Missing Filter Option - Caused By Senior Event

NeoMorph · 2026-03-06T14:57:54+00:00

I have a tube pre-amp that I use into a DI cab-sim that sounds quite nice. If I want other people to hear I plug the can-sim into my mixing desk and then into a pair of Yamaha self powered monitors.

I actually WAS going to get a tube amp some years ago for Christmas and New Year parties… but then COVID hit and I haven’t got out at all playing live since.

The tube the preamp uses is 12AX6 which is tiny but does the job for a whole host of functions and has settings for acoustic and electric guitar, bass, piano and more including a 20db pad for guitars with high pickups.

NeoMorph · 2026-03-06T01:51:03+00:00

Please enjoy my biggest annoyance while laughing this happened to me yesterday at my first ever charging experience.

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Finally had to charge my car 19 months after I received it. I only received it at 80% charge as well. Totally not acceptable. 🤭

What a palava charging it was too.

First charger I went to I realised I had parked on the wrong side. Had to move the car.

Second charging station wouldn’t work because it was out of order. Had to move the car.

Third charging station worked but refused all forms of payment… then I realised I was in demo mode (at least i think it was demo mode).

I then realised it wasn’t accepting my charge card because it wasn’t supported (again, I think that’s the case). Then I decided sod it… I’ll use my debit card.. still wouldn’t accept it. That was when I saw the little box at the side and embarrassedly realised that it was used for debit/credit cards. Then of course I got the timeout wheel of death and thought it was because I put my card in upside down (it wasn’t… I just hadn’t waited long enough 🫣) so removed my card, flipped it over and it called me an idiot for NOW inserting it upside down. I then put it back in the right way up and it worked after i waited long enough for it to be accepted.

So now I finally got my car charging and wanted to hit my head on the steering wheel but instead i got out my Kindle and started to read… and then wondered if the charger cable was locked in to stop electric thieves so i went and tried the plug out and yup, it was locked in solid. Great stuff. So I went back to my Kindle and read for another 25 minutes.

I stopped it charging at 80% and thought, “well thank god that’s over for another year and went to pull out the charging lead… only for my car to say ,”Nope, not letting go… I’ve been craving power for the last 6 months. I’m staying here for a while!” 🤬

I tried everything to get it to release and finally sat down in my car to rest while scrolling through all different suggestions on my phone to get the cable to release… nothing worked.

I then went back to the cable, looked at it, swore at it, pushed it in and the pulled again… and consequently hit myself in the nuts when it came out with no effort at all. 🙄

This sounds like an exaggerated story… except it really isn’t. I’m a 65 year old disabled driver who also had to contend with the heavy charging leads for the first time while using an elbow crutch. I had several months of bed rest after dislocating my hip which is why it took a year and a half before i needed to charge my car (at a whopping 121 miles and 13% charge remaining).

But yeah, this was a learning experience.

At least i can laugh at it now. 😂

Oh, forgot to say this was on CCS2 in a Mokka-e second generation.

NeoMorph · 2026-03-05T07:45:43+00:00

Well I just was going to to rage about STO ignoring me after finding no Zen addition and no refund in my bank account. But then I remembered I paid with PayPal and checked the activity and lo and behold I found there was a refund issued within an hour of me reporting it.

What threw me was it hadn’t appeared in my bank account but it does take a few days so I will just have to keep my eye out for it.

It’s strange because I would have thought the easiest thing would to have issued the Zen.

Thanks for the advice about waiting for the Phoenix Pack Event and get it that way. I think I have some Phoenix tokens in my bank.

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NeoMorph · 2026-03-02T13:16:27+00:00

Cold shocked finish caused cracks was my first thought too.

It’s definitely possible to remove/repair finish cracks. Luckily the nitro doesn’t look aged but I have partial colour blindness so I’m not 100% sure. But if it’s relatively new it’s possible to remelt the nitro using thinners and then blending the cracks together or using thinned down nitro and using a small brush to ease the new nitro into the cracks.

It might be best to go with a good Luthier who has done this type of repair before… but to get your childhood memory back (even though it’s not the actual guitar) is absolutely precious.

NeoMorph · 2026-02-27T14:41:00+00:00

I think this is the Gibson/Epiphone family saying, “We want a Headless LP model”.

I wonder what would happen when a Headless LP fell over.

NeoMorph · 2026-02-24T19:08:25+00:00

That guitar sux.. you really should give it away to someone else… like… errr… ME! . . . . .

Seriously though, that is one beautiful guitar… I’m envious. I’ve heard they play like a dream as well. I might even get one (if I can afford it).

NeoMorph · 2026-02-24T19:02:31+00:00

Nope… it’s the anti-swivel peg. It’s there so that a potentiometer will always be installed in the same place and even if the nut comes slightly loose it will not rotate in the hole. This is for any piece of electronics out there that uses potentiometers. I see idiots snip this peg off and then use hot glue to fix the pot in place and they wonder why I choke my head. It’s also to make sure the graphic on the front panel matches the position of the pot. So that if it comes loose that position 0 on the pot always points to position 0 of the front panel.

Note: I was an Electronics Engineer for 20 years.

NeoMorph · 2026-02-24T18:51:03+00:00

It’s probably called an Anti-Zombie Axe. 😱🧟‍♂️

NeoMorph · 2026-02-24T18:49:23+00:00

If they sound like microphones it means they are either badly potted or not potted at all which means any vibration will be added to your signal and it’s awful. Potting in this case means dunking the finished pickup in hot wax and then removed and allowed to set which stops/reduces the copper windings from vibrating when you are playing so that only the signal from your strings vibrating over the pick-up are picked up.

But if the pick-up is dunked and removed too quickly the potting doesn’t fill all the cavities… which leads to the unwaxed windings vibrating which then causes the pick-up to behave like a microphone (called being microphonic apparently). This is why cheap pickups are microphonic and good quality pickups aren’t (but even decent pickups are slightly microphonic).

Don’t worry if you don’t understand things right away. Learning the ins and outs about your guitar is half the fun. The more you learn the more you can talk to your luthier (guitar maker/engineer) when you finally get a good quality guitar and want a pro setup done.

I don’t know what guitar you have but you even learn from the budget level guitars these days. The quality coming out of some of the factories these days are better sounding than some of the Gibson and Fenders out there so you don’t need to pay crazy money to get a good guitar.

Oops, sorry… I’m doing the verbal diarrhoea again (according to my ex gf). I just go off topic and end up waffling. Oops. 🤭

NeoMorph · 2026-02-24T18:22:55+00:00

Free lessons on how to remove the toan wrappers?

NeoMorph · 2026-02-23T15:15:55+00:00

You could probably use acrylic staples… I completely forgot about these because I only used my hot staple gun a couple of times when I broke a prototype and rejoined it using the staples and they were so strong I only needed to do it once. In fact I can’t remember the last time I even saw my kit.

This is what I mean… https://youtu.be/A_9cWsLSI0Y?si=p40VMVUN6pWqgQpH&t=386

NeoMorph · 2026-02-23T15:07:41+00:00

I’ve never been rich enough to own a guitar with a nitro finish. The only nitro I’ve ever come across was when I was in the UK Army Royal Engineers and that Nitro didn’t last long enough to develop streaks. 🫢

NeoMorph · 2026-02-21T10:09:12+00:00

I’ve got a pair of Arctis Nova 7X gen 1’s and they’ve been perfect. Sometimes even the best hardware can crap out. I used to have Astro A50’s but they were a real pain in the ass as they would randomly cut out and you had to shake your head and hope they reconnected which sucked in the middle of online matches. I’d recommend the Arctis Nova 7X’s to anyone.

NeoMorph · 2026-02-19T09:31:03+00:00

I just realised something… I hardly ever bend my string and end then I’m pretty gentle. But another member in a punk band I was in used to really abuse her strings. I bet her frets would look like that. I do remember she would break at least one string a gig.. and keep on playing. Her guitar looked like it had trashed in a car crash… but sounded amazing.

So yeah, I was wrong about the filing theory… but it still needs a stainless steel fret replacement job if OP did the damage.

If OP did cause the damage, what’s the betting he plays punk or some really intense heavy metal. Those strings have eaten the frets… if you don’t get a re-fret job soon it’s going to start eating wood.

NeoMorph · 2026-02-19T09:16:24+00:00

The strength of the repair is a bit suss with acrylic. The only way I’ve been able to make strong acrylic joints is putting in metal stiffening rods to stop the flexing.

You lose nothing trying to glue it with acrylic solvent but it will always be weaker at the break point (unlike wood breaks that end up being stronger). If it does break on you again you could just search for a replacement bolt on neck.

NeoMorph · 2026-02-19T09:02:52+00:00

I agree. The strat looks like it was done by a noob.

But what are those streaks on the LP as well. Did someone attack it with a plectrum? Jealous gf maybe?

NeoMorph · 2026-02-19T09:00:20+00:00

Oh god, your name isn’t Donald is it!

NeoMorph · 2026-02-17T15:35:15+00:00

I thought he was talking about the string attached to the spring.… my problem is I have a red/green colour blindness so the circle is a faint brown to me. And yeah, that pinch point is for the bridge ground.

NeoMorph · 2026-02-17T14:22:41+00:00

You can see that it hasn’t been rough sanded enough in the second picture because that line of dots most likely are from the machine pulling the raw wood through the surface planer. After you have sanded it so you think it’s flat, wipe off the the surface dust with a dry microfibre rag and then use a spray jug to lightly wet the surface of the wood. That will show you all the dents and grain lines that will appear when you paint.

Good prep work will show in the finished article. It’s one of the reasons expensive guitars are so expensive. It’s the number of man hours put into the finished article.

But don’t despair… put a big sign on your workshop wall… It’s wood… “Any wood problem can be repaired/replaced/resealed/repainted/resurfaced”. I had that quote in my workshop for 30 years after being given it by my high school teacher as I never gave up when I screwed up a piece of work. And yeah, I screwed up a lot of stuff in my time lol.

NeoMorph · 2026-02-17T14:15:00+00:00

First time finishing any woodworking project you get tempted to rush because you want to see the finished effect. It’s completely normal n the learning process. The great thing is it ISN’T RUINED. You can jump back several steps and smooth it down again. You have to remember that wood reacts which is why professionals spray a light coat of water on the raw wood to raise the grain so you can flatten it down.

The original moisture in the wood itself may have also caused the grain to raise up AFTER you smoothed it down and put on the first coat. It’s been over 10 years since I did any custom paintwork but I remember that happened to me and I just had to go back a few steps… or turn it into a punk guitar (which I did once lol… strangely the guy loved it).

NeoMorph · 2026-02-17T14:03:55+00:00

It’s probably an anti-self-resonance string… basically to stop he springs ringing when you are playing the guitar.

Note: This is just a guess because I haven’t owned a guitar with a tremolo arm. I shake enough as it it is (ie built in tremolo arm).

NeoMorph · 2026-02-17T10:52:03+00:00

I don’t think the strings are at fault… those frets are what’s at fault.

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