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With modelling now and my aging ears it's impossible for me to tell. And it probably was when my ears were good but that whole 'yeah tubes man' thing kicks in. The best sounding amp I've ever heard was a Kustom 150 with a 4 x 12 cabinet. Metallic blue tuck and roll. Kustom's were all CCR used back in the day. I couldn't tell the difference between it and a vintage Fender tube sitting next to it. But the Kustom had 0 work done to it in 50 years. I 99% guarantee you won't get that long of a run with any tube amp.

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That whole tube thing is hard to overcome. The best thing that could happen is to find out one of the tubes is bad in his amp to scare him away from them. The amp modelling is very limited on the Champion as well as switching fx. But what is there is excellent imo. I ran some pedals through it and really liked it. I hated my Mesa amp after I had it a while. I played out with it for 9 plus years iirc? Thin sounding and the overdrive was harsh and 'glassy' sounding is the best way I can describe it. But I kept telling myself that tube sound is what I should have. Plus I had to like it because of the money I dropped on it. I would have loved gigging with this Champion 100. Small and light. All digital fx. No banging on it to get the spring reverb working. Good luck with whatever you end up with.

I love my Fender Champion 100. It's a basic modelling amp. A poor mans Mustang modelling amp. The Mustangs have bluetooth and presets and tons of effects but sound horrible IRL. I bought the big Mustang based off some youtube vids and returned it 3 days later. Horrible sounding amp and the software simply did not work. My Champion 100 is a 2 x 12 100 watt amp. Blows my old Mesa Dual Rectifier Tremoverb clear out of the water. They make a Champion 40 that's a 1 x 12. The 100 was $350 and the 40 was $250 last I checked. Btw the Mesa was $2500. I had a Marshall Valvestate 80 iirc?? Never could warm up to it. Humbuckers seem to do well through those but not single coils. At the time I playing a strat with EMG's. That's good of you to help him out. 👍

I just read a forum post by an amp tech. He said it's the hardest amp in the world to work on. His problem was a shorted power tube that fried a zener diode. Looking at pics online it looks like the ac power uses a removable cable. Was it totally dead as in nothing lights and tubes don't glow? If that AC cord socket on the back is mounted on a pcb it may have a cold solder joint. I've seen tgat a lot on office equipment I used to service where that socket was mounted on a pcb. Never happened when they had wires soldered to it. Of course ... you could always order a new amp on Amazon to, you know, compare voltages? Then return it because, you know, it was DOA. J/K. 😜

I liked it. Listened to it twice.

Yepper. The stereo thing was cool when I tried it but it would have been better to just run through the monitors. We weren't allowed to though. They had to be all vocals with heavy reverb. No guitar allowed on the drummers monitor system! Hah. Except for his, er, my, drum machine. I still have that Alesis. Last time I looked they still make it new.

I used to have a Peavey Chorus 212. The solid state one not the valve one. It was a true stereo amp with stereo fx and pre-amp ins/outs. I made a small cabinet with a 12 in it and wired a connector in the back of the amp so I could quickly disconnect one of the 212 speakers and connect the external and I would sit it on the opposite side of the stage because the other guys had a hard time hearing me especially on larger stages. Stereo delay and stereo chorus sounded great but overall it was a thin sounding amp and I eventually got rid of it. The rhythm guitar, bass, and keyboard players liked it. But the drummer didn't like the fuller sound and since it was his band I had to scrap the idea. Toward the end of our time together he discovered I had an Alesis SR16 drum machine for recording. Amazingly he suddenly developed arthritis and said the band was done unless we switched to the drum machine because he couldn't lift, haul, or play his drums anymore. He immediately connected it to the PA blowing the 15s in both monitors multiple times from the overpowering kick. After 10 years together we broke up shortly after the drum machine incident. Hah.

Yeah. That would suck. 😁

That's the point I was making about our highways being asphalt. Just having an initiative where all new roads must be concrete would significantly improve things. I'm always astonished how my propane tank is actually cool to the touch. It's painted white. I think it was glossy at one point but it's old and looks semi to flat now. I've gone out and touched it when the actual temp was 105 F and it was cool. It sits in my back yard wide open. Direct sunlight hits it from sunrise to sunset. Btw ... It's been in the mid 80s here and raining almost nonstop this year since the cold snap broke.

Way back when 9/11 happened here Jay Leno interviewed a scientist on his show. Famous Asian physicist. Can't recall his name off the top of my head. He said the Earth's temperature increased by several degrees because all the flights had been grounded during 9/11. The particles they put in to the atmosphere reflected the suns rays back in to space and in a matter of days it had cleared up and more radiation was getting through causing temps to rise. How long have planes been grounded and people not been allowed to travel in their cars now? Over a year? Maybe this warming trend is the norm but we've been holding it off with pollution. He also said there was a push to make highways out of concrete rather than asphalt because the lighter concrete reflected sunlight and asphalt absorbed it and remained hot. Basically our entire country is laced with a solar oven that retains heat for extended periods of time. There are coming sense things that can be done to help but again it all boils down to money and those in charge with power. Why should we paint our roofs while the government is systematically paving our country with heat absorbers? Why is the burden always on us when in reality it's the government causing and allowing industry to create the problem.

The entire continent of Africa used to be a tropical forest. Long before the worlds population and industry grew. It has almost nothing to do with man. There are just as many legitimate scientists who have proven that co2 has little to do with temperature changed as those who are taking advantage of peoples fear to keep a steady flow of grant money coming in. These people are not your friend and do not have your best interest in mind. It's all about power, control, and money. You really want things to change ... tax the living if you see Kay out of corporations who do not create clean energy or make truly biodegradable packaging. Not the people who have no choice to but to use those things to survive. Give tax incentives to industry for being clean and "eco-friendly". Don't double, triple, and quadruple tax the population who really has no control over it. That's if you really want people to be free and live, which of course they don't.

I upgraded to Melodyne Studio 5 today. Only 2 days left for the sale so I figured I'd better jump on it. I haven't used my DAW since January but that's beside the point. I needed it damn it. I'm REALLY gonna regret it when my wife sees the cc bill. Speaking of regret, I burned up my Dremel I got for Christmas of 76 and replaced it too. Oh ... and I got myself the 4K import special box set edition of Willy Wonka. And I'm feeling a Lefty Fender Acoustisonic in my future as well. I'm taking you guys' advice from another thread and just buying what I want then begging for forgiveness afterwards. I'll keep you posted. If I'm able.

I'm part Mohawk and Leni Lenape. When I say I'm from Jersey and the East coast ... I ain't joking. My bloodline has been there for hundreds if not thousands of years. My ancestors were never freed. They had their land taken which stretched from the southern US up through Canada on the East coast and forced on to "reservations". If it's truly about making wrongs right then you can't stop at a single point in history and pick one particular group. Almost every group of people were enslaved at some point throughout history. Anyhoo. I'm certainly not against the spirit of it but I would take it a little more seriously with a more serious title and better definition. It sounds like a 6th grader came up with the name and in my opinion it's embarrassing.

No. It's a great song and it was relevant. Nothing more nothing less.

😄 It was painful to install too. It's murder on the knees even with knee pads kneeling down for hours. It took 2 days. I looked in to making IRs on youtube. If I can remember how to get my video back on my daw I'll make one. I know what's wrong. The Intel video is stuck at 4K and but it sees my monitor as 1080. IOW I have a 1/4 of the screen displayed. All I can see is the upper left corner of the login screen which is a blank area. I forget how I fixed it before. I think I did a blind login then a shortcut to resize windows or something like that. I really wish I could find a G.D. video card that's not triple what it should be. It's b.s. and pissing me off. I'm dead in the water right now.

I've never made an IR before but I'll give it a try and post. It would be cool to use it on my recordings. First I have to fix my DAW. No video output. I remodelled my bathroom a while ago. It's huge with a vaulted ceiling too but no crown moulding. It has almost no reverb. I'm pretty convinced it's the crown.

I gutted and remodeled the front entrance to our house. I ripped out the dated tile floor and put new down, patched the walls and repainted, stripped and restored all the dark stained doors and trim. Everything is the same except I added crown moulding on the vaulted ceiling and added a decoupling layer under the new tile. I finished painting the entry doors and reinstalled them. It's quite a process. I had to spray 5 coats of primer because I couldn't get the good stuff from Sherman Williams and then I did the normal 3 coats of enamel. When I closed the doors it instantly turned in to a reverb chamber. It blew my mind. It was not like that before I did the remodelling. The only change was the addition of the crown moulding. That has to be it. I also added a plastic decoupling membrane under the tile but I doubt that had any effect. I use it on all my tile jobs and never noticed a sound difference. I sat in there on the floor playing my acoustic for an hour. It sounds incredible in there. Here's a couple pics of the orange membrane and the finished room with a view of the crown moulding. The front door is still original. It's the last thing I need to restore and refinish.

Don't know if you remember pet rocks. I had one of these ...

Do a search on youtube for DIY LED infinity mirrors. I plan in making a couple and putting in my home studio. I've seen mirrors, clocks, table tops, and I think a big VU meter also. With these cheap color changing/light show LED strips now you can make some really cool looking stuff. You can buy them pre-made. I've seen some cool ones on Etsy but were expensive. DIY LED cubes are cool too. You can make simple ones to really advanced Arduino based ones.

I prefer Crappie myself.

And who could forget X2 ...