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  • #22076
    1bassleft
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    So, you’ve taken a pic of your pride ‘n’ joy and want to put it on Guitarsite for a discussion? Or maybe found some laughable old plank that you want to put up without going through a URL link? Here’s how:

    If a pic is on the web already; easy. Just right-click on the pic, click on ‘properties’ and you’ll get the URL of the image. Select this, copy (ctrl+c) then go back to your message. Click on “Img” button, then paste it (ctrl+v), then click on Img* button, et voila! The pic is in your post.

    Your own digipic is slightly more complicated, but just follow the steps. Remeber, a website (like this one) can’t just read it from your hard drive. You don’t really want us to look at your hard drive do you? Here’s what you do:

    Upload your ’59 LP/ ’62 Strat/ ’04 Stagg pic(s) onto the Web. You can use http://www.photobucket.com or http://www.imagestation.com for free. You will have to register and come up with a password, but that’s all. It’s free because they hope you’ll order photos from them (yeah, right 😆 ).

    Once you’ve done that, you now have your pics on the web. Just like the above, right-click on the pic, click on ‘properties’ and you’ll get the URL of the image. Select this, copy (ctrl+c) then go back to your message. Click on “Img” button, then paste it (ctrl+v), then click on Img* button, et voila! The pic is in your post.

    Sounds complicated, but it isn’t too bad. Any probs; just post a “Bass is talking rubbish” reply here and I’ll try to help.

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    • #71210
      lee_UK
      Participant

      what guitar? the pics are of Basses very nice amp.

    • #71208
      Johnny D
      Participant

      [quote=”lee_UK”]Wheres my magnifying glass? 😆
      are you sure it’s an amp? from here it looks like a MXR Phaser, can you do an example of a bigger picture using the procedure described? :shock:[/quote]” I have that same guitar, so F.Y.O.L.!!!” 😡

    • #71213
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Talk about me going off topic Bass!! this one went off on a tagent, turned left, went past go, did a 180, did NOT go to jail, chatted to the neighbour about the milkman being late, then trotted up the street to Sainsbury for 2 jam donuts and a cream slice and is currently somewhere round the dark side of the moon!! 😆

      Talk yer way out of that one..

      15 love.

    • #71212
      1bassleft
      Participant

      😥 The Laney is very packed away now but, IIRC, the serial number is 6896. Here’s the best of three images taken of the caps and resistors:
      #http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid190/p6878179ee4f5e139df79006fffd2df09/f1ed21b7.jpg

      I tried to close in on the resistors but it’s just a 1meg, compact camera. It was too much for the autofocus to handle.

    • #71193
      doompixie
      Participant

      thanks for that, i will get piccies of my amp on thursday when i am at home, i shouldnt have any problems getting hold of the resistors as im studying electronics engineering at university so i should be able to get some through the uni.
      the capacitors sound right from what i can remember aswell except my amp has 8 of the larger capacitors. the entire circuit is on one board as opposed to two and the rectifier diodes are in two straight lines down the side of the board next to the capacitors ( obviously so they could fit the extra cap’s in. would be interesting to compare serial numbers and work out which of the amps is newer. will get pic’s of mine for all to see anyway and when i get my HH solid state amps back i will get some pic’s of them aswell and post them up.
      Thank’s,
      Owen

    • #71191
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Owen, I’ve just opened up the Laney. I wanted to try it out as a PA for playing CDs ( 😯 ), so I thought I’d have another look inside while I had an afternoon going. I’ve taken a closer photo, which I’ll upload later, but I think the description will be more useful to you:

      6 Large filter caps (brand EIRE, JF407T AYU) 32uF, 350v DC
      2 smaller caps (JF554AT, YYW) 16uF, 450v DC

      The two resistors you’re interested in are as follows:

      Upper resistor; Red, Red, Orange (poss red, but I think orange), Silver which I make to be a 2W, 22kilohm/10% tolerance
      Lower resistor: Yellow, Violet, Orange (see above), Silver = 2W, 47kilohm/10%

      If the “orange” bands were red, then these resistors would be 2.2 and 4.7 kilohms respectively, but that doesn’t sound right to me. I’m pretty sure they’re orange. I might to be able to look up a supplier of carbon comp resistors in my favourites list. Let me know if any further help is needed.

      BTW, I replaced the 12AX7 in the PI with a Mullard 12AU7. I didn’t notice any great tightening of the response and distortion still comes in fairly early. For my purposes, I’m hoping to delay this a bit by replacing the EL34s with some E34Ls from the old Tesla (pre-JJ) works.

    • #71187
      doompixie
      Participant

      hey, my amp has a white front. i don’t think the two resistors are the same value. or atleast from what i could make out they didnt look like they were in my amp (one of them was badly burned up though so hard to tell) i’ll take a piccie of mine next time im with the amp. i thought i had taken pic’s this time but when i went to load them onto the pc there wernt any on my dv cam 😳 i guess i will try replacing that resistor with one the same value as the one that is in there and power up without any valves in and see if the voltages are within spec for the ecc83’s. i’ll keep you posted. 🙂
      thanks for your help guy’s.
      Owen

    • #71220
      Michael
      Participant

      haha… heck.. I saw it in Owen’s post, didn’t read it, and just assumed that was his. been a while since I’ve looked into this thread. Ah…

    • #71205
      1bassleft
      Participant

      😆 😆 😆 That’s the pic of my own flamin’ amp!! The one I’ve been looking at on my own drive! That has to be the most hilarious Blind Man’s buff ever, the tail was on my own ass 😆 😆 😆

      Owen, see my above posts for the estimation of what I think these resistors are.

    • #71201
      Michael
      Participant
    • #71224
      Michael
      Participant

      Gold / blue

      Sorry 1b… I was between comps before and misread your question. I’ll download and upload the pic so you see for yourself. 1 min.

    • #71235
      1bassleft
      Participant

      OK, that’s a 5% tolerance. See any other colour bands? There should be four in total on a resistor (this is like blind man’s bluff, or “The Golden Shot”)

    • #71222
      1bassleft
      Participant

      My own pic has the crucial resistors obscured by some wiring. The size of them indicates they are 2W each, and the last band looks like silver, so +/- 10% tolerance. I can’t see the first two bands though. Maybe the first is brown, which would mean either 1 kilohm/10% or 1.5 kilohm/10%

      TBH, I’d have to open her up again (ugh) to be sure. Out of interest, Owen, it is a 100W Super PA? And does it have the silver metal or white plexi front panel?

    • #71239
      1bassleft
      Participant

      That was my nan’s cure-all – “empty your cache” 😆 . No, I’d already gone into edit Owen’s post and tried the links. No joy from yours, Mike, even after a reboot. Mike, if you can still see it, can you tell me what colours the bands are on the resistors Owen has marked on the pic?

    • #71217
      Michael
      Participant

      http://img292.imageshack.us/my.php?image=f7bdf29618aw.jpg any more luck? maybe empty your cache.

    • #71204
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Hmmm, I’m just getting an “x” box and, when I click on it, imageshack’s page for the pic refuses to load. Damned AOL.

    • #71228
      Michael
      Participant

      Owen’s most recent pic is working okay for me? maybe I’m looking at the wrong one?

    • #71218
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Sorry Owen, your pic’s not working either. I tried to paste the link into the “Img” function on the “post reply” but it didn’t work out. Perhaps you can email it to me?

    • #71231
      doompixie
      Participant

      hey again,
      thanks for your help, for some reason my computer won’t open the file you sent me, it downloads it and then it just complains that the file is corrupt, i will get some images of my amp up soon as the circuit layout is slightly different on mine, it uses a single board for the entire amp instead of the two boards like yours has and there are a few other differences like mine has 8 of the larger power supply caps and they are in two rows of 4 instead of the single row of 6 that yours has. could you tell me the value or colour code of the two resistors that i have put in the red box on this image please? if not then no worries.
      thank you for being so helpfull,
      Owen

      [URL=http://img292.imageshack.us/my.php?image=f7bdf29618aw.jpg]#http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/6825/f7bdf29618aw.th.jpg%5B/URL%5D

    • #71232
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Owen, I’ve sent the pic as a jpeg attachment to an email. Hope this helps, but come back here if you need any more advice.

    • #71211
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Some early Capacitors were Dual caps, they were 2 caps in 1 can, they had 3 terminals on them, they are hard to get hold of these days, and if you can get the right value they turn out to be 10 times more expensive, the solution is to use 2 caps to replace them. I had the caps on my 1973 HIWATT head replaced in this manner, probably not the answer but worth a mention.

    • #71233
      doompixie
      Participant

      Hi again, the layout of the blue power supply caps on your super pa looks diffrent to mine, pretty sure mine has two rows of caps. i will have a look when i get home but i dont have internet at home so it might be a few days before i can post again. Infact i seem to remember my amp haveing a seperate board for the power supply caps and the rectifier diodes were in a straight line, i could be remembering wrong though, the two resistors i am talking about i cant actually see anywhere in that pic but i have a feeling they could be the two resistors that are going to the two caps in the bottom of the pic you posted. but i have a feeling mine are completely seperate and dont connect together at that side. i will have a look at that site and see if i can work it out. my email address is [email protected]. if you could send me the original image i would apreciate it.
      Thanks for your help,
      Owen

    • #71241
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Hello Owen,

      Here is a picture of the spaghetti side of the Laney Super PA:
      #http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid130/p8b37ba78d8814fbaaf40295a5be892df/f7bdf296.jpg
      There are also pics on a useful site, House-of-Jim; http://members.shaw.ca/house-of-jim/Html/Laney.html. Although my amp just shows up as “x” boxes, you can still click on them and they will appear in a new window. The featured Supergroup is very similar, as far as the power section goes, so you might find this site useful anyway. Also, you can send me a private message with your email address and I can send you the original jpeg so that you can zoom in. I’m afraid the camera was a 1megapixel job, so only a limited number of zooms will be of use.

      Your amp is as standard (BTW, the funny looking silver box near my inputs is just some shielding around the FX send/return), with the six input ECC83s, another ECC83 as mixer and the original ECC82 as the phase inverter. The previous owner replaced it with an 83 and, although I have a number of 82s around, I replaced it with an 83 I had which I knew to have balanced triodes.

      As the PI is not part of the gain circuit, exchanging the 82 for an 83 makes no difference in output. The 82 should ‘tighten up’ the sound and I really ought to put one back in as I use it for bass. For a guitar player, the 83 might make it less controlled and clean-sounding, and this might be preferred by the individual.

    • #75795
      doompixie
      Participant

      hey all, i have a request for 1bassleft, i got given a laney super pa head that i want to modify in similar ways to what you have done but it has a burnt out resistor in the power supply section and i cant tell it’s value, is there any chance you could take a pic of the underside of the amp for me? there are two resistors next to the power supply cap’s, i think they are for powering the preamp section of the amp. my amp works fine except the preamp section is dead so any help would be apreciated. also you say your amp uses 8 x ECC83? mine has 7 x ECC83 and an ECC82. think it is useing the ECC82 as phase splitter, i’ll try an ECC83 in there and see what the difference is after i get it up and running. any help would be greatly apreciated.
      many thanks in advance,
      Owen

    • #71071
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Along the right lines, but Sound City are very talked about and highly priced, now. Even the MkIV, and I can’t see the point in £$£ for one of those. I’ll reveal all on the mod’s forum.

    • #75850
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Sound city by any chance??

    • #75773
      1bassleft
      Participant

      Speaking of which, have you made me “sticky”, Lee 😯 . Not a bad idea; the “how do I post a pic?” does come up intermittently.

      Anyhoo, the amps. The CMI I bought for £65 in 1981, when valve amps were in every seedy, 2nd hand shop down the backstreets. All I knew then was that it sounded the biz. I found out the “Marshall Superlead/bass” story ten years later when I was working for “Making Music” as a freelancer. I last saw a 50W on Fleeb go for £575.

      The Laney is more interesting (for bargain hunters). The PA 100 Super I bought July 2004 for £107 off the Fleeb. It’s basically the same circuit as an (Handel “Hallejuhah!” chorus) Iommi-favoured Supergroup. A guitar amp Supergroup is several hundred, but these PAs regularly appear for sub-£150. The phrase “valve PA” is a massive turn-off, as valve amps frankly stink as vocal PAs. So, (“dur!”) use them for guitar. The main reason I got it is because the seller listed it as six channels, 4xEL34 and 8xECC83 (aka 12AX7).

      Given that one would be the phase inverter (or driver) and one would be the mixer, that left a 12AX7 for each individual input channel. Aye carumba, a different preamp tube for each channel! I do like the CMI best for that typical Superlead/bass sound, but the Laney is more versatile. I haven’t even played around with the six tonestacks yet (apart from an OD mod to channels 5+6). I know of a 200W valve amp that pulls an even better trick, but I’m keeping my mouth shut. I blabbed on a vintage forum and suddenly Fleeb jokers put silly reserves on them.

      I’m patient though. Like Wayne’s World, “Some day, she will be mine”.

    • #70991
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Got my mouth watering there bass, how much did you pay for it? i bet it sounds like a real little minx..

    • #75870
      1bassleft
      Participant

      😆 Those pics are the “thumbnails”. Unlike some people here, I try not to soak up bandwidth just to make a point 😉 . BBscript is pretty simple and doesn’t (AFAIK) allow for image manipulation. The pic size you select is the one you get. TBH, I wish posters would remember this. A wide pic s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-s the whole page of the thread, which means that readers have to use the left/right bar at the bottom to read each post. very tedious.

      Anyhoo, I’ve clicked on one of the Imagestation thumbs to bring up the bigger picture. Not, this time, a dull faceplate but the CMI’s wide-open porn shot:
      #http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid147/p066b4f7db636cee4c00d7b42443ddd91/f635a80b.jpg

      demonstrating its 1959 circuit creds. Whereas the contemporary Marshall superlead/bass MkII version was PCB, the CMI off-shoot retained the pre-’72 tag-board and p2p wiring. Jolly nice it sounds too. While I’m here, I might as well do the money shot of the Laney Super PA:
      #http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid130/p8a0839421dbd6a81a4e136cd0f34d0f6/f7bdf29d.jpg

      A 12AX7 for each input. Without touching the tonestacks, I got a different sound for each channel just by varying the preamp tube. The ine up of pre-tubes is now (1) CV4024 (2) GE 5751 blackplate (3) GE 7025 (4) Mullard ECC83 and 5+6 have been modified to overdrive a Yugoslav Ei and a Chinese groove Tube, respectively. I mean to get around to the tonestacks, though.

    • #71027
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Wheres my magnifying glass? 😆
      are you sure it’s an amp? from here it looks like a MXR Phaser, can you do an example of a bigger picture using the procedure described? 😯

    • #75878
      1bassleft
      Participant

      And, as an example, here’s a couple of my amps. Images posted here from my “Imagestation” account:

      #http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid147/p783df0433b39c3f3b85b5046bd7ecdf4/f635a808.jpg.thumb.jpg

      #http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid130/p6164c7a6ee772c56b7849d94bcdecbb2/f7bdf2a5.jpg.thumb.jpg

      And I’ve just found out it’s best to copy the URL of the pic first, then use the “IMG” button here, paste the link, then click the “*IMG” button.

      Let me know if yours doesn’t work.

    • #71017
      Michael
      Participant

      Great post 1bl.

      May I also suggest http://www.imageshack.us/index.php as another free alternative for quick image hosting. One benefit for new users is that they even provide compatible PHP BB code once you have uploaded your pic for you to copy and paste here. Very simple.

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