Counting The Beat Music Academy

01/09/2024

Happy fathers day to all the Dad's.

08/08/2024

A new Jensen C12N 12" 8ohm 50 watt speaker arrived this morning for the 1x12" guitar speaker cabinet, the original el cheap speaker was only 10" and the new Jensen is clearer, cleaner and brighter sounding, had to cut the speaker baffle hole 1 3/4" larger, added a speaker input jack to use a seperate speaker cable and converted the cab to a Fender style open back cabinet. This cab will be used with my Marshall Origin 50 amp head, an external speaker for my vintage Roland Cube 40 and an external speaker for my Fender 1964 Champ clone.

10/07/2024

A nice afternoon to be out in the sun getting some guitar practice in after playing drums for 1 1/2 hours before lunch.
Attached a shortened tie down to my free music stand/ guitar stand that wraps around the neck of the guitar a couple of days ago to stop guitars falling off the stand if they accidently get knocked.

05/07/2024

This morning removed the speaker baffle from my speaker cabinet and ironed the hessian baffle cover while still attached to the speaker baffle by lightly spraying the hessian with some water and using the iron set on linen (hottest setting) as there was a few creases in the hessian, this also shrunk the hessian slightly tighten it on the speaker baffle.
I also covered the the black blank off panel I made to fill in the cabinet where the old amplifier mounted into the cabinet with a piece of left over hessian from the speaker baffle.
1st photo is before, 2nd photo is after.

30/06/2024

This morning I had a play with a spare 1x12" speaker cabinet I previously made from an old cheap guitar amp that stopped working, I removed the front metal grill panel, cut out the foam in front of the speaker, that was muffling the speaker, which is glued to the front of the speaker baffle, then covered the speaker baffle with a piece of hessian that was wrapped around a bunch of flowers and screwed on a Fender amplifier badge I made a while ago.
This works well as a 12" external speaker for my Marshall MS2 1 watt 9v battery and 9v power supply practice/travel amplifier. Using the 12" external speaker with this amp makes the amp less plastic sounding and a lot bigger and fuller sounding on both the clean and overdrive channels.

28/06/2024

Too nice of a day to be inside today, so set up my laptop and guitar out in the sun to work on music.

25/06/2024

31/05/2024

A review from one of my banjo and guitar students.

18/05/2024

Revised the logo for all advertising, promotions, and profile pictures.