Do you ever get the sense the Universe is winking at you from behind a veil of illusion or simulation? You’re probably right. Except the Universe is the illusion and it cannot wink.
My aunt found this Bible at her house and brought it to me the other day. It was given to me the day I was saved, June 13, 1986 at vacation Bible school. I was staying at her house at the time with my mom and two younger sisters after my parents’ divorce. I was 8 years old.
Later, I spent a lot of years as a professed agnostic, because I felt like it was the only logically defensible position to have in life, but I was forgetting the immutable axiom that no position which assumes the power of the human mind to discern Truth is ever truly safe or logical. We all need God in our lives. I’m just glad to be reminded of this again.
Hope y’all are having the kind of day that reminds you how lucky you are to be a part of Creation…perhaps even in spite of yourselves.
This is a video response to Tone Priest's question about modding a Hiwatt clone build. If you are a paid member here on Locals and have tech or other questions, I'll be happy to give you a similar video response when I get time! Thanks so much for all your continued support.
This was the full jam session on the Gibson L1 I did recently. As you probably know, I usually will jam for a while on something and then pick a few highlights to show in a final video. A ton of stuff got edited out. It's not all great, but it's not all bad either. I find it kind of soothing, this quiet acoustic stuff. I'm never sure where the mood will take me.
I made this quick video the other day for a friend and figured I'd post it here as well. He wants to get started in slide, so I was quickly showing him some open tuning concepts to make the transition to slide a bit easier. Kind of like learning slide without a slide.
This video won't go live until Saturday morning. I figure Saturday and Sunday mornings are pretty good times for long-form videos because people are probably settling in with a coffee somewhere, maybe doing a hobby, or having breakfast, so they aren't in doom scrolling mode just yet. But for my Locals peeps, I'll give you the link early in case you got more time on Friday. Don't say I never did anything for ya! ;)
Hi guys. I built a Hiwatt DR504 - that's not a sentence I had on life's bingo card. Anyway, since it's a clone and not a priceless antique, I want to tinker with it.
1st thought is I want to change the Brilliant input to Marshall spec. The Bril channel would otherwise not get used except for maybe jumpering channels. It's pretty thin and shrill in stock form. It currently has a 220k plate resistor, 2.2k cathode and a .47 bypass cap. I'm thinking we change that to 100k / 2.7k / .68uf and ditching the bright cap.
The other thing I was thinking was: since the Hiwatt's master volume is -> right after the tone stack -> makeup gain stage -> then the phase inverter, what if we replace the master volume pot with a fixed grid stopper & leak of some values and install a post phase inverter master volume? I don't know how useful this would be. The amp is LOUD and it is CLEAN. Cranking the preamp volume all the way up doesn't get you much crunch and the little you get is kinda just blocking ...
