The Friendly 12bar Blues Guitar Forum

Hi No, nothing changed in pots and caps. As long as caps has has the right value and pots works good I don´t see any need of changing them. But I changed the grounding system according to "guitarnuts" tips http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/shielding/shield3.php. I also moved the tone contro...

Hi Guys I have now updated my Squier Affinity strat with pickups from a Fender American Standard (Alnico V pickups) , that I bought second hand. I also "hum"-shielded the whole pickup cavity with self-addisive Copper foil. The sound of the guitar is now better and its not that hum sensitiv...

Hi VB
A little bit of brute force and bending sideways is often needed to disconnect the "female" lugs on speakers.
Often you need to use some sort of plier to bend/pull the lugs of the speakers "male" lugs.
/Kalle

Hi guys
Check out the 9 blues lessons on You Tube with Brian Robertson :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAE3NMERwGw
Its really nice blues playing hi does
/Kalle

Hi VB Just taking out the tubes is normally not that dangerous, even less if you use a glove. And just taking out the tubes from the sockets and put them in again will "rub off" any oxide in the contact points. If you use an good electrical contact cleaner, spray it on the tube pins before...

Hi Guys There has been discussions in a swedish guitar forum about buying good (chinese built) electric guitars to very low prices ( around 200 euro). Several musicians has imported guitars and tells that they are surprisingly good. Here are some examples: Very good new Phil Pro Stratocasters http:/...

Hi Michael Yes, I was educated as an electronic engineer in the late sixties, in the transistor era , before IC´s come around. And was working with analog electronic designs during the seventies and eigthies, when every electronic engineer built there own HiFi equipment. Designing with tubes was alr...

Hi Guys If you remember, I have had a Ibanez Valbee guitar amp for a while. The Valbee is a small guitar "Class A" tube amp : Output power: 5W@4 ohm, Speaker: 6.5" 4 ohm Speaker, Tubes: 1 6L6GC & 1 2AX7[dual triode]. The "block diagram" looks like this: http://i1340.phot...

Hi Guys If you want to know more about Valve Guitar Amp design check this http://www.valvewizard.co.uk/. About the Fender VibroChamp XD, SuperChamp , they has not Valves in the Pre-Amp section. The Pre-Amp section has Operational Amplifier IC´s (check this schematics: http://support.fender.com/schem...

Hi Guys
Have seen this ?
http://whereseric.com/eric-clapton-news ... lowhand-35
Some good songs and stories.
/Kalle

Merry Christmas to you all from a very snowy Stockholm.
/Kalle

Hi Guy´s I have modified my Egnater Tweaker 15 to a Tweaker "25". There is guy (Jesper Karlsson)in a swedish guitar forum that is an expert on Guitar tube amps. Hi repairing tube amps ( for shops) but hi also modifying amps of all sorts. Hi latest modifying projects are two Klemt Echolette...

Hi As some of you might remember I have a Laney DB150 Bass Head since a year o two back. But I haven´t had Bass Speaker Cabinet to use with it , mainly used it for recording (it has a DI output) or playing electric guitar through the tube pre-amp (not a bad tube amp sound at all). But last Sunday I ...

Hi Michael
I like it. Even if it´s not BB it has a bit of BB feeling in it.
The guitar sound is close to a BB guitar.
Kalle

And the best thing is having an understanding wife.
She never complains when we get noisy in the home jams.
She even encourage me to get more musical friends and activities.
/Kalle

Hi Everybody Even if I haven´t been active on this forum for a while, I have a good musical life. Joined a choir(meets every week) and a jam session rock group (meets every second week) at work. And I have been able to occupy one more room at home with my guitar amps etc. (The wife and I have 4 &quo...

Hi Matter of fact: In switch position 2 and 4 on stratocaster two single coil pickups connected in parallell, thats why the lower resistance. You might also find that the guitar will hum much less with the switch in these positions. Two single coil pickups in parallell will act as an humbucker, but ...

Hi
The problem was the latest version of Flash player 11.3 , had to un-install and install an older version 10.3.
Now it works...

Kalle

I have problems with Firefox after upgrading to latest release 13.01.
The "player" in Sound Clic wont work and also similar "player" at other musical sites.
Has anybody else experienced this problem.
Just now I am using Google Chrome or IE9 where everything works..
/Kalle

Hi everybody As some of you know I joined a small "everybody can sing" mixed choir at work some months ago. We have been rehearsing every monday evening. Today we had our first apperance at work and it went very good and we got nice applauses from the audience. We did the following songs: ...