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Once about 20 years ago when plane flights weren't always full, I was on a half full flight from LA to Newark, and there were several guys sitting in the back and chatting, mostly older, a few wearing those satin tour jackets (do those still exist?) Eventually I figured out that it was Les Paul...

Almost all 4.7 nF (0,0047 micro-F, same thing) capacitors are non-polarized. Anything that says "Film capacitor" is non-polarized. That one would work, but its voltage rating is excessively high which makes it bigger and more expensive, as JKos noted. If you only buy one, the expensive part...

All of the big 19-inch racks have been gobbled up by bitcoin miners to house servers/mining machines. As a result, rack music gear has gone out of style because there is no place to put it.

I'm trying to figure out where the Talking Heads put forward the "myth of Soviet military danger." Probably Life During Wartime, though that doesn't actually mention Russia/the USSR at all. Like many entries on the list, it's just off base enough that I think the list could be real - someone...

I wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of Merle. That was probably the Stranglers, given their place next to the Klesh. It took a google for me to figure out that "Kenet Hit" is Canned Heat.

There are some good reasons for instruments to have an impermeable polyurethane tone-trapping hard-as-nails finish, ya know.

Beyond your choice of P or J bass, the next most important decision is: As a bass player, you will need headgear. Should you wear a hat or a fascinator for the royal wedding, and how tasteful or outlandish should it be? And WTH is a fascinator anyway? Read for advice: What Makes a Fascinator...

If you go straight to the Google Images page (google.com, then click Images), the search box has a little icon of a camera. Click on that to search by image - either upload an image or paste a URL. The problem, in this case, is that the google images search results aren't very helpful. Mostly...

Further searching for Barry Ford, returns Invalid Link Removed which says "More pics of Barry Ford's F-style mandobass, including construction Webshots - Tonquin Valley, Jasper National Park, Alberta ". The page helpfully tells you how to find within the page in Netscape or Internet Explorer, so...

Reverse image search with tineye.com shows the photo was once at Link Removed with filename Link Removed. The site itself was quite old as it says the original maintainer passed away in 2006. Those links are dead but the Internet Archive has archived the page at Dbass. The image itself is not...

I just watched a concert film of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, filmed 2017 in Copenhagen, and the keyboardist had a prominently visible Mellotron. I think it was probably a newer model and not sure if it was a full-on tape Mellotron or a sampler, as it did not seem to have the lower enclosed body.

If you are going to keep the Boss FET switching circuitry, then I believe you will need to replace the tactile switch with a SPST momentary normally-open footswitch. Something like this: Link Removed

AFAIK, a major point of a right-to-repair law is that the manufacturer doesn't have to make it trivial to attempt your own repairs, but they won't be able to make it impossible. Take iphones as an example. Opening them up and replacing components with 3rd-party equivalents you buy on Amazon or...

fdeck's calculator, which he posted a link to above, shows a nice plot of the excursion as a function of frequency for both the idealized pure frequency case and a "waveform" model. I don't know all the details or how empirical the waveform model is, but it makes a good visual comparison. In the...

Use a CHORUS pedal during the chorus. Doesn't anybody read the labels anymore?