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sitting here in limbo...

...as one of the worst fires in colorado history rages out of control a few miles -- hopefully still more than ten -- away from my house, having blown up from 2 acres saturday morning to about 40,000 acres today. my wife and I are okay, but evacuated, unable to go back. My axe-fx and all my...
- bongo
- Thread
- Jun 11, 2012
- Replies: 13
- Forum: The Lounge
argh...headphone jack advice needed

The headphone jack on my Axe-Fx just re-enacted the old joke about the hooker and the leper, and kept the tip. Plug went in TRS, came out RS. The tip is stuck in the back of the jack. How the heck can I get it out again?
- bongo
- Thread
- Oct 29, 2011
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Axe-Fx II Discussion
Nashua->Shrewsbury->Hodgkins...why do I know these names?

It's going to be a long couple of days, I think.
- bongo
- Thread
- Aug 2, 2011
- Replies: 6
- Forum: The Lounge
Envelope tips for dummies?

Looking for some help in applying either envelopes or ASDRs to achieve a couple kind of basic things... 1) A simple fast volume swell, as if rolling up the volume knob just after picking a note. sensitive enough to retrigger with each new note edge. 2) A similar round-every-note effect in...
- bongo
- Thread
- Jul 28, 2010
- Replies: 10
- Forum: Ultra/Std Discussion
a small slice of fractal evolution

It occurred to me last night that I've now been a happy Ultra user for a little less than nine months. I came on board shortly after the release of firmware 6.0x, which I believe many thought was itself a significant step forward. For me it was the baseline for starting to learn how to...
- bongo
- Thread
- Aug 6, 2009
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Ultra/Std Discussion
old dogs, new tricks.

Shortly before my tenth birthday, something happened which made me realize what I wanted to play with creatively in this life: The Beatles released the Revolver album. By the time they followed that up with Sgt Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, and Abbey Road, I was convinced that multitrack...
- bongo
- Thread
- Jun 11, 2009
- Replies: 10
- Forum: Ultra/Std Recordings
Mesa "Black Shadow & "Vintage Black Shadow": any good IRs?

When I'm not playing through powered monitors, I play through a Mesa 50/50 into two 1x12 Mesa cabs: my old Studio 22, which has an otherwise unmarked "Mesa Black Shadow", and a second which has a "Vintage Black Shadow" apparently made for Mesa by EV. Does anybody know of IRs which might be a...
- bongo
- Thread
- Apr 7, 2009
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Amps and Cabs
anyone have problems with volume/pan block not working?

I've noticed on occasion trying to load a preset from axechange and hearing no sound at all. That happened again with presets I was trying to audition last night, and troubleshooting the signal chain isolated the problem to "Volume/Pan 1". With this block in the signal chain, no sound at...
- bongo
- Thread
- Jan 5, 2009
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Ultra/Std Bugs