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The Zoo is great. So is the Budweiser factory tour and the Arch is cool too although I refused to go in it. Heights ain't my thang. It's getting bad here again regarding the coof. I wouldn't be surprised if they made people start working from hime again. To keep it on topic when I was there at the Bud factory tour I hit a music store a block away. I thought they were closed but the bars on the windows and steel folding doors are apparently a thing there once you get 1 block beyond the Bud factory campus/safe zone.

Glad to hear that. My wife was working from home for over a year. I thought we'd be at each others throats but we actually got along great. Seems we needed to spend more time together. I'm not worried about when she's retired anymore. Gas is about $4 here too for Premium. Diesel too. I use it in my tractor. I have the smallest Kubota makes. Takes me 4 hours to mow my place once sometimes twice a week. It has a bucket I take off when I mow and I use it a lot for everything around here. I guess I've traded my music for the country living domestic life. At least I don't have to go to KC every day and I do thank God every day for that. I am very grateful and very lucky. Regular gas is just shy of $3 for low grade here. It was $1.67.

I'm sorry to hear that. Are you ok? Last time I went was 14 ... 15 years ago. I'm good.

Sorry. Gas is back up to $3 a gallon and steadily climbing. Can't afford to drive there. I don't know what happened. It was $1.67 a few short months ago. The economy is dying again too and it was great a few short months ago as well. Much like the cause of all the problems ... I have no clue what's going on around me. I'm just Bidin' my time waiting for the hammer and sickle to fall.

If you order it now from Amazon you can have same day delivery by 3PM .... Just sayin'.

No. What I think he means is that even the most basic FREE to use forum software has basic Light, Dark, and Gray theme's for those of us that have a bit of trouble seeing the forum on our handheld devices which are what 99% of the world uses now and he's wondering what the ***** gives man? Am I right Zo? I think the same guy who designed X1's GUI is running the forum. Last time I said that when X1 came out I posted a pic of Marty Feldman along with the post and was banned for a week. So I better not do that again. But you could probably get away with it Craig. I triple dog dare ya!

Seeing how everything is overpriced and the government backed corporations suck the life and finances and future out of the population here in what used to be The United States of America I think you'd be better of buying something overseas where paying someone $.32 cents an hour actually is a decent wage and they still put a little pride in to their work as well and will actually work. Everything coming out of Mexico, Japan, and China far exceeds the overpriced garbage being produced here. But I could be wrong. I don't know.

I posted a reply but apparently it wasn't acceptable so ***** it. I tell you. The people running this place suck. I posted a reply saying I loved her and posted a link to her new release of House Of The Rising Sun. If you want to hear it it's on youtube. Apparently you'll have to look it up yourself.

Nice! I'm a bit concerned about the actual sound of the guitar being an annoyance. There's no chance of that with the yours.

I'm right handed but play left handed. It's a curse. Plenty of the right handed ones to be found everywhere. But it seems the only place I can get a lefty is from 2 non-returnable sellers on Amazon. IOW it's not sold by Amazon so I can't just return it. If you check the videos on youtube it emulates a Tele. And a bunch of acoustics. Then you can blend them. Great for recording. I wish I would have had something like this when I played live. What draws me to it now is it's getting harder and harder to play my real acoustic. Hurts my hands a lot. I always wished I could get an acoustic with a thin neck like this has. It's a modelling guitar. The sounds aren't actually coming from the body of the guitar itself. You can sit and play it but it's pretty thin sounding. It's amazing what they can do with modelling now. I can only imagine what's coming in the next 10 years.

What's sad is there are several Fender dealers here. One is 20 minutes from my house. Nobody has them and have no idea when they can get them ... but I can have one here by Monday if I order it on Amazon.

I'm jealous of you guys. New tube amps, new guitars. I got a leaf blower and a hedge trimmer today. Oh boy. I'd love to get my hands on one of these ... https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ASTeleNatLH--fender-acoustasonic-telecaster-left-handed-natural Doubt it will happen though.

Yeah. We're called husbands.

That's clearly photoshopped. I can tell by the tiny feet. ??????????

It varies by amp in my opinion. I've had 2 modelling amps. All the videos on youtube I saw made the Mustang IV sound great but in person it wasn't even close. The youtube vids I saw used the line out. I get the impression it was meant to be played through a PA and the actual amp side of it was designed as a PA. I found that to be the case with several different modeling amps I tried. The Champion on the other hand sounds and responds like a real/true amp. This guy does a great vid on the Champion 100. It's very true/accurate in response to gain on the amp and guitar volume. He also mentions it's limitations. I have zero regrets buying it. Wish I had more time to use it and wish I was in a band again to give it a real workout.

3 15s? Wow! In my last band I had to add a 15 to my Mesa Dual Rectifier. No matter what guitar I used (LP or Strat) it sounded thin. Absolutely no 'chug' to it. Sounded great once I ran the 15 through the external cabinet jack. We broke up before we got a chance to play out. The bass player had to move for work and the singer started his own business. Both quit just as we finished learning 4 full sets. That was the last band I was in 18 years ago up in Iowa. I passed on a metallic cream colored Kustom that had a single 15. What a warm clean sound. It was in bad shape though so I passed. The local mom and pop trade in place bought a guys entire collection of rare Kustom amps. 20 or so. The only thing he has left is 1 Kustom powered PA speaker. They were made near hear back in the day so the vintage ones are still readily available in this area. He became known for his vintage Kustom amps and became a Kustom dealer. He has most of their new line in his showroom. They sound good and are dirt cheap.

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.