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    Guitar amplifier made portable?

    Hi there! Me and a friend would like to go busking in London. We do have two guitar amps which will be enough for the amount of instruments/mics we will be using. However, the amps still need to be plugged into a socket. Is there any way we could buy a cheap power bank or another kind of...
  2. Tommy10toes

    frequently electrocuted by 1960's guitar amp

    Hello all, I wonder if I could get some opinions. I have a small (around 5w) guitar amp which is from the 60s. Its an american made (2pin plug) amp and I have a step converter to allow to run in UK. The problem is that, as the thread title suggests, it keeps electrocuting me. Not only have...
  3. D

    Any guitar players out there?

    Way off tangent to normal forum talk but just going through a mid life crisis and 25yrs of seeing bands etc ive decided to take up learning to play a guitar. Bought an acoustic steal guitar and im going through the pain barrier at the moment learning the chords but determination is high as i...
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    Me guitar

    Off the wall a bit but I've been reading about Brian May's home made guitar and how he incorporated a switch into it that would reverse the polarity of the pick ups and open up a load of different sounds. What I'd like is for you to come up with a switching arrangement that would do this because...
  5. Floody

    Me playing guitar

    Hi fellas, bought an iPad this week and here's a quick video I made for anyone who's interested in watching me play a bit of Metallica and maiden. I'm not great by any means but I love playing heavy stuff. Me Playing Guitar - YouTube and yes....I'm in spongebob jama bottoms :D
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    Guitar Amp Humming

    Before anyone says it, it's not because it doesn't know the words. A friend of mine's amp hums. I put a 1Khz tone in the input and checked it with a scope on the output. Perfect. It only does it when guitar connected. Leads checked out fine. Is this an inductance/capacitance problem, and if so...
  7. S

    Re-wiring active bass guitar / pickups

    Not really sure if this fits any other topics, or even this one. But im getting pretty stuck on this one, just repaired my old ashdown bass amp, easy job, some cracked solder joints and some new jack sockets, onto my bass guitar, inside is an incredible mess of wires and dodgy solder from...
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    A bit of Guitar for ya...

    Tommy Emmanuel - Guitar Boogie - YouTube
  9. Amp David

    do we have any guitar players on the forum?

    If we do, can you tell me if the Gibson les Paul 25/50 is a good guitar
  10. L

    Electric guitar and insane amplifier noise!?!

    Newbie here so i apologise in advance for any confusion! I know nothing about wiring but i have found diagrams etc online to look at and come to some assumptions..... I have a tokai 'springy sound' electric guitar that all seems to be wired fine and has a ground wire from the bridge to the...

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