oh man so somebody fell on hard times -- walked by the pawn shop, there's a rather nice (epiphone) les paul for way too much money in the window next to a really nice marshall (for way too little money). seriously, though, i just bought an amp yesterday for good money off somebody, if i didn't, i'd be very seriously considering storming in there and getting it, it's criminally underpriced unless it's either broken or not what it looks like. #guitar#amp#marshall
I tried re-seating the tubes to stop the slight, intermittent, rustling noise.
It got gated and spitty. Just guitar/amp/speaker. Turned off and on again, this came back after a few seconds.
So I changed out the power tube. No longer spitty.
Still rustles a bit sometimes. #guitar#amp#tube#EL84#GearSquad
@eyesquash I want to know more…what exactly is going on with how this works? When you say “it rustles” do you mean it is cutting or muffing the notes? :blobcatcoffee:
#GearSquad,
Dumb question from a #bass gear n00b:
Why are bass amps so many more #watts than guitar amps?
The dinky head I ordered says 200 watts.
The Orange micro terror bass lunchbox #amp says 500 (the guitar version, just 20).
Is there a good place to read about this? A quick search didn't help me.
Scratched an itch this week where I replaced a fairly old MAMP app with ~70 lines of docker-related configuration files that create 3 containers (and 1 of those could easily be removed, it's just for convenience).
In particular I'm happy that the DB files are no longer in an app-directory (/Applications/MAMP/…) that may or may not be backed up, whereas everything in my home-directory definitely is, and I can easily run mysqldump.
One of the benefits of our recent move into a bigger space is that I've been able to set up a workbench for electronics again. My first project has been revitalizing this LM386-based amp that was one of my first builds some years ago. It's based mostly on Beavis Audio's Noisy Cricket, with a few small tweaks.
I'm looking to get away from #Yamaha / #Ampeg and replace my BA210v2 #bass#amp.
However, I do really like the sound.
I found the #Genzler Magelllon 800. It sounds pretty good. Has two sculpting options from scooped to vintage plus a flat natural tone. Plenty of power.
Main issue is that it's clearly made overseas and with foriegn materials.
I don't know if there's any way around this. My best bet would be to seek out used ones.
I just read that #guitar#amp#wattage should be twice that of the #speakers, and that if too low, the sound will be muffled.
This may explain the #tone I get from my 5 watt tube amp through a Fender GE-412 300 watt cab.
That’s… not the case. A good speaker should as happily produce it’s ‘optimal’ sound at 1watt as at it’s power rating. We hear differently at different pressure levels but that’s our ears lying to us.
Speakers rated at half the power of the amp driving them are likely to get damaged (which is a legit sound, ‘cone cry’ can be a desired tone, but it’s not the result of things working ‘as they should’)
If it sounds muffled something else is going on. Large cabs have more bass so the amps tone and gain should be set appropriately.
There could be a mismatch in the ohms between the amps transformer and the speakers, which can affect tone more than you would think.
The speakers may also be damaged by running at max power for too long so they aren’t responding well at low power. They could also be crap speakers (no shade).
@ayo I used to have a some more guitars (2 ironbirds and a gibson fying v), but this one's the only one I kept. The lack of time, motivation and commitment wasn't making me keep them around. I got back about 1,75 times of what I'd spent on them, so that was good.
The les paul in the photo was sold as an Ibanez LP copy. It says "Made in Japan" on the metal neckplate, but I'll never know for sure. Got it for 200€ many years ago, which was a good deal for how it plays/sounds.
#guitar#amp#valve Anyone with an Epiphone Valve jr? I turned mine on for the first time in a couple of years last night and the volume was way down. Working but very low volume. Is that likely to be the power tube failing?
I earlier this week needed to restart a server with docker on it. The service controlling docker (amp) would not start anything because it was thinking the containers already existed. I found them under docker ps -a as "Removal in progress".
Much googling later I found a nice stacked command to remove them. Nope, ZFS kept complaining dataset does not exist. I tried to create them, then found some had dependent clones. It was a resolvable rabbit hole. Eventually I just renamed the containers and vowed this ZFS on Ubuntu on a whim was just a bad idea. I'll rebuild that server soon with a more traditional FS.
Also, I hate when a simple restart (read task) turns into a big hours long task.
@zta
I run in a VM environment, but this looks good as a possible replacement for my docker VMs (Ubuntu with docker installed). The issue above was with a management software AMP that is for gaming servers. It uses docker under the hood to manage and isolate each server. It won't work with docker on a different device, only locally. So #lightwhale won't work for this case.
@TDP4 Ah, I see. But yes, #Lightwhale was exactly built as a painless replacement for Ubuntu with Docker installed, so here it will definitely make life easier ⛱️
I still got the read the Verge piece on #Google#AMP, but yeah, as a developer who worked with publishers quite a bit, I never encountered anyone who liked it. The benefits were minor (besides SEO 💩), technically messy and complex; and the non-tech/monopoly/political aspect of it… Very glad it’s gone.
There's nothing surprising about the intention of #bigTech companies to keep and expand their #monopoly.
Don't be fooled - they're doing everything for their selfish interests. Benefit for society usually comes only as the byproduct, even though their mouths are full of it.
I'm glad #Google failed with their #AMP project, and that we're still free to choose how we want to build our websites.