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otgordin

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  • Birthday 10/28/1983

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    electronics, guitars, hardcore, punk, blues, fingerstyle, Russian folk music

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  1. SUCCESS!!!! The tubing worked like a charm. All put back together Compensated ebony bridge Chrome top-hats Wilkinson locking tuners and graphite nut. Added a jackplate b/c the original directly mounted jack was causing cracking. I wish I still had recording gear... the guitar now sounds fantastic. Thanks for the help guys. -V
  2. thanks for the feedback. jigsaw puzzle indeed. tubing seems like it would be less prone to catching than fishing line. I'll have to drop by the aquarium store over the next few days. realistically, I won't have a chance to play with this again 'til the weekend.... so still plenty of time for head-scratching and strategizing. -V
  3. Hi All, I have had a beat up 1960s Harmony Rocket III for a while that I finally decided to fix up. Two pots were dead, and the rest were scratchy even after tuner cleaner, so I replaced the entire wiring harness with new pots and caps (along with locking tuners, a compensated ebony bridge, graphite nut, strap locks, and a new output jack). The guitar now sounds and feels great. However, I'm having trouble getting the wiring harness back into place. When I took everything apart, I tied fishing line to the old pots thinking that I would just pull them back out through their holes. Now, however, when I try to pull everything back into place the 6 pots keep catching and tangling on the strands of line making it impossible to get them to the holes in the top. I don't have a picture of it, but I re-used the coiled shield / wire guide from the old harness in order to make sure things lined up right. Any advice you guys could give on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated. I tried searching the archives and didn't find any help. Here she is before I got started. Here's a shot of the pot holes. -Vadim
  4. no, there is NO guitar signal making its way through. When I get the chance I'll disassemble the chassis and take some pics. Any particular precautions I should take when checking the connections?
  5. CE account? Would any ole capacitors from Digikey work?
  6. hmmm.... I'll have to find myself a decent multimeter and check it out then. What's a ballpark figure for the cost to replace the caps in one of these? [a guess is all i'm looking for] Thanks. -Vadim
  7. Hi, I have a 1960s silvertone 1482 that I got at a garage sale 6 years ago. I've been abroad the past 4 years and it spent that time in my parents' basement. Now, when I turn it on, the jewel light comes on. However, the amp pops and cracks and does not respond to any change in what i do to the inputs (guitar1 guitar2, mic) or knobs on the front. To the best of my knowledge, the amp worked fine when I put it down there. I have a degree in engineering with some circuits/microcontroller experience and am decent with a soldering iron, but have never worked on tubes. Any help troubleshooting this old gem of an amp would be very much appreciated. -Vadim
  8. Last night, I brought out my Classic 50 4x10 to practice after getting fed up with the sound of my drummer's Crate I had been using. I haven't used the Peavey in 4 or 5 months, but back then turning it up past 3 meant shattering ear-drums in the basement we practice in. Last night, after letting it warm up, I flicked the standby switch and found that volume on the clean channel was significantly reduced and the lead channel was more or less inaudible. After another maybe 20 minutes of fiddling around with knobs and frustration I got both channels at workable levels but the volume knob was at 10 (peaveys go to 12). I ended up playing through the crate for fear of damaging something. This is my first real tube amp and my first time running into this after two years of use. Is it gonna go back to normal, do i need new tubes, any suggestions? Thanks -Vadim
  9. my friend is selling this through our local Sell Center. its an UNPLAYED 1992 Ibanez RT-450NT. Came from a dusty hole-in-the-wall guitar shop where its been sitting for the better part of a decade. peace -vadim http://cgi.ebay.com/IBANEZ-ELECTRIC-GUITAR...1QQcmdZViewItem
  10. what's the deal with the two different bridges?
  11. eric, while i do agree with you about the technical purity of studio vs. live albums... i think the fact that artists don't get a 5th try at that solo, intro, or chorus when they are on stage only adds to the energy. musicians... even legendary ones like page, plant, and co... are still human and do make mistakes. aint nothin wrong with approaching perfection without actually attaining it. maybe i'm wierd in this sense, but i prefer the rougher sound of live albums to studio albums 9 times out of ten. southpa... amen. i've only seen pieces of the concert, but even at that it was incredible. didn't robert plant tour with The Who a few years ago? wonder how that went :-/ probably amazing. -Vadim
  12. lol, can one of the admin change the title of this poll... seeing as I can't spell.
  13. i'm assuming a few "purists" are gonna get pissy that I would ask this question, but the fact remains that they are both amazing live albums of Led Zeppelin material. FWIW, the first time I heard Celebration Day off of Live at the Greek, I got chills. Just wanted to see what you guys thought. -Vadim
  14. http://www.hunterinstruments.com/tt3135.mpg
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