Dr Tony Balls wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2026 6:40 am

djimbe wrote: Fri Mar 27, 2026 5:17 pm My 11 year old is learning bass right now and she loves plugging into it just for fun

Awesome!!!

Yeah it is. She's back in the music room right now fucking around with a cheap Ibanez strat and that box. She uses a Pro Jr. My '64 Bassman rig scares her

The Black 1000 is a Super Black with an added switchable boost. A custom order from FM four_oclocker_2.2, and later another was made for Jon San Paolo, who may be on here?? Dunno.

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(eyes wide open emoji) whoa. Ok then. I ...

The "Black 1000" or whatever it's called (it's still in a box and I'm unpacking) that Tony built for me is CHOICE for this sort of thing. Rat-style with multiple clipping options plus a boost. Wonderful "one box solution" there.


Oh man, if you're talking about a Balls Super Black, then I ...

somnolent. I only made it through 2 minutes before deciding it was candy-assed shit and I actually like and listen to lots of "jazz". That 16 year old upright player looked like he was enjoying it...

the Sandhill Cranes are moving back north for the summer and they congregate in the corn and bean fields near my house. I take farm roads to get back and forth from Michigan City and you can see dozens of them right near the road as you drive by. Bigger than a Great Blue Heron by a whole bunch, they ...

C/NC:

Pull one speaker out of a 2x15 for a fuller sounding "detuned" cab.


Pro - free
Con - possible bullshit google pg.1 version of a proper fronted ported cab built to a certain spec around yr favourite speaker


find a speaker with no voice coil and put that in the hole for a passive ...

NC for me. I'm so far removed in time from things I played on or recorded for others at this point. It's a part of my life I'm not likely to live in any way again, so going back to listen periodically reminds me of all the fun and concentration and creativity that went into those recordings. And the ...

HOF. Insight that is invaluable for those in need. That's not me, bit still

I first played pickleball in gym class in '80 or '81 and thought it was an awesome big version of ping pong. We had an old table at home up on our 3rd floor and my buds and I spent lots of time up there, so getting enough English on a pickleball to make it hop back over the net before the opponent ...

-I get super grouchy if there isn't enough "peace and quiet" in my day.


oh man, this in spades. After all my years playing loud ass music and going to loud ass shows and 40 years working in a freakin' steel mill where you must wear hearing protection every day just to keep from going deaf...

I ...