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Cool Music Gear You Should Know About, part 1: Guitar Amps

Friends often come to me asking for advice on cool, unique, or useful music gear of all sorts. I’ll admit first of all that if you’re a drummer or a bass player than I probably don’t have much for you. However, if you’re recording or if you’re playing keyboards and guitar then I have a [...]

Macbook Pro headphone amp noise

There’s a few little things that I do dislike about my Macbook Pro.
First of all, it gets hot. Insanely hot. I got a Marware wrist guard for it, which has made typing bearable on it. A must have if you have a MBP imho. It blends in to the color, protects it from my watch, [...]

More SonicCord photos

Here’s a few more photos of my SonicCord amp. Serial 0004. As per my earlier post, it seems that Sonic Cord is possibly no longer in business.
Huge transformers on the amp (Hammond). Just EL34 and two ECC84 tubes.

Soniccord out of business. Grr..

It seems that Stephen is no longer building amps according to this post (bottom of page) that someone made. It seems my fears were true. He’s around to fix stuff, but has moved on.
Guess I won’t be finding out what the hell this mystery knob does in my amp. It’s a fricking weird amp [...]

SonicCord in business?

Ok, this is somewhat bothering me. I hope everything’s ok there (I’ve called companies before only to find that something horrid has happened recently), but I cannot get in touch with SonicCord via email.
I tried to email sales@soniccord.com, which bounced back. I also tried webmaster, postmaster, admin, tech, steve, maggie, support, etc… all of [...]