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I'm in the camp of "I love all Firebirds". Looks good and I'm glad its not $6k or more.

This is good hear. I'm having the same surgery tomorrow

The settings they use to drive the amp into oscillation aren't realistic. This is not how you dial in a Mesa for chugga chugga. You don't set V1 and treble at 8-10 and the lead master at 8 with the overall master set at 1. That's just dumb. All a newbie user needs to do is use the sample settings and adjust to taste. The pots on these amps have a +/- 20% tolerance so what might achieve the same level of gain on one amp at 6, may need to be set to 8 on a different amp. As you crank up the master, the dial back V1. treble and lead drive for the same level of gain. Unless you just enjoy excessive levels of hiss then, you do you. IMO if you are buying this amp to drive it into max gain, saturation and compression, you are just wasting your money, Now that I have the amp, I'm dropping out of the groups. All this infighting from users that only know what they heard on youtube is getting very tedious. I've love to be able to discuss the gear and its capabilities but until Ola Englund gets one and does his chugga chugga thing, making it sound like every other tone on his channel, lots of folks will be in this mode of increasing unhappiness and disappointment. We predicted that right? LOL Last night explored the clean channel. Using the Tyler Dann Huff guitar, the combo of the amp and onboard tyler/demeter clean boost resulted in gobs of sustain and bloom, totally clean and fun to play. Needed to dial back the treble and add bass so if I switched back to the lead channel, it got a little gnarly. Balancing the two sounds has always been a challenge. Maybe a TS is the key.

My IIC+ reissue arrived a few days ago. I would post a pic but I can't figure out how on this site My dealer received 5 amps and just learned I was number 5 on the waiting list. While I was waiting on the amp, I've been playing my OG IIC+ SRG. Few thoughts: Just being real here but if I had to do a blindfold test and not hearing with my eyes, I would not be able to tell the difference between my OG SRG and the reissue. All the sounds & quirks are there. It's pretty amazing actually. Has all the note bloom and feedback as the OG. It reacts the same with different guitars as the OG. At extreme settings, low masters and high V1 & drive, it gets just as noisy. The tones on all the youtube demos are shit. Being in the room and interacting with the amp in the way the player wants to hear things is such a different experience.

I was hoping they would use Doug West's Anderson guitar with H3 pickups. This was the one they supposedly used when they were tuning the IIC+. I pulled my Andy from storage for when the reissue arrives.

The Gibson guy was probably not the best player to demo the amp but the tones I heard thru my computer speakers sound very familiar to me. They didn't totally goose the amp into noisy oblivion either.

That was predictable. Hopefully everyone ahead of me on the waitlist cancels their orders so I'll receive mine sooner.

"Loaded" is an old school Boogie term. They use it in some of the old price lists including the one I was given when I was trying to decide options in 1989. The base model was 60W without reverb, GEQ or higher power (100W mode, simulclass). Since then, I've always called those amps with the all the options as "loaded".

I've owned a couple IIC+ amps. The first one I bought in the late 80s, the crunch berries 100W fully loaded head for the then whopping price of $600. Lost that one in a house fire. About 15 years ago I bought a loaded simulclass chassis for $3200. That one went back to Mike B and I had a guy on the boogie forums build me a headshell. Mike B performed his magic, replaced a bunch of parts and the amp was a completely different beast. Just fantastic. I guess that amp is worth somewhere between $8-10k now. When Blues City Music ended their relationship with Boogie, I got a steal of a deal on a JP2C head. I honestly think the JP2C has little in common with my IIC+. Its much angrier sounding but super versatile due to independent channels and midi control of everything. But, part of the reason it doesn't have the real IIC+ sound is all the switching, bells & whistles. This morning, I ordered the reissue. Hoping for the best and it sounds closer to the OG Boogie.

Quite few of the dealer custom P basses have J profile necks. Been a thing for a pretty long while. New colors are always a good thing but if you want, you can still get a boring 3 tone SB finish. I'm a bit of a purist when it comes to the P bass so I would take a pass on J necks and 2 pickups.

Rocktober starts with the State Fair! The rest of the month I'll be playing one of the Standards thru my new Boogie JP2C.

I think they look cool.

In the late 2000s, I had 3 guitars plekked at a workshop in Oklahoma...EBMM Luke 1, PRS CU24 and one of my Hamer standards. All benefited from this work. At the time, there was no luthier I could trust to do this work.

Only for employees. If you're an owner and you sell your company, the no compete is enforceable.

Didn't watch this but I'm skeptical. For all we know, it could be a rando collection of guitars and a made-up story to drive clicks to his monetized youtube page.

I drank a fair bit at gigs plus other substances. Mostly out of boredom...the same old tunes, "playing for the song" and lack of real friendships within the bands. We were there to make our $150/night full stop. Maybe the only thing good to come out of Covid was, it broke the cycle.

Why did you think you needed the string retainer bar? On my new Soloist, they also omitted the retainer. If you had not mentioned it here, I might not have noticed.

That looks sweet. I always wonder why they locate the pup selectors in those odd places? I just bought a CS Jackson Soloist. Can't wait!

$5k gets you a nice Flying V from Gibson but, I digress. This lawsuit is really about imports. Hardly anyone buys new Time Capsule guitars and if you do, get ready for the resale hit.

My Father (RIP) was a piano teacher and he tuned pianos when his students were in school. He tuned Van Cliburn's personal pianos and for artists that came thru town. He was meticulous about the 4 grand pianos we had in our home. My Mother also taught. On weekends, early in the morning, I would hear him tuning those pianos. I believe my sense of pitch was in part from all those listening sessions. He used tuning forks exclusively. He'd wack the fork, stick it on the heel of his shoe and make adjustments. When I got my first Peterson strobe tuner, I let him borrow it. About a week later he rings me up, come get your tuner. He felt it was more time consuming to be focused on the display and his ears were more accurate with the stretch. Although he constantly denied it, I felt my Dad had perfect pitch. His Steinway is in my home now. The guy that tunes the piano also uses pitch forks.

I run a calibration lab and here's my take. Buy the cheapest one then, go buy some produce. Produce is weighed on a legal for trade scale. Zero out your scale, pop the produce on your scale and check for offsets. If you don't like what you see, return the scale, eat your veggies and start all over.

My local Sam Cash offering 5-10% off MSRP. Been looking for a home digital piano. Sales dude, was a nice guy but could only offer 5% off at this time. He says come back in july for the 30% deals.

In lieu of the sustainer switches, Sustainiac offers a pot with a pull up switch. So volume/sustainer on/off and tone/harmonic. Nothing special about that Charvel or Dinky. Make them work for you.

How about Al DiMeola or Neal Schon? Alex Lifeson. Forget that stuff. A custom 24 just looks cooler than a Monaco or Studio Custom. Who wants to blow $3200+ to spec out a SC when there's numerous ones for sale constantly? What Hamer does best is Explorers and Vees. There is not tremendous demand for those guitars anyway. What I find most puzzling about the Hamer brand is they are held in such high regard yet owners seem to flip their Hamers constantly (many thanks btw). Player X gets studio custom, its the greatest instrument ever only to be flipped 6 months later. Even zandards have passed thru multiple hands (bubs you still owe me). I don't get it. I'm glad the craftsman still have a gig. I don't see this as the end of Hamer. The break will do us all good. They'll be back doing reissues.

You still have first dibs my friend