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  1. Philip Lyon

    Show Your Shredders

    The only shredder I have is a Jackson MIJ 2003 Dinky Hot Rod Flames - got it in mint cond for around $240 recently. It looks real weird when played whilst wearing black clothes, all you see is flames and no guitar outline !
  2. Philip Lyon

    Use Guitar Fretboard Cleaning? What Do You Use

    I use lemon oil on rosewood boards. It cleans the grime off, feeds the wood and stops it shrinking reducing the chance of fret ends protruding on unbound fingerboards. On varnished maple boards I use a damp (not wet) microfiber cloth to clean the grime off. On unvarnished maple boards I use...
  3. Philip Lyon

    Strat Pickups Texas Special Vs Custom Shop 69

    Personally I would use CS 69s for rock and Texas Specials for blues - that's what works best for me with my rig.
  4. Philip Lyon

    Strat Pickups Texas Special Vs Custom Shop 69

    A steel base plate (add on self adhesive earthed as per Telecasters) boosts bass and overall output by around 10% by altering the strength and shape of the magnetic field. Highs are slightly attenuated too. Wire the pickups so that the bridge pickup is wired to the middle P/U's tone pot to...
  5. Philip Lyon

    Pedals In The Tsl603 Effects Loop On The Pedalboard

    A cheap way to get the best tone with cables in my experience is to buy Van Damme SPOFC (Silver Plated Oxygen Free Copper) cable by the yard / metre and fit your own plugs. In my own side by side tests with Klotz and Planet Waves cables the Van Damme rustled the least (Klotz worst) had the...
  6. Philip Lyon

    Good Seat/stool For Practicing Guitar?

    I use a wooden three legged artists stool which is a lot like an old milking stool. It has a circular flat wooden seat with a 3" diameter 1' long wooden screw for height adjustment giving it a max height of about 18 ". Being three legged it is stable on the most uneven floor imaginable - the...
  7. Philip Lyon

    Best Boost Pedal??

    I have used a modded EH LPB-1 (caps values changed to preserve original tone more) a Boss GE-7 a Blackstar LT-Boost and a tube Blackstar HT-Boost. The HT Boost wipes the floor with the rest by a wide margin. It's EQ is active and it preserves dynamics way better than any other booster I've...
  8. Philip Lyon

    Celestion Creamback 75 Vs Vintage 30 (video)

    Exactly why I buy used parts and sell them on to either break even or profit a little. That way I learn a little and it doesn't cost me. I believe in a little experimentation in my search for tonal nirvana - if none of us did this we'd all sound the same !
  9. Philip Lyon

    Dsl15h Tubes?

    Just fitted all JJs to a DSL 401. When biased according to Tube Amp Doctor specs the end result was, surprisingly for that amp, a little too dark. As SG-GUY says, putting a stock Marshall (Chinese Shuguang) tube back in V1 worked wonders and all the missing bite and crunch was restored but...
  10. Philip Lyon

    Help To Find The Best Headphones

    If you want good mid priced cans try any Sennheiser over the ear type - loads of deep bass neutral mids and crisp trebles. If money is no problem AKG or Beyer are probably the best there is. I personally use a cheap pair of Sony MDR-XD200. They have a 10Hz to 22kHz range and are a good...
  11. Philip Lyon

    Celestion Creamback 75 Vs Vintage 30 (video)

    Very interesting. I recently put a G12H75 Creamback in a DSL401 and it sounded, in my opinion, much less appealing than the stock Gold back. Trebles weren't detailed enough, mids rather lacking and bass was not that much to talk about either. The G12H75's SPL was actually less than the Goldback...
  12. Philip Lyon

    Active Guitar Cables.

    I will stick with a Low Impedance Buffer and my true bypass pedals for now. This "active" lead looks like a mini SMD based buffer has been built into it which would I feel would be no better than a Boss pedal with it's own built in low imp buffer in term of performance. I personally use a...
  13. Philip Lyon

    Test Your Ears! Can You Tell Which Marshall This Is? Results Are In!

    Looking at the EQ set up of the DSL 100 there is no wonder why I picked 1974x by mistake. With the Resonance Bass Treble and Presence set so low and Mids so high that does an almost perfect impersonation of an EL84 amps normal behaviour. Fooled me well and truly. I always associate DSL 100s...
  14. Philip Lyon

    Listen To That Super Lead

    I 100% agree with this. Ritchie's tone on this album is probably the best live tone I have heard anyone get out of a Strat and this Strat was absolutely stock - original staggered pole pickups like the CS 69 type Fender items. I have to admit when I first put CS 69s in a Strat and went via a...
  15. Philip Lyon

    Test Your Ears! Can You Tell Which Marshall This Is? Results Are In!

    It just sounds like EL84s to me and yes, turning up the bass with these does make for a less tight mushy low end in my opinion. They are less bassy and more mid oriented than any other tube I know. EL34s produce a good amount of bass (not as much as 6L6s in my experience) and to my ears can be...
  16. Philip Lyon

    Test Your Ears! Can You Tell Which Marshall This Is? Results Are In!

    Sounds like EL84s to me, squishy indistinct bottom end, no thump, prominent mids, softish highs. I say it's the 1974x.
  17. Philip Lyon

    If We Had The Peavey.....

    @Coronado Those amps are Peavey Decade Solid State with Saturation effect - one input socket for Normal, the other for Saturation overdrive effect, 4558 op amps I believe as per Tube Screamer. A 10 Watt early 80s amp with an 8 inch speaker and a 12v socket on the back so you can run it from a...
  18. Philip Lyon

    Hot Sauce...

    Ideally a 50/50 mix of peppers and rock salt in a 12 Gauge Cartridge would be best, but the law in the UK re weapons (even blank firers, air weapons and BB guns) is so mega strict it defies belief. We can't even own a 3 inch blade with a lock anymore ! So it's a case of check wind direction...
  19. Philip Lyon

    Hot Sauce...

    My wife carries a 35mm camera cartridge case of ground peppers in her pocket as a defensive weapon !
  20. Philip Lyon

    Hot Sauce...

    I started to get all excited about this thread and then discovered it wasn't about Willie Pete - never mind - google it if you don't understand.

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