Not sure what happened this week, but I've become the half-way house for wayward effect pedals.

A super cool MXR Distortion II from way back when. When what? When pedals were held together with 8 big old screws and had their own 120v cables, that's when.

Two fun repairs on some gear from Electro-Harmonix.

After huffing only a small amount of paint thinner (this is another lie, I'm out of paint thinner, do you have any?) the original black case revealed itself.

I get to see a ton of cool gear, but this one is pretty special. A real-deal 1964 pre-CBS Fender VibroVerb with the original speaker and tubes.

I tend to forget that once upon a time "Solid State" meant "State of the Art."

Don't take anything for granted, and make sure that even your mistakes are valuable. 

The clean and dirty channels sounded just like I thought they would, but I was surprised by the absolutely cavernous reverb.

This 1979 HiWatt DR504 was actually a lot of fun.

Here's one you don't see every day. An Engl Straight 100 from Germany... with a schematic from Germany.... in German.