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I bought a Fender Blues Jr about three years ago. And once the initial romance was over, I noticed something a little odd about it. Whenever I played an A (any octave, any position), with either of my guitars, the amp would add a little mosquito-like buzzing while the note decayed. It was definitely frequency-related, since it only happened on A’s, and also the buzzing was kindof in-tune with the note.

So I replaced the tubes and I thought that fixed it. But eventually I started hearing it again. Then I took the back panel off and poked and tapped on various things to see if I could reproduce it. Never could. Tried both of those things multiple times over these past three years. I’ve listened to every YouTube clip of people with microphonic tubes, busted speaker coils, bad capacitors, cabinet rattles, cracked solder joints, etc.. None of them were the same sound I was hearing.

Wednesday, I had had enough. After weeks of drooling over amps on the internet, I had decided to sell the BJr and my black Stratocaster and get a new Princeton Reverb in gorgeous “Bordeaux Reserve” finish – ooh la la. The old stuff was in my car, I was on the road, 40 minutes to the store. Then I started thinking about the process of trying a new amp and selling my old stuff, and COVID and masks and touching guitars and, nope. I wasn’t going to take that risk. I turned around and went home.

When I got home I plugged the amp in the garage, unscrewed the back panel, turned it up loud and started looking at it again. Then I discovered the problem. It was the reverb tank. That’s a little box bolted to the bottom of the amp cabinet. It’s responsible for making it sound like you’re playing in a big room. It has a set of long steel springs inside – on one side of the springs, a slightly-amplified copy of the signal from your guitar sets the springs vibrating. On the other side, a magnetic sensor listens to the moving springs; vibrating springs just happens to sound like the echo of a big room. That signal gets mixed back in with the clean signal and that gets amplified some more and sent to the speaker.


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Even with the reverb level at zero on the amp’s controls the buzzing still happened. So I never thought it could be related to the reverb. But when I unplugged the reverb tank (physically taking it out of the circuit) the buzz went away.

$30 to get a new reverb tank on Amazon. Hopefully that’s all it takes!

Update:
Yep. That was all it took. The replacement reverb appears to be identical to the stock Fender tank, inside and out in every way, except for the brand’s sticker on the new one (says “MOD”). So, it probably is from the same factory. But, it works.

Took my three years to figure this one out. So hopefully this post will help someone else in the future.

Islam’s Gonna Blow Up Nashville!

We are under conviction to not only tell you but to provide evidence that on July 18, 2020, Islam is going to detonate a nuclear device in Nashville, Tennessee. Our problem with trying to warn you of this event is that it requires information on a handful of subjects that you may or may not have any inclination to consider.

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The subjects all have a relation to Bible prophecy and all of the are interconnected. The United State of America is one theme which is prophetically the sixth kingdom of Bible prophesy yet different from the kingdoms of world history. Another subject is the kingdom succeeding the USA, the seventh kingdom of Bible prophecy, which is the United Nations.

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Bible prophecy specifies that Donald Trump is the final president of the USA. President Trump has been typified by many biblical leaders and is marked in God’s Word … the intensity of division that is taking place between liberal and conservative Americans is manifested daily in the news.

The paper is not happy about itself. So sad.

The Tennessean is investigating how a paid advertisement from a fringe religious group was published on Sunday in violation of the newspaper’s long-established standards.

The ad featured a bizarre, pseudo-religious “prophecy,” including the declaration of an impending nuclear attack in Nashville by “Islam.”

The ad was immediately ordered to be pulled from future editions by sales executives and the investigation launched. A similar ad, one that did not mention Islam but also contained an end-times prophecy, published in the newspaper on June 17.

The newspaper’s advertising standards clearly forbid hate speech. Advertisements that do not meet the paper’s standards are routinely rejected for publication.

Seems like maybe it’s not so routine?

Another One Bites The Dust

Raleigh, N.C. — The 75-foot-tall monument that served as a tribute to fallen Confederate soldiers was removed from State Capitol grounds by a crane Sunday morning.

Saturday, Governor Roy Cooper released a statement about confederate monuments after a night of protests over the statues that said they were a tribute to white supremacy that didn’t belong on state grounds.

“I have ordered the Confederate monuments on the Capitol grounds be moved to protect public safety. I am concerned about the dangerous efforts to pull down and carry off large, heavy statues and the strong potential for violent clashes at the site. If the legislature had repealed their 2015 law that puts up legal roadblocks to removal we could have avoided the dangerous incidents of last night,” he wrote.

Tee hee.

Domestic Terrorism

Three Nevada men with ties to a loose movement of right-wing extremists advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government have been arrested on terrorism-related charges in what authorities say was a conspiracy to spark violence during recent protests in Las Vegas.

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“People have a right to peacefully protest. These men are agitators and instigators. Their point was to hijack the protests into violence,” Nicholas Trutanich, U.S. attorney in Nevada, told AP. He referred to what he called “real and legitimate outrage” over Floyd’s death.

The complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas on Wednesday said they self-identified as part of the “boogaloo” movement, which U.S. prosecutors said in the document is “a term used by extremists to signify coming civil war and/or fall of civilization.”

Of Course

Trump is incapable of doing anything right or good.

“I don’t want President Trump speaking for St. John’s,” Budde told The Washington Post after Trump’s visit. “I am outraged.”

“I am the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and was not given even a courtesy call that they would be clearing with tear gas so they could use one of our churches as a prop, holding a Bible, one that declares that God is love and when everything he has said and done is to enflame violence,” she added.

New Phone. Who Dis?

There are a lot of people trying to reach celebrity entrepreneur Elon Musk. Sometimes, though, they get Lyndsay Tucker, a 25-year-old skin care consultant.

Tucker, who works at a Sephora beauty store in San Jose, Calif., had never heard of the Tesla and SpaceX founder and CEO until a couple years ago, when she began fielding a steady stream of calls and text messages intended for him.

“I asked my mom, ‘Hey, I keep getting these text messages’ — and I was also now starting to get phone calls — ‘for this guy Elon Musk. I don’t know who this is,’ ” Tucker said. “And my mom’s jaw just dropped.”

Turns out, Tucker’s cellphone number used to be registered to Musk. On any given day, she receives at least three calls or texts intended for Musk, whom she has never met.