advocate!!! !!!Me Playing THE DEVIL's Advocate But With THE OPPOSITE Opinion!!!

First single from Alan Sparhawk's (Low) upcomming album "White Roses, My God" that is out on the 27th of Septermber. Just released today!

Money, Money, Money - ABBA

Don't know if this counts, but I have my two 28.6" scale Ibanez Mirko Basses, respectively a 5 string and a 4 string, tuned in a tenor bass tuning and strung accordingly. The 5 string Mikro Bass is strung with Elixir Nanoweb guitar strings of the gauges: .080 - .062 - .046 - .036 - .026, and tuned in G standard tuning, that is 3 half steps above the upper 5 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning. Using only the stock bridge J pickup, wired directly to the output jack socket. "Mr. Growly - The Noodlemancer" : And the 4 string Mikro Bass also strung with Elixir Nanoweb guitar strings, of the gauges: .068 - .052 - .038 - .028, and tuned to A# standard tuning, that is one half step above the upper 4 strings of a 6 string bass tuned in regular B standard tuning. With an EMG Geezer Butler P pickup wired directly to the output jack socket. "Dud Bottomfeeder" : These are my main instruments of choice, and I play them through an always on 1 octave up effect, blended with parallel clean signal, for an effect somewhat similar to that of an 8 string bass (with pairs of respectively bass and octave strings), using a custom made Toneprint on my TC Electronic Sub'N'Up Mini for this: Very cool. With that tuning are you planning to use it as a slide bass/guitar? Also what is the scale length?

Reverse orientation P pickups is definitely the way to go. The traditional orientation of a P pickup actually emphasizes the tonal difference between the lower thicker strings and the thinner higher strings, whereas in reverse orientation this difference is somewhat cancelled out and you get a much more balanced and even tone across the strings/fretboard. But yes, I do love the sound of P pickups too. It's just that Leo got the orientation wrong. Just like he notoriously confused vibrato with tremolo.

No, that is not how this works! Or you might as well have used a regular Midi pickup. And no one claimed the latency was 0. But you do save the latency of the tracking otherwise needed with a regular Midi pickup. And this system does actually work perfectly, what doesn't work however is the people who invented it pulling their shit together and getting the ordered builds done...

Fight for Your Right - Beastie Boys

Ashdown ORIGINAL HD-1 H x W x D - 89 x 220 x 209 mm, which translates to approximately 8.7" wide.

Though you could with some right claim that the latency is several years to forever.

The First Five Minutes After Death - Coil

That Jazzmaster looks awesome! Mind though for obvious questionable safety reasons I wouldn't want to play a guitar with spikes like that.

It worked for Sid Vicious...

Poop Ship Destroyer - Ween

Grim Reaper Blues - Entrance

This is f***ing awesome (playlist of the full album "Our Raw Heart" by YOB )