From: Morris Slutsky on
On Jan 25, 4:02 am, Fred Abse <excretatau...(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:46:38 -0700, Lord Valve wrote:
> > we're just ignorant guitar pickers
>
> So why crosspost to sci.electronics.design?
>
> sci - the hint's in the name.
>
> --
> "Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference
> is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more
> durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it."
>                                              (Stephen Leacock)

I'm the one who crossposted. Guilty! I just wanted to hear from
these 3 different groups. It's a guitar amp circuit so it belongs on
AGA. It's a tube circuit so it belongs on RAT. And since it's
design, feedback, all that complicated stuff, I wanted to hear from
SED. Fair enough I guess! I understand that the perspectives here
are all going to be different. As to the Lord, he is well known to
dislike "3 legged fuses" and anything digital - but oddly enough he
does know quite a bit about the old-fashioned FETs of the 70s so go
figure, it's his personal opinion and not his lack of knowledge, it's
an informed opinion even if we may disagree. Me, I don't always
dislike solid state guitar amps, and nobody has ever had a problem
with transistorized guitar effects such as the classic Fuzz Face,
although I do dislike digital guitar gear probably because I first saw
the stuff in the early 90s when it had latency so bad that you could
hit a note and go make a sandwich before coming back and hearing it
come out of the speaker. So that's where I'm coming from and why I
crossposted.

As to the Lord's client list - never heard of ANY of them? Really?
Not even Meatloaf or Fleetwood Mac or Huey Louis? I can understand
that most people wouldn't like Yo La Tengo but they are cool I think.
And definitely the Dirty Dozen Brass Band rules - check out "Brooklyn"
I think that's their main popular tune. As to the Flobots - I love
the Flobots. My band actually covers "Handlebars" and they let me
play the horn solo (I only play guitar but I use an octave fuzz
there. It's kind of close. Kinda.) I mean, it's not like he has
done work for the Beatles but hey you know the Beatles are half-dead
already, life is like that, there's plenty of good music out there
today.