I love these! I’ve been doing my part to support the Michigan state DOT. Every so often I get another one for my birthday, and drive it around for a while. I don’t know why any of these were not taken, but it seems the usual vanity plate crowd does not play much guitar. I […]
Author: danpaw
My name is Dan, and I own MyTubeAudio, LLC, a small West Michigan service that offers exclusively While You Wait repair for tube-based equipment. I have been building and servicing tube amps for over 30 years. During the day I am a mild-mannered Senior EMC Test Engineer for Gentex Corp, where I get to play with seriously good RF equipment, design and build test setups, make antennas and devise new applications for test and measurement equipment. At night I'm either repairing gear, building something new or playing guitar, which is one of my serious passions. I also love audio production, playing out live, hold an Extra-Class FCC License and have a family and two great cats. Since 1989, when I stopped watching television altogether, I have found I can get a lot more done in life.
Sticky Fingers Mark II, 2019’s last breath.
Well, it’s christmas, 2019, and what should appear in my stocking? A nice new Sennheiser e609 microphone. What better way to try it out than to make a recording with it on the 1966 Vibrolux , using the 1998 Stratocaster Deluxe? This has been my main guitar for many years, I bought it new in […]
The TET isn’t offensive, but your tube might be.. a new Small Signal Triode Evaluation Tool with real-time RTA
I’ve been buying tubes for a long time, and arguably I buy more tubes than most folks. In the last 10 years alone, I’ve documented several hundred tube amp repairs, many of them requiring tubes. Over time, I’ve read a lot of opinions and evaluations on tube brands and sound. In particular, the mysterious conversation […]
Dan Brasier, owner, MyTubeAudio, LLC
Hi, I’m Dan, and this is a bit about me, circa 2018, and the website in general. My interests, at least those I invest time into: Tube Amplifiers: repair, restoration, construction, Musical Instruments, Music live performance, recording, production, Radio Frequency technology, including amateur radio and antenna work, Woodworking, plastics, metalworking, The challenge of repairing things […]
A Solid State of Affairs
OK, so I only work on tube gear for hire. There are good reasons for that, but electronics is still my life and, for that matter, my liveleyhood. I love building things, both solid state and tube-based, and even more so when that thing makes sound. One of the liabilities of my guitar pedalboard was […]
Getting back into Harmony
I have a customer, (or his friend, rather) who has sponsored the restoration of the guitar of his youth. I understand the owner’s health is not great, and his resources limited, so this is a laudable act of friendship. As it turns out, the collectors rather enjoy this model, so I’ll post something about it […]
Reconing an 18″ JBL pro driver – a bird’s eye view…
Sometimes you get a surprise, and sometimes, even when it’s bad, it works out. A couple of years ago I bought some used JBL subs. We had been renting them for Rocket 8 gigs, once a month for several months, so at some point I decided it would make more sense to just buy them […]
Getting the Automatic back into a SABA 400 Automatic 10
Seems like I’ve played with a lot of SABA radios in recent times. I was introduced to them when I was first given one in the early 2000’s by a work colleague back in Germany, where I spent about 8 years of my career. Nice radios, and WAY overbuilt. The SABA ”greencone” drivers enjoy a […]
The Home Studio
I’ve been a big fan of recording since I was a kid. I remember sometime around age 13 I had bought a pair of Realistic mics and was experimenting at length with mic placement on our piano in the basement, trying to get a decent stereo recording on my trusty Pioneer CTF-500 tape deck. I […]
All the way to Mercury and back for a Line 6 DT-50…
A flicker of hope for those DT-50 owners who have suffered a blown power transformer (or two)… If you read the forums, even on Line 6’s own support pages, you will quickly recognize that something went quite wrong with the DT50 amplifier. It has also mysteriously disappeared from their catalog without explanation leaving its little […]
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