I mostly play using my neck pickup, which is a Seymour Duncan mini-humbucker. I was trying to get a sticker off the pickguard and I don't think I put the pickup back in properly. I'm actually looking at getting a set of vintage pickups and maybe a new bridge because the neck on my tele is still the nicest I've ever played on. As for my amp... well I sold my VOX Valvetronix to help pay for my Gretsch banjo and now am just using a Line 6 tone port. I do want to get something new but I have always had a hard time coughing up the money for nicer amps. Most of my instruments are folk instruments and I'm moving more towards considering myself a banjo and mandolin player so it's even harder to find a reason to buy a nice expensive amp. I definitely think my tele will sound better when I get new pickups put it.

If you change your mind consider a blues jr. You can get them used for 250 and they sound incredible. Hook it into a cab if you really need more headroom, if not it is a light easy to work tube amp that kicks serious ass.

I was actually playing around with a Fender Mustang II at GuitarCenter on my lunch break and I quite liked it. It's a little more electronic for my tastes and in some ways feels a lot like my Vox Valtronix with all the effects and things on board, but for the cost of $200 I think there's some major value there. I don't really expect on playing guitar in a band any time soon so I don't really need to worry about volume, and even at 40W I had to be told to turn it down twice.

I use feet and inches and calculate trips in miles and miles per gallon when driving yet............and this is the truly f*cked up part, all those measurements had long been phased out and we'd gone metric before I was even born

I used to own the valvtronix ad30, I hated it. Only decent sound it got was the clean and effects. Anything with overdrive or distortion and especially pedals made it sound like ****.

Yeah that was the same one and I had and yeah it sounded pretty horrible. I imagine the Tweed settings would sound pretty good for country, but I was pretty unimpressed. I think if I were to go VOX I'd get an AC15, but really I've never been lucky with practice combo amps, however I have a good feeling about this Fender Mustang.

Today I read in the paper that 30 people died when a bus overturned in India. This was a small paragraph on page 6. If it had happened in the UK, anywhere in Europe or the US it would be on the front page and first item on TV news. It's the same when ferries loaded with people sink off the Philippines and most of them drown. Is it because for some reason, people's lives or deaths in third world countries aren't worth as much as people in 1st world countries. It would seem to be so.

I totally agree that it's only publicly mentioned if it's in a well known western country. Although Syria is mentioned on the news every night.

Same thing happens in our own country.............take the "Wellington earthquake". lol

It is easier to live if you close your eyes and pretend you don't know about the third world countries at all. That's why.

It is easier to believe everything is all right and continue to living in a bubble...