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I'll be damned if I don't leave I've got no tricks left up my sleeve I've got no jokes I haven't told. My talk is coming cheap, I think I'd better move my feet I've got no stories I haven't told. I got a line on a new job I'll convince them I'm no slob I can rake in the cash, hand over fist. I'm the one they need I'll work hard to buy my feed and Smoke my weed to pass times I won't miss. I'll find a place I can afford In a town that I can explore For trouble and a girl to call my own. With a hole in the wall and A drunk man in the hall I'll lock the door and welcome myself home. At times

Can I join the PM parade?

Played with the amp last night for 2.5 hours will no ill effects. I have the Mesa tubes in right now. Perhaps I'll check out the Ruby ones.

I figured it was a halloween costume.

Well, I put new tubes in last night and double-checked the board again. No burns, nothing. I actually have a good friend who works doing amp setups for studios, but he is in another state, so I couldn't solicit much advice from him. Anyway, he gave me 3 sets of power tubes. One AVS, one Mesa, and one Soldano (Ruby). I can't believe the difference in sound between them. Also, in doing research on this problem, I learned that Groove Tubes aren't really well respected.

Jason Bonham was in one of those "put together a super-band" shows and he came across like a spoiled brat. I'd take Dave Grohl over him for this gig any day, despite Jason being heir to the role.

I think dusty tubes could be it. I thought I'd had it on that long before (2.5 hours) and it had never happened. Mine get dusty too, as they are in an open-backed head. It smelled like hot something (electronics?), which had me really worried. But the smell subsided, so I guess it was just dust. I looked at the circuit board last night with a flashlight to see if there were any burn marks, but couldn't see anything -- thank God. I have a gig a week from Monday and my biggest fear is that it would pick that time to totally die.

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Honestly, I don't think it's that big of a deal. I guess you could run a chain to you amp input: Guitar--> OD pedal --> Amp Then run your other pedals through your effects loop. I assume these would work simultaneously. In terms of having enough cords, I just bought a Boss pedal board that came with all the patch cables to hook all your pedals together and a power supply that will run all of them. It was one of the best $129 I have ever spent. It's the Boss BCB-60.

Yep. It drove me batshit crazy. Crazy enough to convert the combo to a separate head and cab, which really wasn't that big of a deal.

Thank you for the advice. It is this amp, a Fender Blues Deluxe Reissue. I'll do the things you said. Funny thing about taking the board out....shortly after I bought the amp, the cab would rattle when I played a C. No other notes, just a C. After trying a bunch of other stuff, I wound up taking the "guts" out and putting them in a head and keeping the speaker and just running it like a cab. Soo....It shouldn't be too hard to look in. No gain differences or sound differences when playing. It had been on for about 2 hours and then came the smell, which quickly got stronger.

I did a little research on mytunes and it apparently no longer works with the current iTunes version. Thanks for the suggestion

I had a similar question in this thread. Personally, I have all of my pedals running through my pedal board. My guitar plugs into the pedal board and the board plugs into the amp input, where your guitar would go. A nice feature on those Ernie Ball volumed pedals is the tuner out jack. That way you can tune with or without any volume going to the amp, without rising bumping a tuner pedal and cutting your signal while playing.

I was playing through my Fender Blues Reissue last night and during one of the songs I started to smell something really hot. Like electrical hot. I saw no smoke, but could really smell it strongly. It got stronger and stronger while we were playing the song and seemed to subside after I was done playing. I only had the volume around 4, if that makes a difference. Is this the sign of a tube going? Could the whole thing be cooking? It's always been kind of a funny amp. Sure sounds great though.

I was gonna ask this in a new thread but....I'll save some space: Does anyone know of a good, free way to convert .m4p to mp3. I have purchased a ton of music on iTunes and want to put it on a new cell phone I got. I'm hoping for something faster and less wasteful that burning CDs and reimporting as mp3. Thanks for any advice.

A hole without a key If I break my tongue Speaking of tomorrow How will it ever come? Those lines are so beautiful and wonderfully ambiguous.

That's a really nice song. Are you running some vocal effects or stacking some harmonies? -- as a fellow musician/songwriter/home studio person I'm curious. Sounds very cool.

I'll add my story.... I was stuck at a dead-end job, six days a week. On the night of the 10th, I called into work saying I wouldn't be in the next day. I went out, got really drunk and spent the night with an ex-gf. I woke up, wondering what the hell had happened....then I turned on the TV. I remember telling my ex, "You don't have to go to class today." What a dark, horrible day. The tidal wave that 9/11 caused is immense. It's amazing to me how that day changed our foreign affairs and (somehow) led to war with Iraq, along with a totally incompetent administration. What a terrible blow t

Wow, those are beautiful. Very, very cool job.

I'll cast a vote for craigslist.

PM also, please.

I have an Ernie Ball Pedal -- it was around $100. It's been great. I have it first in my effects chain. Something I have found out -- volume pedals aren't really that good for modulating your volume in a "little up, little down" sense. They're better for on/off for switching guitars and for doing swells. Not really good for fine adjustments. Just my $.02 My board goes --> Volume Pedal --> Dan Electro OD --> Tubescreamer --> Tremolo --> Prunes and Custard --> Fender Blues Reissue Amp. I think (possibly) the only advantage to having your volume at the end of the chain would

Beautiful pictures! and a nice review of your trip. Glad it went well.

Via Chicago is a pretty great song and also relatively easy. 3 chords -- D, A and G. In that order.

What a fucking moron.