Mine's the PCB reissue but still gets great tone. I use a weber attenuator to crank it without shattering the windows!

...there goes the electric bill! Ha ha ha!

My new quest for tone is to find the perfect compressor "stomp box". There are so many out there. I don't use effects but I used to have a nady compressor that was quite powerful. Had an old ADA that was quite bright too. Many stompbox compressors color the sound too much. And rack mounted compressors cut too many frequencies out. I may just have to build my own stompbox compressor. There are many great kits out there with incredible tone. All you need is a little mechanical aptitude and a soldering iron. Plus you get the pride of saying- "I built that little f*cker". And you save quite a bit on marked up prices. I'm going to BYOB.com to get my compressor. Definitely let everyone know how it pans out.

We have room for everyone. We don't discriminate.

Oh and if you're a gearhead and have lots of gear- insure your gear with high quality surge protectors and lightning protectors. I have 7 of them. Great investment. My dual juice goose saved my gear from a lightning strike once. Direct hit. Lightbulbs popped, coffeemaker exploded. Cooked ground wiring. But protectors saved the studio gear. Yay!

To get my dream sound took a lot of years and a lot of gear. And a lot of money. Always been a marshall man. Owned everything from twin 800s to marshall majors. To get my sound I had to have the right guitar. I've always been amored with gibson flying vs. Owned many of them. I had a slime green one I sold to lenny kravitz. Had a white swampash 83 that I sold to rudy schenker. He sold me a black one. I was playing my les paul with a floyd rose and out of phase switching like jimmy pages for a few years and was looking for another flying v. It came to me on easter sunday 1998 as I was buying strings at a guitar center. An elderly gentleman came into the store with that unique shaped guitar case. I walked over and struck up conversation. He opened up the case and it was an old korina gibson flying v. Said he wanted to sell it and his fingers don't work like they used to and that he just wanted it to go to a good home. I told him I always wanted an old korina wood flying v but could never afford one. I asked him how much he wanted for it knowing it was at the time a $20,000 collectors piece. He said "How much you give me for it?". I told him "Its easter sunday and the banks are closed. All I have in my pocket right now is a thousand bucks. I can give you that and more when the banks open". He says "I will sell it to you for a thousand dollars". I almost broke my arm handing him the cash but completely dumbfounded at the same time. The old man looked at my confused look and once again said "I just want it to have a good home". I said "I promise you it will have a good home". Found out it was one of the last 1958 flying vs made. Been appraised twice. 3rd rarest guitar in the world for collectors. It f*cking screams like no other guitar I've ever owned. I've had ridiculous offers to buy it. I was at the eric clapton auction for charity and was offered 3 of claptons guitars including his mint 61 gibson walnut sg in trade and refused. I'm going to keep my promise to that old man and give that guitar a good home. As an addendum my grandfather passed away 2 years ago. He played lap steel. He left me his 1958 gibson lap steel and a collection of slides. I miss him.