#Used amp steps full

Perhaps, if this wasn't a Sunday morning, you'd have your amp tech slowly apply voltage to make sure there were no unforeseen problems before full voltage is unleashed into the circuit, and thus avoid any costly issues. After some time spent with a damp cloth and shop vac, you're ready to get down to it. You look the amp over, trying to see the gem under the filth, dried paint splotches, and obvious years of neglect. In the door and past your starving family (dang-I knew I forgot something) and into the basement you go. After deft and masterful negotiations that get the seller down from $200 to $195.50, you race home to check out your treasure. Now, shaking with excitement, you try to contain yourself as you go to pay for your purchase. Then, eureka! You push your way past the Hungry Hippos game and Tijuana Brass albums to your prize: a filthy and very tired-looking silverface Fender Champ. Rrrrrrrr! Out of the car! Walking quickly, but not so quickly as to arouse suspicion, you frantically scan the dark recesses for anything that resembles a musical instrument. Will it be me who finds the mint '59 Bassman and Les Paul that must certainly be waiting there?Ĭutting the wheel, you skid around the corner and up to the address. The person with the sign looks old enough to have cool stuff and I'm the first to see this sign. Your mind begins racing as you do the math. You see someone staking a garage sale sign at the corner. I'll bet most of us have experienced this: You're en route to the grocery store on a pleasant Sunday morning, not a care in the world except getting home for breakfast in a timely manner … and then it happens.