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Thomastic infeld jazz bebop 14-56's if I'm feeling flush. They last forever but a bit pricey. Otherwise D'addario XL's. 13-56. I use the same strings on all my electrics, single coils, mudbuckers or P90's. I have big hands and just laying my hands on the neck pulls 9's or 10's off pitch. I think all...

When not using just fingers, I use a Wegner pick. It has a thick body with a canted edge that gets rid of the clacky spike on the initial attack of notes. They make several styles. The one I like is the giant one with grooves cut in the center, it never falls out of hand. The down side is cost. ~ $20.

I scored a matched QUAD of Telefunken EL 84's from Germany. Best $160 I ever spent! No problems with the transaction either. 1 week to my mailbox.

First i'd plug into another speaker cabinet to verify the source of the problem isn't the speaker.

I'd try reheating the joints on the smoothing cap /resistor junctions. The fade in and out sounds like draining of the filter caps after the rectifier path is interrupted. Look at the rectifier thru the filter caps / resistors.

+1 on Harmonic Design. For a sample listen to. Redd Volkaert.

Sweet, that opens up a new alley for me to run down tonequesting. Thanx Andy!

Isn't the combined bias the main reason the early silverfaces were such tone killers?

THELMA HOUSTON

Rocketeer, relocate the screens to the UL taps on the primary, remove the screen resistors as they are no longer needed, and will degrade the transformers control of the tube. As for the feedback, i like little or no feedback myself. I like the sparkle and immediacy of tone that feedback takes away....

The silastic rubber insulators are more thermally efficient than the grease. Less messy also. The grease ruins clothing. The insulators are available in TO-220 and. TO-3 sizes from newark, allied and digikey.

Gotta honor "The Good Thief". Best heist movie ever. Great international cast and. Nick Nolte's performance is inspired. Based on the old french film "Bob the Burglar"

Charlie Hunter manages a reasonable facsimile of a hammond/ leslie.

Joe Walsh on "You're gonna need me" From James Gang's. Live in concert. Stunning solo with one of the best uses of the echoplex and wah ever.