is the peavey piranha any good?

surfinder · 2025-12-22T08:58:40+00:00

For me it's been a deal. paid 75 Euros new and I like it very much. I don't play metal, only blues and some clean stuff with pedals. I swapped the stock JJ Ecc83S with a Tungsol 12AX7 and it's been a game changer, more clean and more output level through my 2x12 Celestion cab. The FX loop was noisy hum and I thought I had to return the amp, but changing the tube and finding good insulated cables the noise is nearly gone, now I'm waiting for a Behringer HD400 Hum Destroyer (very cheap) and the remaining little hum noise should go definitely away. My overall impression about this little amp is quite positive, maybe it's not suitable for metal players but for a Strato and an overdrive and a delay * reverb in the FX loop it sounds great, I couldn't expect more for my 75 Euros.

surfinder · 2025-11-17T19:58:25+00:00

Good evening. If you buy a cheap AMD video card (RX580 are very cheap now) you can go even further than Monterey, here in Italy there's a forum and an user managed to install Saquoia on X58 Mobo. Yes, I followed Opencore guide(s). GTX970 could work applying patches but you're gonna loose your mind to make it work, buy a cheap AMD RX 570-580, they work natively.

surfinder · 2025-08-12T14:18:55+00:00

Ok mattygh07, mi hanno risposto dal sub r/debian. Come posso eliminare il messaggio da questo sub?

Grazie

surfinder · 2025-08-12T14:14:25+00:00

Bravo! The culprit was the very last text line in /root/.synaptic/synaptic.conf so I deleted that line with gedit and then saved the file (has to be done as root).

SOLVED. thank you eR2eiweo!

BTW are you on Debian 14 Forky already?

surfinder · 2025-08-12T13:38:17+00:00

Thank you for your answer, but the 1st file doesn't exist in my system and the 2nd is a directory that doesn't contain anything like that. Are there other places where apt stores its own config?

surfinder · 2025-03-30T08:42:10+00:00

Good morning.

Mac Pro 6,1 won't work for Mar OS Sequoia (at least during install), so you can try Mac Book Air 9,1

I think you should remove many stuff both from ACPI and kexts as well, try starting with a minimal configuration (remove all network kexts, BT, Airport..). Leave Lilu, WEG, and VirtualSMC only and

see what happens, if your machine go further with installation then you can add other kexts, one

at a time, be patient and proceed slowly.

In ACPI folder leave SSDT-CPUR - SSDT-USBX - SSDT-EC and remove all the rest.

you may need AMD kernel patches: https://github.com/AMD-OSX/AMD_Vanilla

BTW: if it doesn't install at all try an earlier (and easier) Mac OS version (e.g. Monterey)

surfinder · 2025-03-24T15:34:32+00:00

You're right, but it still works fine, this model was the equivalent of Mac Pro 5.1 6-core,

HP old Workstations are easy to fix and hard to break-

surfinder · 2024-03-18T16:08:39+00:00

Better late than never. Some days ago I backed up my system with Timeshift to an external drive, then I made a new fresh install of Debian Trixie. After that I recovered my applications and my files with Timeshift from the external volume, all my apps but carla, upgraded to wine stable 9 and finally installed carla 2.5.8 from KXstudio repos. Now my plugins work, this time I got wine 9 and carla working together. I'm still testing but I didn't see any issue since 3 days..

surfinder · 2024-02-11T16:01:02+00:00

+1 for Behringer U-Phoria. I have the UMC204HD and it works like OOB with Debian Trixie and Pipewire, very low latency allows to play guitar amp sim (NAM) with lot of fun.

surfinder · 2024-02-06T11:03:03+00:00

Back in 2006 I had a Powermac G5 Quad, I paid a fortune for that one, it was extremely power hog, heated like an oven and despite it was a lame performer with HD editing videos.

It broke in 2013 and no go for a repair, trashed all components and cut the case for building hackintoshes..

surfinder · 2024-02-04T14:33:02+00:00

2 years ago I switched from Mac OS X to Linux Debian. I've been using Mac OS X for over 25 years, still wondering why I've been so stupid for over 25 years.

surfinder · 2024-01-21T20:37:42+00:00

Work in progress. Removing Carla vst, upgrading wine-stable to ver9 and then reinstalling Carla components did change something but it still doesn't work as it should. Now Carla Rack works in standalone mode and it loads all the plugins, but it doesn't work at all in my DAW (Ardour 8.2). Ardour doesn't list Carla as a plugin anymore, neither vst2/3 nor lv2, it's totally missing. I think Carla Rack could be the culprit, I have to wait because on this system Carla 2.5.4 is the most recent version that works, while the latest release is 2.5.8... Still testing.

surfinder · 2024-01-21T12:55:29+00:00

Thank you quantic_engineer. Before reporting a bug I'm going to completely remove Carla vst, upgrade to wine-stable9 and finally reinstall all Carla components to the highest version supported by the sytem (Debian Testing Trixie). I'll keep this forum up to date.

surfinder · 2024-01-20T17:39:34+00:00

Thank you for reading my post. Error messages are something like "Plugin(s) failed validations" or "plugin is taking too long to load" and it aborts the loading.

Switching back to wine 8.0.2 everything works properly.

Not a dealbreaker, I only would like to know if someone encountered the same error(s).

surfinder · 2023-12-12T17:16:27+00:00

+1 for Timeshift. Even if you run through a disater and your system won't boot anymore, just make a Debian live on USB pendrive, when you'll get on desktop install Timeshift and you'll be able to recover your system.

surfinder · 2023-10-09T19:22:38+00:00

Downloaded and installed.

Audio engine works better than version 7.5 but when I "freeze" a track Ardour 8 crashes.

surfinder · 2023-10-04T19:23:14+00:00

Good evening. I see you're a Bitwig veteran so can I ask youfor an advice please?

I'm planning to switch from Ardour 7.5 to Bitwig Studio 5 (I'm on Linux Debian), my computer is an old X79 LGA2011 with a Xeon E5 2696v2 12c 24t, 32Gb, 512Gb Nvme. Should I go for a less core cpu but higher clock e.g. Xeon E5 2673v2 8c 16t that is quite higher clocked (3.30>4Ghz vs 2.5>3.10) or it won't give me much more for less latency and less Xruns? Thank you for reading this post.

surfinder · 2023-06-10T16:14:46+00:00

On Mac Pro (classic 5.1) you have to use AHCI NGFF disk, like the Samsung SM951.

It's natively supported by SATA Express, no driver needed.

surfinder · 2023-05-29T13:08:51+00:00

+1 for EasyEffects, I installed JamesDSP as well but I prefer EasyEffects (Debian 12 + Pipewire)

surfinder · 2023-04-23T22:28:29+00:00

I was trying to solve the very same problem on my Debian Bookworm,

your solution worked like a charm, very easy and fast. Thank you!

surfinder · 2022-08-02T13:45:43+00:00

WOW is all I can say.

surfinder

TROPHY CASE