Recent content by dspellman

Not surprised that those went quickly... GC has some Agiles in their used section (they usually have, like, two) this time around, and most of the prices are pretty near the new price charged on the "balsa wood and spit" site. I'm pretty well stocked at this point (I'm ordering up an AL-3200 with a Floyd...

I was at the LA Amp show yesterday as well, but I had to make a fast tour through and leave. The RedPlates have been seriously good amps for several years now; they've got a good formula for the whole line, but I was especially impressed with some of the little open back 1x12s. I didn't bother...

In a couple of ways, this is an interesting forum. One is that there's almost no mention of modeling/modelers/modeling guitars, etc., and no separate forum for any of that. Even MLP, that bastion of tradition, now has a separate area for modeling. And the attitudes and comments coming in about...

Craigs listing is gone. What WAS it?

I have no idea about the amps; I've yet to hear them in person (and I'm not in a hurry to do so). I just got the impression from the thread title: Spider V: The next generation of awfulness. That it was the just-released amps you were bashing. The toanz in that video are unwonderful, but there...

I've been both. I've got a pair of EVJrs, one modified (Mercury Magnetics mod), one bone stock, and it has a on/off and a volume control. I've got stacks of old tube amps that are generally pretty basic. Then again, I have older tube preamps (Mesa Triaxis, Carvin Quad-X) that are pretty...

My suggestion would be the M22SD (the standard "T" model M22 is, I agree, a bit weak). I think it's a properly raucous, killer bridge pickup that's one of the best, coil tapped, that I've heard. I'm not sure about the comparison to the Super Distortion, however. I have a DiMarzio Super...

The Spider series of amps help propel Line 6 to the largest market share of any amp manufacturer. 38% of the overall market, which is huge, as of a couple of years ago. The Spider series was an enormous wakeup call to the rest of the industry. Fender was forced to overhaul its DEC series and...

It was partly about getting the original engineers for Line 6 back, partly about getting extra funding for upcoming Line 6 projects, partly about favored access to Yamaha electronics and engineering, and very little about changing distribution. For now, anyway.

You should check out the Epi Valve Junior -- I think that has your preferred level of uncomplication.

My black one has the Kahler Flip-Lock (they made other kinds of string locks, still do, but no Flip Locks). We put both of them on the PLEK machine a couple of years ago to see if we needed to do any milling, and they were dead-nuts perfect. I love the DC160 (what's the trem on that?) that's...

I have two of these! That one, I'm guessing, is a set neck, right? In 89 or so, just before they discontinued these, the Carvin Custom shop was born and a few were built neck-through. One I have is a solid koa guitar with a cap of flamed maple in vintage yellow (just the cap). The pickups are...

Not.

The guitar that really duplicates my AR-300 most closely, however, is about $2400 new from Ibanez. The AR-325 above doesn't have the heavy Gibralter bridge that mine does, nor is there a 10 ounce sustain block bolted to the body under the bridge. The 325's body is thinner than my 300, and I...

The triple-bound LPs are the AL3XXX series (that one is an AL-3100) and come standard with ebony fretboards, Tusq nuts, a Graphtech NVS2 bridge, etc. Some (the -MCC versions) are full-thickness maple caps over mahogany. The AL-3XXX series also come with real MOP or Abalone inlays. The AL-3200...