Magic_Man
Oh Yea !
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- Dec 4, 2015
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So we have a face behind the name, but what I wanna know is how did you come up with your username ? Very few of us use our real names so I'm curious as to the story behind it all.
My handle Magic_Man came from my early days of guitar amplifier repair. I was green and just learning so I liked to hang out in as many old guitar shops as I could. Absorbing the knowledge from old timers that liked to share. I walked into a shop one day and there sat a Marshall amplifier making the craziest sound I had ever heard. I looked at the Nick the owner and he shrugged his shoulders. Ol Nick said that amp had been to at least three other shops and they had hooked it up to all kinds of fancy diagnostic equipment, oscilloscopes, test loads and such. It had made its rounds and nobody could figure it out over a years time. I asked if I could take a look, he replied with " might as well, can't hurt it." After about ten minutes on the bench I pulled the boards and flipped them over. Sure enough there was a swollen capacitor and another leaking. I asked him if he had replacements and he said yes, but was still reluctant. I soldered in the new parts and fired the ol Marshall up for a test. Sure enough that was the issue and that old amp sang like no other. Ol Nick came running back to the workbench and hollered " God Damn ! You the MAGIC MAN ! ". It's stuck every since, once I started my own full time repair business that name stayed with me.
My handle Magic_Man came from my early days of guitar amplifier repair. I was green and just learning so I liked to hang out in as many old guitar shops as I could. Absorbing the knowledge from old timers that liked to share. I walked into a shop one day and there sat a Marshall amplifier making the craziest sound I had ever heard. I looked at the Nick the owner and he shrugged his shoulders. Ol Nick said that amp had been to at least three other shops and they had hooked it up to all kinds of fancy diagnostic equipment, oscilloscopes, test loads and such. It had made its rounds and nobody could figure it out over a years time. I asked if I could take a look, he replied with " might as well, can't hurt it." After about ten minutes on the bench I pulled the boards and flipped them over. Sure enough there was a swollen capacitor and another leaking. I asked him if he had replacements and he said yes, but was still reluctant. I soldered in the new parts and fired the ol Marshall up for a test. Sure enough that was the issue and that old amp sang like no other. Ol Nick came running back to the workbench and hollered " God Damn ! You the MAGIC MAN ! ". It's stuck every since, once I started my own full time repair business that name stayed with me.
