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Good call! Longtime fan of Vinnie Bell!!!

His "underwater sound" is great, but his tone and playing on the "Twin Peaks Theme" was beyond cool!

My vote would go to the two most famous guitarists from Funkadelic, the late great Eddie Hazel (my personal hero!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoULS9zBRYE And his replacement, Michael Hampton (notice the pre-Van Halen Superstrat!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eR4aQrYozY Both great guitaris...

Peavey does that often- .047uF 400V or 630V bypass, then they use the low voltage caps afterwards to lower costs.

Good Luck!

If you've got a Presonus or ART MP preamp, a 12AY7 or the ECC803s will very much help the tone produced by the preamp. I like the 803. It doesn't quite make it in my JCM800 preamp, though. Sounds pretty fine in an SLP.

I've used the ECC803s in both my preamp builds and some amp heads (I isolate my heads, so microphonics are not an issue). While I have yet to have a defective ECC83s, I have had 3 bad ECC803s. Two exhibited an extraordinarily bad hum after a bit of use , and one had a short inside the plate that mad...

Nice guitars, ER.

I have a Strat loaded with three lipsticks from early 60's U-1 and U-2 guitars and they sound glorious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdPvN7HOLh8

By the way, a good example of this PTC high end decoupling occurs on the Rivera-era Fender amps. I think warming might have been a side effect and that the actual reason for the PTC caps was to eliminate cross coupling in the spaghetti-like tangle of leads inside their higher gain amps! :) I believe...

I think the plate to cathode cap doesn't lend that "tone turned down" sound to the preamp, but rather warms up the stage. The stage doesn't seem piercing, and still has a nice round top. When I first began building rack preamps in the 80's, I was frustrated at how nasty the top was. As to values in ...

This:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eR4aQrYozY

Man, that intro!!!

Love the Strat with Super Distortions- I plan on building a clone. World class vocals to boot.

The more I watch and listen to them, the further up my totem pole they travel. If I'm not careful, they may replace Pink Floyd.

If it's any help, my favorite niche in building is preamps, everything from acoustic to low gain clean to high gain. I've found that high end attenuation gives you a much more pleasing tone than simply building a JCM800 preamp in a box. That tends to give you a sound like you get with a direct out o...

There's a thread going on the Acoustic Guitar Forum where two posters have answered CL ads for Gibson guitars, only to be redirected to Quibids.

Hope this helps! Bill.

If I may suggest something on the subject of cameras- and this is no way meant to be offensive: If you do put in video monitoring, have a test subject go round and film them while they do it. Try to get the cameras positioned so that they will actually get good coverage of the suspect's face!!! The ...

I use Klein, Imperial and Craftsman (made by Klein, I believe). The Imperial auto stripper does a very good job for me, though I haven't tried it on teflon.

Good Luck!

Perhaps you might look into motion sensor lights. My sister has had several cases of prowlers, and motion sensor lights essentially put an end to them (as far as she could tell). I believe there are solar-powered motion sensor lights if the area is too far from convenient wiring. I live in a rural, ...