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Posts from October 2013



How to sell a guitar on eBay
2013 Oct 4

There has never been a guitar I've parted with where I regretted selling or trading in for something else. I've owned some fairly ritzy axes in the past, both electric and acoustic (one of them was an upper-end Ovation Balladeer with a stereo output). Once I decide it's time to get rid of a guitar, […]

Gear update for October 2013
2013 Oct 5

Some fairly major changes have happened recently concerning the gear I own now.

Obsolete guitar gear: Alesis Quadraverb GT
2013 Oct 6

The Alesis Quadraverb GT effects processor is something I owned myself for a long time. I bought it new originally in the mid-1990s (1994 if I remember correctly) and the price tag was $500 for it. At the time, this was one of the best guitar effects units you could buy. It was also priced […]

1984 - the 1953 television version!
2013 Oct 9

I had thought that I had seen every single screen adaptation of George Orwell's . I was wrong. There was one more. It happens to be the first screen adaptation, and the oldest all the way back from 1953 (yes, that makes it 60 years old at the time I write this). And, wouldn't you […]

Going low-tech with synth (Casio SA-46)
2013 Oct 13

I bought little cheap keyboard I bought that will arrive in about a week, the . And if you're thinking of buying one after reading what I write about it here, it's absolutely required you also buy for it as it does not come with one (but it can run off batteries).

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