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We saw Jenny Lewis play at a weird old church in Chicago a few years ago -- one of the all time best shows I have seen.

Had something similar a year ago. It was awful -- had a million tests done, including an MRI of my head. Nothing turned up. Doctor said in the end he thought it was a virus or some sort. Hope you feel better quickly, but take the time to do so. School's not that interesting. We went for a drive around western CT and MA to see the leaves, and met up with family for some dinner. It felt very New England.

There was a time (88-91 about) when records were no longer available and things were not being reissued on cd such that old punk was cassette only. I owned a lot of tapes as a consequence. That said, I am not the least bit nostalgic about store bought tapes. This is a dumb idea. And I occasionally drive an old and shitty enough car that it still has a tape player.

The speaker makes quite a bit of difference -- throw in something with a ceramic magnet and the sound is very different -- brighter, harder, crisper, etc. The AlNiCo breaks up sooner (necessary for a 5 watt amp that wants to overdrive the speaker) and is definitely how it was done a long time ago. The phase splitter is also in that camp. FWIW, I play a mid-70's Les Paul Custom and I like noisy sloppy warm midrangey guitar. This amp also has no feedback, so even with a different speaker it is not going to give that clean modern distortion sound. Sadly, I don't remember what the tone stack is -- it has one knob and was copied off some vintage Princeton, but I can't remember for the life of me which one. I'd place the sound somewhere in the range of Motorhead to Mudhoney to Smashing Pumpkins. Grungy. Tubes are a 12AX7, 2 EL84s, a rectifier ... I think (I really can't remember -- we built this thing a year and half ago) and maybe something else. I'll have to open it up to see for sure.

The output tubes are wired for triode, so it is running at ~5W. Switching it to pentode would increase that to 15W or so.

Not sure on the price. We did the proto a while ago, and we have just started talking about picking up the project again. FWIW, I think it is a really neat circuit. The input stage is very Fender Champ-y. A couple of basic gain stages and a single tone control. The neat part is that it uses an emitter follower to drive an interstage transformer as a phase splitter. You used to see this on old Gibson amps (the transformer, not the BJT) but it has almost never been done since. This is coupled to a fixed bias EL84 output stage which is very Vox like. Oh, and it uses a Weber AlNiCo speaker for a big fat warm sound.

Can I post this here? A little project we've been tinkering with.

Why not just use an actual delay which will probably cost less than the poor man's delay, and it will prevent you (or your friends) from flipping the wrong switch.

You are much more likely to get food poisoning from the rice than the fish.

Happy Birthday!

Showed up on Tidal -- I haven't heard this since I lost the cd in about 1992. And for good measure ...

Happy Birthday!

My suggestion would be to 1) use something that can clone the drive* so that you can just install the copy and pick up where you were if the original is damaged/missing, 2) remove the drive before sending it in. * My preference is to load up a live Linux installation from a USB stick and do this using dd. But there are other less nerdy options, I think.

I should have bought stock in reverb machines ...

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Rpi now has a touch screen available for $60.

Mikhail would be proud.

You can also plant some mint.

Or a humane trap