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#108,802
dukeorock said:
Wow, that’s crazy!
You may know, I still dabble in electronic music and hardware has seen a huge resurgence in the past 5 years, which I totally get. I do lots of live, real time sampling and mangling on hardware. Main two pieces are from a company in Sweden called Elektron. Cool stuff. That said, I recently dug an old mid 90’s Korg Trinity Plus out of the closet just for kicks. It’s still more powerful and sounds better than most of the newer hardware. You just gotta erase all those dated presets and make your own. The only improvents in modern hardware I see is a more straightforward interface with less menu diving. But the sound of 90’s era EMU, Yamaha and Korg haven’t really been improved upon, IMO
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Have you ever used a Roland TR808?
 
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Ok here I go.......I don’t like to ask too many questions but I posted this very question in amps and cabs maybe a year ago. I have a Ampeg B4R which as some may know is basically a SVT 4 without the tube pre section or as I call it the poor man’s SVT 4. I got it for dirt cheap which should have been a red flag right away and I wasn’t able to play through it when I bought it but for a $100 it was not a big deal. Anyhoo I got it home plugged in and started jamming when I got a feeling like little tiny hairs were being pulled out of my fretting fingers! I swapped basses and got the same feeling so I shut it off and double checked my wall outlet for proper ground, it was good, I plugged into my backup amp which I’d been practicing through for months and no (shocks). I plugged back into my Ampeg and got the same tingling feeling. Needless to say I have a sweet boat anchor sitting on top of my cab now. Any ideas what it could be? I’ll just say that I’ve only used it one more time at a practice space and I played a active bass that I borrowed for the rehearsal and had no issues. I don’t own an active bass so I do not use that amp now. I thought about buying a wireless set up and forgetting about having it looked at but I don’t want someone else to get shocked.
 
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ToddOfThunder said:
Ok here I go.......I don’t like to ask too many questions but I posted this very question in amps and cabs maybe a year ago. I have a Ampeg B4R which as some may know is basically a SVT 4 without the tube pre section or as I call it the poor man’s SVT 4. I got it for dirt cheap which should have been a red flag right away and I wasn’t able to play through it when I bought it but for a $100 it was not a big deal. Anyhoo I got it home plugged in and started jamming when I got a feeling like little tiny hairs were being pulled out of my fretting fingers! I swapped basses and got the same feeling so I shut it off and double checked my wall outlet for proper ground, it was good, I plugged into my backup amp which I’d been practicing through for months and no (shocks). I plugged back into my Ampeg and got the same tingling feeling. Needless to say I have a sweet boat anchor sitting on top of my cab now. Any ideas what it could be? I’ll just say that I’ve only used it one more time at a practice space and I played a active bass that I borrowed for the rehearsal and had no issues. I don’t own an active bass so I do not use that amp now. I thought about buying a wireless set up and forgetting about having it looked at but I don’t want someone else to get shocked.
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It's prolly worth having it looked at to see if it's sumpin' simple or if you should wear gloves when playing through it.
 
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GonePlaid said:
It's prolly worth having it looked at to see if it's sumpin' simple or if you should wear gloves when playing through it.
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Thank you, yes eventually I’m going to have it looked at. I was hoping someone would have an idea of what it could be so that I don’t end up paying what I could pay for a new head.
 
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ToddOfThunder said:
Ok here I go.......I don’t like to ask too many questions but I posted this very question in amps and cabs maybe a year ago. I have a Ampeg B4R which as some may know is basically a SVT 4 without the tube pre section or as I call it the poor man’s SVT 4. I got it for dirt cheap which should have been a red flag right away and I wasn’t able to play through it when I bought it but for a $100 it was not a big deal. Anyhoo I got it home plugged in and started jamming when I got a feeling like little tiny hairs were being pulled out of my fretting fingers! I swapped basses and got the same feeling so I shut it off and double checked my wall outlet for proper ground, it was good, I plugged into my backup amp which I’d been practicing through for months and no (shocks). I plugged back into my Ampeg and got the same tingling feeling. Needless to say I have a sweet boat anchor sitting on top of my cab now. Any ideas what it could be? I’ll just say that I’ve only used it one more time at a practice space and I played a active bass that I borrowed for the rehearsal and had no issues. I don’t own an active bass so I do not use that amp now. I thought about buying a wireless set up and forgetting about having it looked at but I don’t want someone else to get shocked.
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PM me
 
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TOTALLY dig our rehearsal space.... repurposed old post office from the 30s.....
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#108,814
GBassNorth said:
I'll never know. But my experience in life leads me to believe pretty strongly that people who are dishonest never really change. Something akin to a leopard and its spots. :rollno:
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What he was doing wasn't technically illegal, so far as I know. He was banking on the small amount of leverage he had, knowing what the instrument was selling for and seeing if he could get a slightly higher price. He was just an opportunistic middle man. Call it shady if you like, but it's just arbitrage. That's how the finance industry works, for the most part. And, I better stop now, or I'll end up on a soap box.
 
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#108,817
Chucky Stiletti said:
couple more.....remnants of an old logging town called Boulder Creek View attachment 3353478

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place is sanctioned by the E Clampus Vitus....California (Southwest really) "Secret" Society..:roflmao::roflmao:

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That's a great place! The painting leaning up against the wall in the last photo appears to be sideways. Assuming it's a painting of variously wrapped butts. Or maybe mushrooms.

Can't go there if you wake up there and never leave. It must be a Tuesday morning phenomenon.
 
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#108,819
ToddOfThunder said:
Have you ever used a Roland TR808?
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Many, many times! And TR606’s, 707’s and my favorite, the TR 909. I tend to avoid those sounds these days as they’re just so ubiquitous. I work in one of two ways (my electronic stuff is pretty weird, just as a warning). On my ‘SingleSource’ music, every sound you hear is me playing bass. It’s fed into a sampler and chopped and mangled into a ‘song.’
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On my other electronic stuff, I program all my own sounds from scratch in a couple different synths, including drum sounds (Elektron Analog Four, Make Noise 0Coast or Korg Trinity).

 
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ToddOfThunder said:
Ok here I go.......I don’t like to ask too many questions but I posted this very question in amps and cabs maybe a year ago. I have a Ampeg B4R which as some may know is basically a SVT 4 without the tube pre section or as I call it the poor man’s SVT 4. I got it for dirt cheap which should have been a red flag right away and I wasn’t able to play through it when I bought it but for a $100 it was not a big deal. Anyhoo I got it home plugged in and started jamming when I got a feeling like little tiny hairs were being pulled out of my fretting fingers! I swapped basses and got the same feeling so I shut it off and double checked my wall outlet for proper ground, it was good, I plugged into my backup amp which I’d been practicing through for months and no (shocks). I plugged back into my Ampeg and got the same tingling feeling. Needless to say I have a sweet boat anchor sitting on top of my cab now. Any ideas what it could be? I’ll just say that I’ve only used it one more time at a practice space and I played a active bass that I borrowed for the rehearsal and had no issues. I don’t own an active bass so I do not use that amp now. I thought about buying a wireless set up and forgetting about having it looked at but I don’t want someone else to get shocked.
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Chucky Stiletti said:
PM me
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I was going to write something about grounding issues and watching out for puddles of Gatorade spilled near the amp, but it appears that @Chucky Stiletti will just directly give you a correct answer.
 
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