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teb wrote:I heard that Steve Lasko developed a very early aptitude for electronics and invented the JangleBox at when he was only three - while all the other kids in his age group were still playing with LEGO. Unfortunately, he had to wait five more years until he was big enough to hold a twelve-string to try it out.

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teb wrote:I heard that Steve Lasko developed a very early aptitude for electronics and invented the JangleBox at when he was only three - while all the other kids in his age group were still playing with LEGO. Unfortunately, he had to wait five more years until he was big enough to hold a twelve-string to try it out.

All TRUE! How did you find out?!

It's all in the Ken Burns documentary they showed on PBS...

I tried 2 compressors last night. I used a Jbox and a Boss CE2. Test guitars were a 66 450-12 with toasters and an 88 360-12 with hi-gains. Amp was a HiWatt. Running both compressors did not make the sound much better. The Boss was better with the hi-gains, making them chimey. The Jbox sounded better with the toasters. The bright switch made the bridge pickup sound very thin. On bright, the neck pick up was noticeably brighter. This wasn't true of the hi-gains. I noticed that the Jbox sounded very dark or muffled (like your tone knob all the way off) when using the normal or dark settings. Has anyone else noticed this or are my ears just that bad?

I tried my 370-12 RM wet thru the Jbox, once and found no reason to do it again.
But run dry into the Jbox was a bit better sounding than the on board one, volume control being the best improvement.
Then I can switch uncompressed-to-compressed without a volume change;can't do that w/the onboarder.
The Jbox really shines with the 660-12.

I just stuck a sound sample in the Rick Recordings section of some experiments with two compressors.

janglebox wrote:

teb wrote:I heard that Steve Lasko developed a very early aptitude for electronics and invented the JangleBox at when he was only three - while all the other kids in his age group were still playing with LEGO. Unfortunately, he had to wait five more years until he was big enough to hold a twelve-string to try it out.

All TRUE! How did you find out?!

He was one of those kids playing with legos...

Nope, when I was a kid they hadn't invented Lego yet. We played with real toys - like dirt and sticks. Stuff that you could poke your eye out with (dart guns with the suction cups removed from the darts), stuff that you could choke to death on if you stuck it in your mouth (we just considered it part of natural selection), soap-box derby cars that somebody's older brother had built (why bother to block off the street? ...the cars will go around you). Water-rockets, or red plastic goo in a tube that you could blow bubbles with (probably horribly toxic). Any toy that couldn't send you to the emergency room or cause brain damage was hardly worth messing with. Real toys for real kids. None of this modern, nanny-state stuff. I still wonder how the hippy generation, with all of our free-this, free-that, do your own thing philosophy turned into such a batch of over-protective weenies, thinking that they have to legislate safety for everybody - prosecuting twelve-year-old kids for bringing an aspirin to school because they have a headache.......geeeeze.....

Tell us how you really feel, Todd.
I hear ya
JimK

Todd I agree... I had a Matel six shooter which you put sticky round caps on the end of the shell and a grey plastic tip would be spring loaded into the the front. And yes it did shoot them. Just like a real gun. And nobody ever shot their eye out or anything.... ahhhh the good 'ole daze.....

Yep. Ever try to poke your eye out by running with a pool noodle? Where's the fun in that?

teb wrote:Nope, when I was a kid they hadn't invented Lego yet. We played with real toys - like dirt and sticks. Stuff that you could poke your eye out with (dart guns with the suction cups removed from the darts), stuff that you could choke to death on if you stuck it in your mouth (we just considered it part of natural selection), soap-box derby cars that somebody's older brother had built (why bother to block off the street? ...the cars will go around you). Water-rockets, or red plastic goo in a tube that you could blow bubbles with (probably horribly toxic). Any toy that couldn't send you to the emergency room or cause brain damage was hardly worth messing with. Real toys for real kids. None of this modern, nanny-state stuff. I still wonder how the hippy generation, with all of our free-this, free-that, do your own thing philosophy turned into such a batch of over-protective weenies, thinking that they have to legislate safety for everybody - prosecuting twelve-year-old kids for bringing an aspirin to school because they have a headache.......geeeeze.....

I hear ya, Todd. For a generation that was anti just about everything but sex and drugs, we sure turned into a bunch of legislating dictators.

ram wrote:Todd I agree... I had a Matel six shooter which you put sticky round caps on the end of the shell and a grey plastic tip would be spring loaded into the the front. And yes it did shoot them. Just like a real gun. And nobody ever shot their eye out or anything.... ahhhh the good 'ole daze.....

You had one of those too? Well so did I! Great fun.
JimK

I still have my "Shootin Shell" rifle up in the attic. If Bloomberg knew that, I'd probably get arrested.

teb wrote:Yep. Ever try to poke your eye out by running with a pool noodle? Where's the fun in that?

Or the learning experience?

I ate potato salad that sat out most of the afternoon, climbed trees, swam in creeks.... I guess I'm a thrill seeker