{"id":688,"date":"2015-03-07T22:39:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T22:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/?p=688"},"modified":"2019-08-22T23:24:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T23:24:30","slug":"firefly-amplifier-and-flying-v-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/2015\/firefly-amplifier-and-flying-v-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefly Amplifier (and Flying V guitar)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back my brother built me this little valve (tube if you live across the Atlantic) amplifier, based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ax84.com\/index.php\/oldprojects.html?project_id=firefly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Firefly circuit<\/a>. I say based as I don&#8217;t know exactly how he did it, but I know it has an extra valve in it for a boost circuit, which is what I am playing through on this video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9bA0rkyQB1Y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Paired with this old Radio Rentals speaker and Gibson Melody Maker Flying V it rocks out pleasantly and is bloody loud!<\/p>\n<p>The Melody Maker V is a great guitar. It&#8217;s a teeny bit smaller than a standard V, which suits me since being 5&#8217;7&#8243; a lot of guitars look just a bit too big for me \ud83d\ude42 But it&#8217;s also nice and light, despite being all maple which can be very dense. Gibsons are traditionally mahogany bodied with rosewood fingerboards (ebony on their custom models) and a lot of people didn&#8217;t like the &#8220;baked maple&#8221; fingerboards that came with these and other Gibson models back in 2012. It plays just great for me however and feels nice and spry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back my brother built me this little valve (tube if you live across the Atlantic) amplifier, based on the Firefly circuit. I say based as I don&#8217;t know exactly how he did it, but I know it has an extra valve in it for a boost circuit, which is what I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,55],"tags":[7,203,205,204,4,207,206],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-2","category-music-technology","tag-amplifier","tag-firefly","tag-flying-v","tag-gibson","tag-guitar","tag-melody-maker","tag-radio-rentals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}