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The Compressor: a wonderful device that makes our music “POP”, sound full and bring up that detail, open up that track from behind the door. The compressor is one of the most talked about, most used, most influential, and probably the most important device to come along and give a listener a way to hear music they otherwise would not be able to.

The Compressor is also a mastering tool as pointed out by Steve H in his tutorial series Logic 401, Logic’s Mastering Toolbox.

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“For the first time ever, respected music photographer Rick Gould is offering a small quantity of his original photogrpaphic prints for sale.

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The New Old Stock G.E.C. test results prove this is an excellent tube

First, you need to know what the Amplitrex is. The Amplitrex AT-1000 is the state of the art computerized tube tester and one of the only tube testers produced that is able to work independently and has custom interfaced software for PC operation. The Amplitrex AT-1000 is a current production tube tester and unlike tube testers built 35 to 55 years ago, the Amplitrex offers laboratory grade testing under microprocessor control and makes it possible to check a tube according to the original manufactures design specifications. Even more valuable is the ability to duplicate not just our guitar amplifiers circuit parameters but any guitar amp parameters. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re planning to buy a new amp in the near future, or maybe buy an old amp, I would give you these three tips: Read the rest of this entry »

This is one of the best do it yourself amp build threads on our forum in a long time!!!!

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The Vintage Amps Message Forum is happy to announce we are going to be making a very extensive collection of amplifier Schematics available for free download off our website. The link to the free schematics will be found at the following URL: Free Schematics from the Vintage Amps Message Forum. 

Please visit our Schematics and more Forum section frequently for downloads and discussion of amplifier schematics as we add material to the library.

We are happy to announce Ultimate Attenuator as a new advertiser on the message forum. This is a great product for all things vintage and modern with respect to guitar amplifier volume control. See my most recent post with respect to this topic.