Happy Birthday to my empeg

And another picture taken slightly to the left of the previous one.

Stig

Not a bad set of guesses there

That Little Marshall rocks - one watt of pure power!

The 5L - I wish it would die, then I would have an excuse to buy a new one! But it just keeps on going...

And why would I have audio CDs? They all go straight up to the attic as soon as they are ripped. Sadly the CDs are all data...and lots of versions of everything, for support purposes.

I'm thinking of moving my CDs into the attic now I have everything ripped as FLACs. Having been up there in the summer I've realised how hot it gets up there. Is it really a good place to put them?

Hmm, thought that might be the case, I've got some old CDs which are in a delicate state already. The only problem with the understairs cupboard is i'll have to relocate the Studer. SWMBO will not be happy.

I strongly recommend these DJ cases with the archival pockets. I use four of them to store my collection, and they do not take up too much space. Depending on the amount of space in your cupboard, the two might both fit.

I'm assuming you've just chucked the jewel cases then?

I had chucked (well, recycled) mine, after removing artwork, etc. But the jewel boxes could be stored in an attic without any trouble.

I can easily see the jewel boxes sealed in cardboard storage boxes, taped shut and labeled at the bottom of a pile as some future archiologist picks over them with delight. Only to be dismayed at finding the rare and fragile contents missing...

Think I'll just get one of these, and at that size I could store said discs in the fire safe at work.

That could make a great framed piece of art on the wall if you could photograph or get that print in color...

I like to think of my empeg's birthday as being the day I finally got the notification I could order one. I remember it 'cos it had been a Saturday, it way my birthday but I'd been in work since 3am for a code delivery on one of our internal systems, I hadn't got home until 6pm, checked my e-mail and there it was. I ordered it straight away.

Since then I had to have a replacement model due to some solder joint problems but the drive is still the same.

All this means that my player will be 5 years old this Friday. And my birthday treat this year is V2005 at Stafford. Tickets finally arrived yesterday and I'm looking forward to seeing Scissor Sisters live. Oh yeah, and a few other bands.

And, a birthday gift to my empeg. Exactly 5 years and 1 week to the day from first ordering, my empeg was fitted with a safety feature.

Many thanks to Eutronix for supplying the kit, Greenlights for the translucent buttons and andym for installing the lights for me.

Sorry about the picture quality. My hand was a bit shaky and then the battery ran out. I have a orange neon lens, green rotary and top button with the rest of the buttons in red.

Now time to play with some different colour schemes.

Re-reading this thread jerked my memory is it really just over 6 years ago that my life was changed?

Amazing. Happy birthday, Emma the Empeg

The truly amazing thing is that you were downloading via serial! and to think we whinge about 10meg ethernet.

Well had mine 3.5 years now, Its a Mk2a but have no idea when exactly when it was built.

Its still fairly std has a fan in it that gave up 2 years ago, had is drive replaced the day i got it by empeg as it died on the flight over it also got its first mod that day , the capacitor display fix, before i had even turned it on.

It had a partner for a while, had a tuner as well but no longer (traded for images of the queen)

Still going strong.

C.