The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[ShimaTetsuo]

I was saving for the single pickup version but Guild is putting out the Starfire II bass in natural mahogany finish

[Iommic Pope]

Oh shit that looks good.

[van_muddlestein]

I was saving for the single pickup version but Guild is putting out the Starfire II bass in natural mahogany finish

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[new05002]

I bought an outlet tester and there are a few in the house that have an open ground, one in the kitchen and the one that I plug my amps into in my man cave. How bad of an issue is this? I've been playing amps in this room off of this outlet for almost 8 years. Please tell me I haven't been slowly fucking up my amps by doing this? My brother in law is an electrician though so I can get him to sort it all out.

No its not a big deal. For years electronics ran without any kind of earth ground reference (note some still do, for example lamps and what not, there is a code and class of electronics that can do this). Circuits themselves have a ground node which is a common ground internally. However any electronic in which the common ground could come into contact with the human body need to have a earth ground reference attached to it from the wall sockets. This was done to prevent stack charge build up on the internal circuit common ground which can and has killed people who have been discharged when touching a ground from a circuit.

[t-rey]

Not entirely sure, but that could be the case. There is a bit of breakup at the end of the dial, and almost like it's mixed in with the clean signal. The seller said that he has no idea what the footswitch would do and assumed that the distortion was supposed to be relatively low gain. I am dubious, but whatever. I guess they work the same as the Peavey Standards, so I should do some googling.

Hmmm I would think it would do more than a little bit of break up at the end of the dial. I would google the amp and see what you can find, and its probably a simple single button footswitch that should be relatively cheap to buy or make to find out what it does.

Did a quick search for the Peavey Standard 260 - folks are saying that it used a 2 button footswitch to turn on the distortion and the reverb, but I read that both default to 'on' if a footswitch isn't plugged in.

I will probably pick up a footswitch for it soonish and if that doesn't solve the problem I may have a tech look at it. I'm not overly concerned, since I wanted a big clean platform for pedals, and so far I'm very impressed with the Earth in this capacity.

[misterstomach]

I bought an outlet tester and there are a few in the house that have an open ground, one in the kitchen and the one that I plug my amps into in my man cave. How bad of an issue is this? I've been playing amps in this room off of this outlet for almost 8 years. Please tell me I haven't been slowly fucking up my amps by doing this? My brother in law is an electrician though so I can get him to sort it all out.

No its not a big deal. For years electronics ran without any kind of earth ground reference (note some still do, for example lamps and what not, there is a code and class of electronics that can do this). Circuits themselves have a ground node which is a common ground internally. However any electronic in which the common ground could come into contact with the human body need to have a earth ground reference attached to it from the wall sockets. This was done to prevent stack charge build up on the internal circuit common ground which can and has killed people who have been discharged when touching a ground from a circuit.

The wizard has spoken.

[christianatl]

The wizard is magic (cue harmonica).

[fallen]

I would ship mine to one of you guys, with dual footswitch and a couple of cables, for $400.

Orange or black?

[christianatl]

I really need an ATA case for my PT-1. Ideas?

[Iommic Pope]

The wizard is magic (cue harmonica).

Never talkin....

[Ancient Astronaught]

Did a quick search for the Peavey Standard 260 - folks are saying that it used a 2 button footswitch to turn on the distortion and the reverb, but I read that both default to 'on' if a footswitch isn't plugged in.

I will probably pick up a footswitch for it soonish and if that doesn't solve the problem I may have a tech look at it. I'm not overly concerned, since I wanted a big clean platform for pedals, and so far I'm very impressed with the Earth in this capacity.

Interesting!!!! If you can find one cheap enough it might be worthwhile to pick one up and just test it out. I know what you mean on the big clean pedal platform, and if it fits the bill then freakin score bro!!!!

[van_muddlestein]

I really need an ATA case for my PT-1. Ideas?

Best site I've found for that sort of thing:
http://www.roadcasesusa.com/categories/ ... dal-Cases/

Also:
http://stompin-ground.com/products/sgcases.htm

I didn't look to closely to see what the sizes are for things, but I'm sure you could probably call them and double check it's going to fit.

[braaandooon]

I bought an outlet tester and there are a few in the house that have an open ground, one in the kitchen and the one that I plug my amps into in my man cave. How bad of an issue is this? I've been playing amps in this room off of this outlet for almost 8 years. Please tell me I haven't been slowly fucking up my amps by doing this? My brother in law is an electrician though so I can get him to sort it all out.

No its not a big deal. For years electronics ran without any kind of earth ground reference (note some still do, for example lamps and what not, there is a code and class of electronics that can do this). Circuits themselves have a ground node which is a common ground internally. However any electronic in which the common ground could come into contact with the human body need to have a earth ground reference attached to it from the wall sockets. This was done to prevent stack charge build up on the internal circuit common ground which can and has killed people who have been discharged when touching a ground from a circuit.

This guy apparently wasn't so lucky...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Relf

[odontophobia]

Wanted to chime in, unrelated to electricity, and say that I had the GFS Mean 90's installed in my Toronado and jammed it hard at practice. Took my shirt off because Matt Pike. After a setup and new strings... woof.

Played through a newly acquired Carvin X100b into my Avatar 4x10 and Avatar 2x12 and then my RedBear through an Orange 4x12 and it was fucking awesome. Really liked the pickups. Loved the cleans, they sounded so crisp.

[whiskey_face]

You could always sell another orange rocker 30 for it?

One shouldn't speak of things they know nothing about.

Enlighten me then.