<p>Since my daughter has been learning a bit of guitar in the last several months, I've actually gotten my old electric guitar and amplifier back out again after many years in the closet. The amp is a Peavey Bandit 65, which was a an affordable solid-state workhorse kind of amp back in the mid-80s and I've had it since it was new. In this episode I talk through the process of removing the brains of the amp and cleaning the potentiometers to try to get rid of some of the static that's happening when I turn the knobs. I also discover belatedly that the reason I was not getting any distortion when I turned the saturation up was that the amp was stuck on the clean channel — shows how long it's been since I used the amp, I kind of forgot how the thing works!</p>

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<h2>Links</h2>

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	<li><a href="https://peavey.com/">Peavey Electronics Corporation</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.fender.com/products/electric-guitars/stratocaster">The Fender Stratocaster</a></li>
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<h2>Credits</h2>

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	<li>Music bumpers are from Kimiko Ishizaka's <em>The Open Goldberg Variations</em>: <a href="https://www.opengoldbergvariations.org/">https://www.opengoldbergvariations.org/</a>, used by permission of their <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication license</a>.</li>
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