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Month: April 2014

1967 Baldwin Burns Jazz Bass

1967 Baldwin Burns Jazz Bass

Due to a shortage of information on what’s become one of my favorite basses ever, I’m attempting to compile as much as I know about this instrument in a single place. Mine is a 1967. Burns manufactured the Jazz Bass from ’64-’65 (http://www.brianmaycentral.net/burnshistory.html <- Google is saying this site now has malware on it…). Baldwin purchased the company in ’65 and the Jazz bass was continued until ’70 (http://www.guitar-list.com/baldwin/bass-guitars/baldwin-jazz-bass). Specs: 22 frets 30.5″ scale Controls: Pickup selector – 4-position rotary…

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Recovering Data From a Broken USB Flash Drive

Recovering Data From a Broken USB Flash Drive

Last year I was able to extract all the data from a friend’s 16GB USB flash drive that was broken in half when the laptop it was still plugged into was put in a knapsack. It was broken almost cleanly through, so I broke it all the way to expose the guts, cut open a USB cable and soldered wires to the power connector PC board traces. The exposed parts of the traces for the data connectors, however, were torn…

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Repaired Presonus HP4 v1 Headphone/Monitor Amp

Repaired Presonus HP4 v1 Headphone/Monitor Amp

My very useful Presonus HP4 v1 headphone amp fried last Fall. I found another on eBay for not too much, but I hung onto the old one. Turns out they’re full of this quad amp IC, MC33079P, and one on the input stage failed. The chip is obsolete, but I replaced it with an MC33079PG that seems to be the same. Or at least compatible. The hardest part was un-soldering a 14-pin IC without destroying the PC board. I added…

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