Introduce yourself, you bastard!!!

[Sauniere]

Joseph Lee. 36 years old. Former chef turned chef instructor for a culinary work study program for special ed. high school kids(kids with behavioral issues and ADD, ADHD...). I play a little bit of piano, sax, drums, but mostly guitar. My culinary career has never allowed me to really pursue music like I would have liked to have. But it did afford me a few nice toys like my one and only D*A*M MKII. Just moved to Brooklyn from Chicago back in Oct. I listen to everything from Miles Davis to Black Mayonnaise, but my first musical obsessions and the reason I originally picked up the guitar were Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Mercyful Fate.

[squarewave]

Yeah being a chef bites, I did it for 10 years.

[fortran106]

I'm Steve, 30 in a few months, and I live just outside Nottingham. I work in acoustic consultancy (which covers everything from noise at work to designing schools to letting the government know the cost in terms of noise of a new motorway), but I used to design loudspeakers for a living for a while (not for Celestion, sadly).

I started off listening to mainly shoegazing and alt rock back in the early 90s, but my tastes broadened and I now love most forms of music, but have a particular fondness for post rock and electronica.

I started playing guitar when I was 16, but I've never had the commitment to get very good at it. Suffice to say I will never be doing any sound clips! I also used to make electronic music (hence the forum name - I used to do stuff under the name fortran), but have now come back to playing guitar as my main musical release since I became a dad and found that all my spare time magically disappeared. I now certainly do not have time for spending 5 hours an evening in front of a computer!

I first heard about D*A*M through the matamp forum, but never managed to get hold of one until CONAN sold his red deluxe. I'm now addicted and find the need to expand my collection whenever I can.

[Fuhgawz]

The name is Dennis, but some call me 'Diamond'. I just turned 25 last month and live in a town near Eindhoven in the Netherlands. I am going to graduate my marketing management master in about a month. I currently play in a heavy rock n roll band called Knoke. Before, I was in a cover band, a stoner/doom band and (briefly) in a sludge/noise band.

I thank forumite imlikeajungle very much for selling most of his gear, because I bought his 90s reissue Orange OR120. It is currently sitting on top of a beat-up old Laney cab with Eminence Governors, but that might change in the (near) future. I play an SG special with a Rio Grande BBQ bucker by the bridge and Gibson 57 classic by the neck.
Current pedals are a RMC Wheels of Fire wah, DIY Ampeg Scrambler (GGG), MI Audio Blues Pro, clean boost/cut pedal which I use to clean up the amp when necessary, Korg DT-10 pedaltuner, EHX Small Stone and an 80s Ibanez DML Modulation Delay, which is digital but awesome! Then I have some rotating pedals, like a Fuzz Factory, Small Clone and an Ibanez PM7 Phase Modulator, which I don't use all the time. Still figuring out the 'definitive' pedalboard. Although I know deep down that such a thing does not exist. ;)

The reason I came here (as also stated in another thread) was to try and get my hands on a Sonic Titan. I want to replace the Blues Pro and imlikeajungle loved his Sonic Titan when he still owned the OR120, so that is an obvious pedal to try. But I have to wait some more for that though. I currently have a Red Baron Meathead on the way, which will undoubtedly be awesome. Those BIN wars are such a rush btw!! :)

[Sauniere]

Yeah being a chef bites, I did it for 10 years.

Amen.

[thesjkexperience]

I am Scott and I am 46 year old guitaraholic. It is almost all I think about anymore as I cant ski race and instruct due to getting metal rods in my back a few years ago, and with my 4 year old (drummer) and 10 month old twins I cant get out and ride my bike at all let alone the 100 mile events I used to do. I have 4 collage degrees and am now a full time Dad and collecting disability due to my back injury. My other hobbies are camping and photography (outdoor mostly).

I write spacey music in the vein of Pink Floyd and other textualists along with writing some folk tunes on my acoustics. I am also a blues fanatic! I grew up with classic rock and was fortunate enough to see the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show when I was 2 which started this whole thing rolling. Unfortunately, my Dad hated music and I didnt get to start playing until I left for College. Due to the kids sucking up all my time I am not currently in a band and dont even get to jam that often

In person I am known as a gentle giant due to my height, soft spokeness and kind nature. Part of why I tend to lurk more than post I suppose that is the end of BIN auctions for me.

I have three amp with my favorites being a Swart STR tweed and a Victoria 20112 w/ celestion blue speaker. My main guitars are all vintage style Strats with each having different wood construction and different style pickups. I have gone from having no effects three years ago to having about 15! My main fuzz is a Meathead and I expect my main germanium booster to be a Red ROoster when I get my hands on one this April (or so). My other favorite effects are a Vibe pedal which is currently a Mojo Vibe, but I am going to get a Mini Deja soon due to more throb at slower speeds, and my Teese Wheels of Fire wah (which I actually dont use enough). Love my Evidence audio Lyric HG cables as well. I have a number of lovely Martins as well.

[zerorez]

Hello all Fuzz Brothers!, here is a picture of me hanging out watching Football at a friends house between beers, I mean quarters (lol)

I was born in 1964, curently 44 years old, love Music, Cars, Guitars, Amps etc, work in the Information Technology sector.

Discovered the D*A*M board about 8 months ago and fell in love with the 1st DAM pedal I acquired and can't wait for The Captain's lists to open up again.

I really enjoy hanging out here and the laid back atmosphere as compared to other forums.

I have corresponded with so many cool people here it feels like home with the knowledge and passion of great music gear.

Many Thanks to Sickle, The Captain and Linzi for making this forum enjoyable and creating some of the best guitar pedals hands down!

Cheers
Joe

[minimoog56]

A Jersey boy raised just outside the failing NYC of the 1970's - raised on Patti Smith, Television, Jazz and King Crimson... Interested in the psychedlic and transcendental altho' I gave up the droogs decades ago - I now find my epiphanies in the music of this outer space Sun Ra world - focusing lately on escoteric funks and souls from all continents - Fela Fela Fela...... Never understood speed metal but dug kossof, Free, and the like... boris, ad other Japrock bands like Taj Mahal Travellers rule... Julian Cope is a brilliant writer...

Scooled in Chicago where my proto post-punk pop band opens for the dead-boys while playing "Copraphilia"... Closest thing to glory days - dayglo menacing fun... Squatted in SE16 London and Berlin Kreuzberg in the 80's during the second "Battle of Britain" aka Miners versus Maggie Maggie maggie out out out.... Fought the Law and won... then studied design and the law a bit and lost...

Moved to California (East Bay) 30 years ago and never looked back... California gave me an obsession for Leo Fender and the mythology of Brian Wilson, Pacific Ocean Blue and the glories of the Redwood Kingdom - ALways had a thing for Grace Slick but Velvets under the ground as well...Too many sounds - beatnik glories.. etc... Ohhmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Working for our government - a bureaucratic tree hugger... by the Golden Gate... Just got a cool new young boss (Obama is not the same as the old boss thank you very much Pete)

Springsteen had me transfixed since I saw him at a Bar Mitzvah in Deal in 1971 with hope and gas fumes on the shore as a kid... sleeping under the boardwalk at the Casino in Asbury Park in '73 after Neil Young and Crazy Horse sang "Don't be Denied"... at 16 a stones throw from Danelectro World HQ as they were shutting down - ... A passion for Telecasters unshakeable and rooted at da shore where I picked up my first boat anchor tele' at Redbank Guitars in '75 - Got to dig the working man's geetar a plank that was born at the junction of form and function - twang and Don Rich too... Been murdering those same three chords in novel ways ever since... It all takes me in. RUMBLE and Howlin' Wolf Babeeeee....

Two daughters, incredible wife who definately does not understand $300 fuzz boxes or why things like that exist. Too many really amazing amps in the garage somewhere down below me right now in garage land - Always too many pedals although favs are modulation based - Klemt, Dynachord, Echo-plex plex plex, Fender Reverb units,,,.. Fuzz is a snappy distraction that has ruined my once perfect hearing...

I have a complement of D*A*M tonebender(s) and a meathead in Dodge Dart beige, errrrr... I mean hammertone grey - nuthin special - but the ones I kept sound wonderful through our many taling furnitures of mid-50's, early to late sixties blonde and blackface Fender amps and Jennings AC-40 These keep me company in my lonely idyll/reveriiee Road runner road runner - going faster miles an hour now - with my radio on...

Oh yeah - my sonic re-search includes a ton of recent Moog stuff and sequencers, Jomox, Frostwave and other analog PCB consturcted space toys - rock-on... Gristle throbbing... What is up with genesis P Orridge anyhow?

[zbouc01]

Hey everybody, Zeke from pittsburgh - I'm 29 and my main loves are the Beatles, Sabbath, Maiden, and TOOL. I only acquired my first DAM about 4 months ago, but I've been a long time admirer. And I just got my brand new granny smith Dragonfly which I would not sell to save my mother. well......

My main rig is a mesa roadster thru a couple different 2x12's, but I'm also a bass player at heart and've been running a B&G meathead through a SS ampeg rig via a souped-up detuned fender mustang which sounds insanely evil. I can honestly say I will never part with either of these monsters, especially since each happens to have a quote from the Big Lebowski - how did Dave/Linzi know this is one of my favorite flicks? +(I know a thing or two about a thing or two-)

But seriously, I think the captain is a master and a gentleman - both personally and professionally - and if I weren't such a broke-ass loser I would partake in more of the action... but for now I am glad to just stand on the sidelines and enjoy learning from the experts on the subject and enjoying the insanity that is the DAm forum.

[Qubit]

Hi, I'm Birger from Antwerp, Belgium and I'm a month away from turning 26. I have a masters degree in Philosophy but currently work in a music store in the hitech departement, which means seling recording equipment and synthesizers. I've been playing guitar on and off for the past 12 years but only the last years a serious fuzz addiction emerged. I'm currently in the process of recording a new demo for my post-rockish band Karoshi, which, during overdubbing turned into a fuzz fest on the heavier parts. I'm mainly playing my AVRI jaguar and a modded 70's Musicmaster thru a modded Dynacord Bass-King (which used to belong to imlikeajungle) and a Bogner OS212 with Greenbacks. Between my guitar and amp there is an abundance of effects (white Sonic Titan included )