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RIP Mr Alexander Dumble.
Sad day today, a true genius is gone but left so much legacy and great tones ! 🙏

Music Man Luke III, Steve Lukather signature

Great guitar in perfect shape. It has the Dimarzio Transition bridge pickup that sounds amazing. Passive pickups with a booster in a pull-pull switch. 
The neck is a sweet birdseye maple, very easy to play ! The frets are mint.

The guitar was set with 10-46 gauge and a floating tremolo. 

It comes with the original case.

1992 Tyler Studio Elite, psychedelic vomit signed by Mike Landau just arrived in the studio. It’s an amazing instrument, perfect for recording ! Well it’s called Studio Elite for a good reason. We’re glad to have that piece of the history

Check out this amazing 1973 Gibson EB-4L in our shop. It sounds huge and it has all the mojo you can expect from a vintage instrument.

that was a funny day !

Amazing 1965 Vox AC50. Used by the Beatles, Peter Green, The Who,... it’s killer with both guitar and bass !! The EL34’s bring some kind of « Plexi » flavour when cranked up while keeping that Vox shime and sparkle.
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Pedal of the month number 1, the AMS Singer is a beautiful overdrive with the perfect amount of midrange. A must have !


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In a Fuzzy Sunday mood..

New things coming at PYT, stay tuned !

Get some really Hot Deals today on our Reverb store !! Happy Black Friday to you all !!

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Rig of the day ... an easy and cheap way to create a LoFi filter 😛

Little details often make the biggest differences! This is a Germanium diode, similar to the 1N34A used in the Klon Centaur. Germanium Clipping Diodes.
According to Bill Finnegan (Klon Centaur Designer), the type of diodes used in the Op-Amp Stage make a great difference in the sound:

"These diodes are the most important factor in how the circuit sounds when it's being used to create distortion"

1n34a

"I have always used a germanium diode with the part number 1N34A, but you should understand that this particular part has since the 1950s or so been manufactured by literally hundreds of different companies, and having listened to as many different ones as I have, I can say with confidence that they all sound somewhat different in my circuit, and often they sound VERY different."

The clipping diodes define the distortion sound signature, it is built using 2 back to back diodes that shunt the signal to ground, this clipping method gives a hard-clipping sound also used in many other pedals (MXR Distortion+, RAT and Boss-DS1).

klon centaur clipping diodes

In the image above, the signal after the resistor R13 is shown, as the gain potentiometer goes higher, the diodes start to compress the signal, with a soft knee first and more aggressive at the end.

The 1N34A germanium diodes have a forward voltage VF=0.35 which is quite low compared to silicon diodes that usually have 0.7V drop, resulting in a harder compression of the signal.

Happy testing weekend !

Who’s that rig ? Ca you tell who is the famous guitarist behind this setup ? Comments below .. picture copyright

Sunny Klon Day !

🤣🤣 musician’s humour !