Timothy Stockman wrote: > Some guitar amps were designed > so bad that the guitar player, with his hands touching the metal > strings, would get a shock on his lips if they touched the metal > windscreen cage of the vocal mic. A medical isolation transformer > always fixed that problem, as well as the hum it usually caused.
Those same guitar amps are much desired even today. The classic Fender and Marshal amps could easily shock you in setups such as Tim writes. Most than a few guitarists got very nasty shocks. I don't know if there were reported deaths, but the electrocution possibility is real. Of course, when folks replace the awful two prong plugs with modern safe ones, it lowers the value of the amp. Sigh -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
