?Some of you are aware of my guitar fort. Yes, I build a small fort to house a 4x12 cabinet. This fort probably isn't much good for fending off invading Indians or the British, but it does a hell of a job of knocking down the dB of a loud guitar amp.

In fact, I know rely almost entirely on the sound coming out of my studio monitors for guitar recording. This does a lot of great things.

#1 I can crank my amps to kingdom come.

#2 I hear the exact tone being recorded with very little of the real amp's sound actually making it to my ears.

#3 I get to write articles about my fort.

When I realized that I now had a system for recording guitars just like I had always wanted to, it became obvious to me that I could do some real damage. While I was a little concerned about my tubes in my guitar amps, I must say that I was mostly concerned with the ribbon in my Royer R121 microphone and the G12H30 speakers found in my Marshall JCM800 4x12 cabinet.

Like a champ, I decided that I shouldn't worry about blowing up my ribbon or my cabinet. In fact, I reversed the situation. I decided to embrace blowing up the ribbon, the cabinet, the amp, or all 3 at the same time.

Month after month passed and to my disappointment, I was never able to blow anything up. It was actually quite frustrating. I always imagined a person who failed at suicide must feel REALLY depressed. I sort of felt like this myself. (By the way, if you are considering the suicide thing, I recommend that you at least blow a Celestion G12H30 up first).

Anyway, today was a special day. Something happened when we started the guitar session. The guitars sounded amazing!!! Okay, they sounded amazing compared to other guitars I had recorded. If you want to know my secret, start a thread on the forum and I may even give it away.

I mean my guitars were MINDBLOWING. I think they may even been flirting with pro. Of course, my dumb ass will screw them up somehow in mixing, but at least I enjoyed tracking mega powerhouse guitars.

Then, the guitar in the studio monitors nearly died. Hmmm. I looked at the LEDs on my Trident S20 preamp. They were way lower. That meant the problem was either in the preamp or before it. So, I want to the amp. The amp still made sound in the room. I figured my Royer R121 had fallen out of the mic stand. This sort of thing will happen when you sit in front a 4x12 cabinet being blasted from a Rivera Knucklehead on 10. (Yes, the amp was on 10).

It turns out the mic is fine. However, the speaker that I was micing wasn't making any more sound anymore. YES!!! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!