Blastronaut

The box is likely for either packing your stuff to move out or hiding the body after the inevitable domestic when you find out how much the moisturiser cost.

Like some early Cardiacs then?

Regarding Starmer, I honestly just have a pretty hard time trusting anyone with a knighthood that claims to be a socialist. Not that I'm voting Tory. "Sir Kier" is the lesser of two evils but he's still quite clearly a duplicitous cunt.

"I asked for a table and they brought me a lampshade" was a great Rafa quote (from his time at Valencia I think?).

Aye. Lived on the Mexican border in a patch of land that used to be Mexico. Was "definitely not racist" but tweeted shit like #blacklifesdontmatter. I dont mean to sound cold or callous but I think I just felt the earth get lighter.

2 grand to spend every day picking up dog shit? Fuck that. I can source the parts locally for a fraction of that. Call it £80 and ill build you one from scratch.

If you go for it and it all goes tits up feel free to drop me a message. If you can solder even just a little the kits are probably no more difficult than lego, just with a slight chance of 1st or 2nd degree burns. Pedals circuits are also relatively safe to fuck about with, none of dangerous high currents associated with valve amps to worry about. That forum I mentioned earlier is also a great resource if you do get into it. Full of really friendly folk and the majority of the are much smarter than me. Back to those nutube's. They probably sound really good tbf (as far as low-voltage valve pre-amps go). I'm just a cynical prick and find all that "revolutionary new technology" marketing bollocks and the associated price tags massively disengenuous.

Go for it man, nothing to be intimidated by like. If you can solder these kits are childsplay. Pretty deep rabbit hole to fall into though. Ive never used kits but most of them look pretty legit. I only mentioned fuzzdog since a guy I know recently got started with one of their EQD clones and was really happy with it.

I honestly don't know where to start with this. There was a big discussion over on the diystompboxes forum a few years ago when Korg started trying to flog that NuTube thing as some game-changing new technology. If I memory serves it's essentially the same thing you'd find in flourecent displays back in the early 90s. £200 and they won't even assemble it for you? Sounds like a worse deal than a day trip to IKEA. If anyone wants to get into the pedal building thing and doesn't know where to start id recommend just getting a kit from somewhere like Fuzzdog. Spend the change on a decent soldering iron and a nice bottle of whisky. (Edit to add:) aye, this "new and revolutionary" technology was in your VCR and your car radio a few decades ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_fluorescent_display

Aye it's the basic model (112j) and honestly plays great. Just not my thing, more at home with Tele's and Les Paul's. I've long fancied getting one of their SGs (you know the ones that aren't actually SG's but just double cut Les Pauls?). Honestly dont even know what it is about them, I just like the look of them.

Oh man that's some serious sentimental value. You could probably find a good tech will mod it with an effects loop but likely easier just getting a proper attenuator if this is only thing you'd use the loop for. I inherited a 12-string acoustic and a Yamaha Pacifica from my old man when he passed, neither get played very often but I couldnt ever part with them. Wall hangers, really. The pacifica actually plays really nice but strat types were never my thing. Cheapest guitar in the house but gets looked after better than my main.

Oh fuck no seriously don't do that! That's an expensive repair and why I'm surprised they can get away with marketing this thing as a "passive attenuator". Going back to my "try a volume pedal in the effects loop" that's all this is. Edit: yeah shit, sorry Tom from what I see the class 5 doesn't have an effects loop. My bad.

There's an electro-harmonic one aswell, can remember the name of it They're absolutely not attenuators, just volume pedals essentially. Really handy though. Obligatory "but given its just a volume pot and two jack sockets they've got a right fucking cheek charging so much for it". (actually £40 is probably fair enough to be honest).

Something like this maybe? Just sit it on top of your amp or hide it down the back and forget about it. Doesn't even need power. Spend the change on beer or something. (Gotta admit, surprised they get away with marketing that as an attenuator.)

If its any use to anyone you can pretty much add a master volume to an amp that doesn't already have one by sticking a volume pedal in the effects loop. Let's you crank the preamp valves and then turn it down before it hits the power amp.

"always wanted to own a football club and a Ferrari but settled for renting Justin King's leaky old canal boat. #regrets #buyrichenergy #6forapound #entrepreneur #pleasedonttellanyonehowilive"

Aye even one watt through a decent speaker can piss off the missus and the neighbours. I impulse bought a Bassbreaker 45 head when Thomann had a flash sale. Nice amp but it's asbo material even in 1watt mode.

Got to assume that's aussie $. And "I'd rather ship it" stinks of "it's fucked but I'd rather blame that on the courier" Nice lump of wood though. Almost the perfect middleground between Gibson and Fender, that.

Pete put out a few decent tunes tbf, just hard to believe they weren't all written by Mark Keds like most of the libertines hits.

Nice one, glad to hear first impressions are good and cheers for the feedback! (same to @sammynb!) Any issues or questions you know where to find me. More impressively, the amp in this video is said to be running on the power of his marketing wank.

Nah you're spot on to call that out. Poor form on my part and I should fucking know better. Overshot that line between just funny wordplay and bigoted, degrading, brainlessness. Anyway back on topic, the volume control on the guitar acting like a gain control in these old germanium Fuzz pedals is probably the coolest thing about them and the only real reason it's still sought after in these circles if you ask me. There's a few great Silicon adaptations that get pretty close like some of the David Main (D. A. M) pedals (and even *cough* analogman) but they're just not quite the same and don't clean up to the same extent. Feel like I've derailed this, I'll shut the fuck up until you've got it back on track. If anyone wants my input just type something like "boutique" or "analogman"

Ah fuck yeah, was just regurgitating an overused joke in the pedal scene without really stopping to think about how it's a bit offensive. My bad, I'll remove that one from my repertoire. Hey as far as the pedal goes, it's only a waste of cash if it sucks, and like you say it'll hold its value better than a lot of stuff in the guitar world. Didn't realise this was a 7 knob version so there's something else I was wrong about. Looks pretty cool and with all those options there must be some usable tones in there somewhere. But yeah that's some serious marketing guff on the Zvex page, but I suppose "featuring £2 worth of ancient parts from the old Soviet Union" doesn't have the same appeal.

Clearly had a few too many drinks last night, no offense intended with any of that. My sober take on those pedals: the King/Prince of Tone is just a modified Bluesbreaker that needlessly uses somewhat hard to source diodes for clipping the signal. If they do sound any different from the ones in the Bluesbreaker it'll be barely perceivable. They do have a very slightly different threshold for clipping the signal but it's barely worth mentioning. My bet is he scored a bunch of them on the cheap and decided to throw them in whatever pedal he was making at the time, nominal change that can be used as marketing buzzwords. Those Germanium transistors @Tom was talking about will no doubt be legit, for whatever reason Russia kept on producing Germanium semiconductors long after the rest of the world moved on. And to be fair to Zvex and Analogman they can be a total ball-ache to sort through, since they drift off spec as they age and the data sheets are in Cyrillic. They're not all that rare or expensive though.

I know a few folk who can sort you out with cheap Russian trannys if that's what you're into man. For £350 you might need a 7 seater.

Sorry man, dunno what revisions were made over the years but the most expensive conponents in the earlier versions of the fuzz factory are the control 5 pots, barely 50p each. Under the hood theres basically just three Silicon transistors worth a few pence each. Cool pedals though and from what I gather Zachary is a decent bloke who'll give you a hefty discount if your names J Mascis. (quick edit to add:) seems I was wrong, two of the three transistors are old-school germanium rather than silicon. Add £2 to my whatever my previous estimate was.